Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

Doug Axe
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

Topic

On the Origin of Species

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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
November 27, 2023
Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 27, 2023
Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943)
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Michael Flannery
Date
November 24, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

Michael Flannery
November 24, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered? Read More ›
Wallace's flying frog
Photo: Wallace's flying frog, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Michael Flannery
Date
November 22, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

Michael Flannery
November 22, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology. Read More ›
Taking Leave of Darwin
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Author
Emily Sandico
Date
November 15, 2023
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Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Wisdom Wednesday: Yale Polymath David Gelernter’s Farewell to Darwinism

Emily Sandico
November 15, 2023
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Writes Professor Gelernter, "The origin of species is exactly what Darwin cannot explain." Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
November 14, 2023
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Secrets of the Cell — Behind the Scenes with Michael Behe

Andrew McDiarmid
November 14, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Imagine if Charles Darwin could have peered into one of today’s high-powered microscopes and seen the complexity and function in even the simplest living cells. Read More ›
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David Coppedge
Date
October 23, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Darwinism Needs Laws to Look Scientific; Cronin and Hazen Stand Ready to Serve

David Coppedge
October 23, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Desperate to justify their worldview as legitimate, some Darwinians are making up new “laws of nature” to appear smiling inside the big tent of science. Read More ›
Charnia-masoni
Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
September 21, 2023
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Botany
Evolution
Paleontology
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Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma

Casey Luskin
September 21, 2023
Botany, Evolution, Paleontology
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"It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant." Read More ›
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Author
Michael Flannery
Date
September 12, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

Michael Flannery
September 12, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
August 9, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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The Problem of Pain: Julian Huxley, Magnus Carlsen, and the Meaning of Life

William A. Dembski
August 9, 2023
Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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In a conversation with Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen betrays no sense of empathy for how his view that life is an accident might negatively impact others. Read More ›
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Stephen C. Meyer
Date
July 27, 2023
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Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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What Is Primary: Mind or Matter? 

Stephen C. Meyer
July 27, 2023
Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages. Read More ›

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