Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY 4.0)
Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
Photo courtesy of Celeste Behe.
David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
Photo provided by David Coppedge.
William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Photo courtesy of Stephen Iacoboni
David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
Carl Linnaeus
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Photo provided by Katja Deborah Lönnig
Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Andrew McDiarmid
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
Photo by Chris Morgan, © Discovery Institute
Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Topic

Neo-Darwinism

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Photo: Littorina littorea, by Paul Morris from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Coppedge
Date
February 14, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Rescuing Chance for Darwinism

David Coppedge
February 14, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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When papers claim that Darwinism works by selecting unspecified and unplanned variations, do their best empirically studied examples demonstrate it? Read More ›
Thalassocnus natans
Photo: Thalassocnus natans, by FunkMonk, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
February 9, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Chronospecies, a Sinking Ship

Günter Bechly
February 9, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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The concept of chronospecies in paleontology was introduced by George (1956) for the naming of successive species in a single evolving lineage. Read More ›
John West
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David Klinghoffer
Date
January 29, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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From Political Scientist John West: Intelligent Design’s Reverse Chameleon-ism

David Klinghoffer
January 29, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Our colleague John West has a handsome new website with many useful features, but I was particularly intrigued by the section headed, “Something Personal.” Read More ›
Insectivora
Photo: Pholidocercus, Oilshale via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED.
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Günter Bechly
Date
January 26, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals

Günter Bechly
January 26, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
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We can conclude that Eulipotyphla appeared abruptly in the Paleocene about 66-61.7 million years ago. Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
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Casey Luskin
Date
December 28, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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No. 5 Story of 2023: Peer-Reviewed Paper Finds “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”

Casey Luskin
December 28, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.” Read More ›
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Photo: Ichthyosaur vertebra, Liassic Germany, by G. Bechly.
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Günter Bechly
Date
November 3, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Triassic Kraken Hypothesis Provoked Scornful Darwinist Revenge

Günter Bechly
November 3, 2023
Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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Instead of a reasonable and fair scientific debate, McMenamin’s hypothesis has been ridiculed by other scientists and science journalists. Read More ›
Sauropods
Photo: Skeletal Reconstruction of <I>Mamenchisaurus youngi</I>, though other sources speak of the very closely related <I>Omeisaurus</I>, in the Dinosaur Museum of Zigong, by Einar Fredriksen, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Date
June 28, 2023
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Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Long Necks in Sauropod Dinosaurs — By Neo-Darwinism or Intelligent Design?

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
June 28, 2023
Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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The origin of the ingeniously intricate long necks in sauropod dinosaurs has been postulated to have arisen more than 35 times independently. Read More ›
granules of urea
Photo: Granules of urea, by LHcheM, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
June 20, 2023
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Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2023
Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Read More ›
E. coli bacteria
Photo: E. coli bacteria, living a better life, by Eric Erbe, digital colorization by Christopher Pooley, both of USDA, ARS, EMU., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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June 2, 2023
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Biology
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Engineering and Evolution in the Microbial World

Science and Culture
June 2, 2023
Biology, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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This year’s Conference on Engineering in Living Systems (CELS) is going on right now, exploring design principles at work in living things. Read More ›
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Photo: Gerhard Mickoleit, by Günter Bechly.
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Günter Bechly
Date
May 3, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit 

Günter Bechly
May 3, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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