Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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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
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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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
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

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Date
July 4, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Research: Our Brains Float Between Two Phases, Dodging Disorder

Science & Culture
July 4, 2024
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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The good news, according to recent research, is that unsteadiness is the normal state of the human brain. Read More ›
Drosophila melanogaster
Photo: Drosophila melanogaster, by Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Coppedge
Date
May 23, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Fly Flight Is More Sophisticated than Imagined

David Coppedge
May 23, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Biological structures usually appear more complicated up close, and the fly wing is no exception.  Read More ›
T-Rex
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
May 17, 2024
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
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The Wildly Varying Intelligence of T. Rex

Denyse O’Leary
May 17, 2024
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology
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After centuries with the “stupid” label, the big, bad extinct dino was found in one 2023 study to be as smart as a primate. But then… Read More ›
thermometer
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Author
Jonathan McLatchie
Date
February 26, 2024
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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In Its Design, the Body’s Thermostat Resembles Human Technology

Jonathan McLatchie
February 26, 2024
Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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The existence of thermostatic control of our body temperature is not at all surprising supposing life to be the product of a purposeful engineer. Read More ›
Drosophila melanogaster
Photo: Drosophila melanogaster, by Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
February 15, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
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Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin

David Coppedge
February 15, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science
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Don’t swat too quickly! There’s more awe in that little fly than might be apparent from  a cursory glance. Read More ›
brain organoids
Photo credit: Vaccarino Lab, Yale University, via NIH/Flickr (cropped).
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 23, 2024
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

Denyse O’Leary
January 23, 2024
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›
Astrocyte
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 19, 2024
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Life Sciences
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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New Findings About Our Mysterious “Second Brain”

Denyse O’Leary
January 19, 2024
Life Sciences, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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It wasn’t long ago that researchers were hardly aware of the way the digestive system functions as a second brain. The big focus was neurons. Read More ›
consciousness
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 10, 2024
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Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
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Biochemist Begins to Sense Limits of Materialism

Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2024
Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences
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I was somewhat taken aback. What does he mean by the “general nature of life” yielded to scientific analysis? Read More ›
octopus
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 2, 2023
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Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution

Denyse O’Leary
October 2, 2023
Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations? Read More ›
Minding-the-Brain
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Date
September 19, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Psychology
Technology
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New Book: Mind Is More than the Brain

Science & Culture
September 19, 2023
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Psychology, Technology
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Says Gregory Chaitin, algorithmic information theory pioneer: "The mind-body problem lives! A stimulating collection of contemporary perspectives." Read More ›

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