Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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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

Plato’s Revenge

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David Klinghoffer
Date
August 25, 2025
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Faith & Science
Genetics
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The Genome and the Bible — An Analogy

David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2025
Faith & Science, Genetics
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Richard Sternberg recounts his high hopes, shared with others at the NIH, that the Human Genome Project would reveal the hidden secrets of the human body. Read More ›
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Photo: The perfect solar eclipse of 1919, by ESO/Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl/F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, & C. Davidson, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Klinghoffer
Date
August 6, 2025
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Astronomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2025
Astronomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
July 30, 2025
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Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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With Sydney Sweeney’s “Great Genes,” Plato Exacts His Revenge

David Klinghoffer
July 30, 2025
Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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If I had no sense of humor whatsoever about the whole thing, I would point out that the nature of “genes” is the subject of a fascinating scientific dispute. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
July 24, 2025
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Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
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As Luskin Debunks 1 Percent Myth, Evolutionists Fire Wildly in Response

David Klinghoffer
July 24, 2025
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design
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The myth matters because a toxic lie being advanced in our culture denies the exceptional status of human beings in nature. Many evils follow from that denial. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
June 22, 2025
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Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Memo to the Smithsonian

David Klinghoffer
June 22, 2025
Cultural Anthropology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
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We are trying to bring some reasonable pressure to bear on the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and its scientifically inaccurate displays. Read More ›
Richard-Sternberg
Photo: Richard Sternberg, via Science Uprising.
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David Klinghoffer
Date
June 16, 2025
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
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A Diffident Revolutionary

David Klinghoffer
June 16, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning
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In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
June 12, 2025
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

David Klinghoffer
June 12, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Read More ›
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Happy father having fun while playing with his small son at home.
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Michael Egnor
Date
June 12, 2025
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Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done

Michael Egnor
June 12, 2025
Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
June 11, 2025
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Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Jonathan Wells Cleared the Ground for Intelligent Design

Andrew McDiarmid
June 11, 2025
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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He had a sense of the immateriality of the genome, much like that of his friend Richard Sternberg. Read More ›
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Image: Plato and Aristotle, by Raphael, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Klinghoffer
Date
June 10, 2025
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
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Sternberg and Egnor Reveal the Immaterial Realm

David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2025
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning
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This kind of thinking is also on the horizon coming from biologists like Michael Levin unconnected to the ID community. Read More ›

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