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

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Plato

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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
March 24, 2025
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Jonathan Wells and the “Unknown Unknowns”

David Klinghoffer
March 24, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Richard Sternberg regretted, citing Plato, that “words are very poor containers for what one wants to say” about a friend like Jonathan. Read More ›
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Peter Biles
Date
December 24, 2024
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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For Christmas, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe

Peter Biles
December 24, 2024
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›
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Photo: Bust of Epicurus, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Neil Thomas
Date
December 23, 2024
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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Three Thousand Years of Darwinism

Neil Thomas
December 23, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science
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I began to suspect that Darwinism was being taught at school in a somewhat philosophically decontextualized way, lacking historical background. Read More ›
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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
December 17, 2024
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Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

Michael Egnor
December 17, 2024
Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Read More ›
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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
November 21, 2024
Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Do We Need Language to Think?

Denyse O’Leary
November 21, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
Date
August 19, 2024
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Bioethics
Medicine
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Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

Richard Weikart
August 19, 2024
Bioethics, Medicine
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Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome. Read More ›
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Daniel Witt
Date
August 15, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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An Evolutionary Theorist Plays with Words; Let’s See How Far It Gets Him

Daniel Witt
August 15, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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Francis Heylighen’s “ontology of relational agency” starts with an interesting observation. Read More ›
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
July 16, 2024
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Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
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On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation

Neil Thomas
July 16, 2024
Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences
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The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset, Read More ›
Charles Darwin
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
June 10, 2024
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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Why Has Darwin Been Believed? 

Neil Thomas
June 10, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science
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By the later 1830s educated people in England and far beyond its borders had experienced some truly convulsive existential tremors beneath their feet. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
June 5, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
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Persecution and the Art of “Darwinist” Writing

David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom
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The “right kind of reader” will take the hint and absorb the “esoteric” meaning. Read More ›

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