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

phylogenetics

gibbon
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Author
Emily Reeves
Date
August 10, 2022
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
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Let’s Do Assumption-Free Science! Some Concluding Thoughts on Gutsick Gibbon’s Challenge

Emily Reeves
August 10, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology
3
What ID proponents are encouraging in the greater scientific community is honesty about the fact that both design and ancestry can create genetic similarity. Read More ›
Erika1
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Author
Emily Reeves
Date
August 5, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Why Their Separate Ancestry Model Is “Wildly Unrealistic”

Emily Reeves
August 5, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
14
On Monday, I will look at the consistency of the phylogenetically informative sites for the Baum et al. (2016) paper. Spoiler alert: It looks like design. Read More ›
Cicada
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
July 22, 2022
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Unknown Cicada from the Cretaceous

Günter Bechly
July 22, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology
4
Only the infusion of new information from outside the system can explain these bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›
silverfish
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
June 24, 2022
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin

Günter Bechly
June 24, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology
3
These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy. Read More ›
fallen tree
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
March 30, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Lukas Ruegger: Homology and Phylogenetics Topple Darwin’s Tree

David Klinghoffer
March 30, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
3
Evolutionists have all the evidence they need in genes and morphology to draw the one true tree of life. Or do they? Read More ›
DNA
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Date
February 22, 2022
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Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Life Sciences
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Will Earth BioGenome Project Vindicate Darwin?

Science & Culture
February 22, 2022
Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Life Sciences
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Compare the latest project to sequence everything to other megaprojects that may or may not answer evolutionary questions. Read More ›
German Shepherd
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Author
Emily Reeves
Date
January 3, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?

Emily Reeves
January 3, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son. Read More ›
Alex Filippenko
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Author
Paul Nelson
Date
November 30, 2020
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Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
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“Our 20th- and 21st-Century Ptolemaic Epicycles”?

Paul Nelson
November 30, 2020
Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics
2
I am fascinated by the philosophy of science parallels to similar moves in molecular phylogenetics and systematics. Read More ›
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Author
Sarah Chaffee
Date
June 24, 2020
Categories
Origin of Life
Science Education
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In the NGSS, a Dogmatic Standard on Evolution

Sarah Chaffee
June 24, 2020
Origin of Life, Science Education
3
Inaccurate teaching about evolution is widespread, as Jonathan Wells’s review of textbooks shows. Read More ›

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