Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

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

paleontology

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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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 ›
Edaphosaurus pogonias
Photo: Edaphosaurus pogonias, by Jonathan Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
September 8, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Study Debunks Textbook Wisdom on the Evolution of Mammalian Gait

Günter Bechly
September 8, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Paleontology
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In other words: evolutionists make up fancy just-so stories that do not stand up to scrutiny when they are checked with actual empirical data. Read More ›
Archaeopteryx
Photo: Archaeopteryx Berlin specimen, M Jorge Guimaraes via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 18, 2023
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Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

Günter Bechly
August 18, 2023
Evolution, Geology, Paleontology
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Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions. Read More ›
Trilobite_Redlichia
Photo: Trilobite Redlichia, Cambrian of China, Dlloyd via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 11, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

Günter Bechly
August 11, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists. Read More ›
Eozoon
Photo credit: Wilson44691, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
July 21, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace

Günter Bechly
July 21, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
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In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media. Read More ›
trilobite
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
July 12, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Fossil Record Data

Andrew McDiarmid
July 12, 2023
Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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The fossil record is consistent with the engineering-based theory of bounded adaptation Read More ›
Bhimbetka
Photo: <I>Dickinsonia</I>-like pseuodofossil, Bhimbetka cave, Retallack et al. 2021, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
July 7, 2023
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Geology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive

Günter Bechly
July 7, 2023
Geology, Paleontology
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The scientists revisited the site and discovered that the assumed Ediacaran fossils are neither of Ediacaran age nor represent fossils at all. Read More ›
Homo rudolfensis
Photo credit: Gunnar Creutz, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
June 30, 2023
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Homo rudolfensis, Another Contentious Homo

Günter Bechly
June 30, 2023
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Considering the checkered history of grandiose claims and controversies in paleoanthropology, some caution may be wise. 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 ›
Homo naledi
Photo credit: Lee Roger Berger research team, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Casey Luskin
Date
June 7, 2023
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Archaeology
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Scientists Are Skeptical that Intelligence in Homo naledi “Erases Human Exceptionalism”

Casey Luskin
June 7, 2023
Archaeology, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Berger et al.’s claims about the species have been disputed and their idea that it lived 2-3 million years ago was exaggerated by a factor of 10. Read More ›

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