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 Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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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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Carl Linnaeus
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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

physical constants

NGC-1514
Phot credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Ressler (NASA-JPL), Dave Jones (IAC).
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Author
Elie Feder
Date
April 24, 2025
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Is the Multiverse Real?

Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
April 24, 2025
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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Despite its various iterations, few philosophers or scientists had taken the multiverse seriously — until 1998. Read More ›
GMT029_06_47_Don Pettit_OST FWD dragon
Photo credit: NASA/Don Pettit.
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
February 27, 2025
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Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Michael Kent: “12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design” 

Granville Sewell
February 27, 2025
Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Michael Kent is a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and a recently retired bio-scientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Read More ›
Bayes'-Theorem
Photo: Bayes' Theorem, by mattbuck (category) / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
February 11, 2025
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Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

Jonathan McLatchie
February 11, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
4
Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Read More ›
multiverse
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Brian Miller
Date
January 24, 2025
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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Physics
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The Multiverse Has a Measure Problem

Brian Miller
January 24, 2025
Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences, Physics
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In terms of science, the central problem with the naïve multiverse is that it could explain any observation, so it really explains nothing. Read More ›
Jupiter
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran.
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Author
Elie Feder
Date
August 20, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 20, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes). Read More ›
moon
Photo credit: NASA.
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Author
Elie Feder
Date
August 19, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Examining the Fine-Tuning Argument by Elimination

Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 19, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
4
In his article “Has the Multiverse Replaced God?” William Lane Craig presents the fine-tuning argument using the process of elimination. Read More ›
Multiverse
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Date
March 24, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Is the Multiverse Scientific Fact or Mere Fancy?

Science and Culture
March 24, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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Host Robert Lawrence Kuhn asked Professor of Christian Philosophy Nancey Murphy if, in her view, the universe is fine-tuned for consciousness. Read More ›
Buzz-Aldrin
Photo: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, 1969, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Granville Sewell
Date
March 1, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
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Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Granville Sewell
March 1, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology
12
This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Read More ›
Apollo 17
Photo credit: Apollo 17/NASA.
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
January 15, 2024
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Chemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
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“All Things Are Ordered to Their End” 

Stephen J. Iacoboni
January 15, 2024
Chemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics
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In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Read More ›
primordial soup
Image credit: anokarina, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
September 20, 2023
Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
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Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

William A. Dembski
September 20, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life
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This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›

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