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

Topic

Paul Davies

Steven Weinberg
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Paul Nelson
Date
August 14, 2023
Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
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John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”

Paul Nelson
August 14, 2023
Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences
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“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began." Read More ›
swimmer
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Neil Thomas
Date
January 19, 2023
Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Science
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On the Miracles of Physiological Design

Neil Thomas
January 19, 2023
Anatomy, Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science
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The book under review is a splendid and uniquely well-informed contribution to the debate about what is by all indices a theory in possibly terminal crisis. Read More ›
bullseye
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William A. Dembski
Date
June 28, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Jason Rosenhouse and Specified Complexity

William A. Dembski
June 28, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Not all patterns eliminate chance in the presence of improbability. Take an arrow shot at a target. Read More ›
Earth by NOAA
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
May 20, 2022
Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
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In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

Neil Thomas
May 20, 2022
Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences
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In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Read More ›
Fermi Spirograph
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Date
March 30, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe

Science & Culture
March 30, 2022
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Richard Feynman called 1/137, the fine structure constant, “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man.” Read More ›
multiverse
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Stephen C. Meyer
Date
March 28, 2022
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Anthropic Fine-Tuning as Evidence of Design

Stephen C. Meyer
March 28, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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The multiverse concept posits the existence of many other universes, each with different sets of physical parameters. Read More ›
Spider-Man
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
January 4, 2022
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Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Spider-Man, the Multiverse, and Intelligent Design

Casey Luskin
January 4, 2022
Bioethics, Physical Sciences, Physics
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In the new Spider-Man movie, the multiverse not only makes an appearance but plays a crucial role in the plot. Read More ›
sun
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
December 9, 2021
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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Nothing New Under the Sun

Neil Thomas
December 9, 2021
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions. Read More ›
Darwin statue
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
November 12, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Intelligent Design and Natural Theology

Neil Thomas
November 12, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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How just is the imputation of “neo-creationist” tendencies to members of the intelligent design community? Read More ›
Charles Darwin
throne
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
November 10, 2021
Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Paleontology
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Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

Neil Thomas
November 10, 2021
Chemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Paleontology
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Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›

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