Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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purpose

DNA
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post
Author
Emily Reeves
Date
March 3, 2022
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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How Intelligent Design Clarifies Biological Redundancy

Emily Reeves
March 3, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
4
ID licenses scientists to be curious about non-conserved biological redundancy and to investigate the possibility that biological redundancy is purposeful. Read More ›
Plos_wilson
Photo: E. O. Wilson, by Jim Harrison, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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post
Author
Richard Weikart
Date
January 4, 2022
Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ecology
Ethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Remembering E. O. Wilson and Sociobiology 

Richard Weikart
January 4, 2022
Bioethics, Biology, Ecology, Ethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
8
"Wilson is — if his worldview is correct — just as much living a lie as those religionists that he castigates." Read More ›
fear
Photo credit: Aarón Blanco Tejedor, via Unsplash.
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post
Date
January 3, 2022
Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design

Science and Culture
January 3, 2022
Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
2
What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors? Read More ›
Andrew Klavan
Photo: Andrew Klavan, by Embutler, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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post
Date
November 21, 2021
Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Klavan and Meyer on God and Science

Science and Culture
November 21, 2021
Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics
2
The pair touch on the Judeo-Christian roots of science, how fine-tuning in physics and cosmology point to intelligent design, and more. Read More ›
bedtime story
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post
Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
August 4, 2021
Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Physics
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From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists

David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021
Biology, Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences, Physics
5
The upshot of the best modern biology and cosmology can be epitomized by changing just one word in physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous comment. Read More ›
diatom
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Date
August 4, 2021
Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus

Science and Culture
August 4, 2021
Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
9
The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like little modernist cathedrals. Read More ›
eye
Photo credit: v2osk via Unsplash.
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post
Author
Michael Behe
Date
June 10, 2021
Categories
Intelligent Design
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Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”

Michael Behe
June 10, 2021
Intelligent Design
4
A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).
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post
Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
June 4, 2021
Categories
Bioethics
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Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later

David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2021
Bioethics
4
Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
ribosome scultupres
ribosome
Photo: "Ribosome Sculptures," New York Hall of Science, Ryan Somma via Flickr (cropped).
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post
Date
April 12, 2021
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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A Tweet Representing the Core Challenge We Face

Science and Culture
April 12, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
1
Christian Landry is the Principal Investigator of a lab at Laval University in Quebec, doing really interesting work on cellular networks. Read More ›
Brian Keating
Photo: Brian Keating, by Brucelieberman, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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post
Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
March 30, 2021
Categories
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
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Meyer, Keating: Why Was the Object of Creation So Long in Coming? And Other Good Questions

David Klinghoffer
March 30, 2021
Cosmology, Physical Sciences
3
I listened in the car on my way to and from a funeral. Obviously, the end of life, like its beginning, is an occasion for pondering ultimate questions. Read More ›

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