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

Topic

rationality

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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
November 10, 2020
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Evolutionary Psychology
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Empathy — The Foundation of Human Exceptionalism?

David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2020
Evolutionary Psychology, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
4
If I gave you 15 seconds you could come up with a pat evolutionary just-so story to account for this, speculating on what reproductive advantage it serves. Read More ›
I Voted
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Date
November 3, 2020
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Faith & Science
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A Contest More Consequential than a U.S. Election? Yes! John Lennox Explains

Science & Culture
November 3, 2020
Faith & Science
2
Lennox tells about discovering the damage an atheist worldview does. He saw it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe, and he saw what it does to rationality. Read More ›
Lennox Against the Tide
Photo: John Lennox in Against the Tide.
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
October 23, 2020
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Faith & Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
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Against the Tide: Oxford’s John Lennox Describes Kinship with C. S. Lewis

David Klinghoffer
October 23, 2020
Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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"I owe him an immense amount because although he wasn’t a scientist, he understood science. He understood the implications and the philosophy of science." Read More ›
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Photo: Clouds of Jupiter, by Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA)/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS.
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Author
John Lennox
Date
July 17, 2020
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Faith & Science
Mathematics
Scientific Reasoning
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Why Science and Atheism Don’t Mix

John Lennox
July 17, 2020
Faith & Science, Mathematics, Scientific Reasoning
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Physicist John Polkinghorne says that the reduction of mental events to physics and chemistry destroys meaning. Read More ›
David Hume
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Date
November 28, 2018
Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
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Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

Science & Culture
November 28, 2018
Biology, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning
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Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›
David Berlinski
Photo: David Berlinski, “Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions,” via YouTube/Hoover Institution.
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
November 2, 2018
Categories
Evolution
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Listen: Berlinski on the Limits of Rational Discourse

David Klinghoffer
November 2, 2018
Evolution
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I asked David Berlinski and Michael Denton what they thought was the nub of intellectual difference between a thoughtful Darwkin skeptic and a thoughtful Darwin loyalist. Read More ›
chocolate sundae
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
October 22, 2018
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Neuroscience & Mind
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To Refute Materialism, Consider a Chocolate Sundae

David Klinghoffer
October 22, 2018
Neuroscience & Mind
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Either a mind through free will alone may cause scientifically measurable change in the physical world, or we are forced back to embrace blather. Read More ›
Columbia River
Photo credit: Columbia River, by Sarah McDevitt, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 26, 2018
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Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
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For Rivers, a “Right to Flow”?

Wesley J. Smith
August 26, 2018
Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism
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Most media with which I interact on this issue assume that advocating personhood for nature must be a fringe meme. Read More ›
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 21, 2018
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Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
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When Horses Sue

Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2018
Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism
4
“Animal standing” would open the courts to lawsuits brought by animals. Read More ›
tree-person-2
Photo: Human person rescues cat person stuck in tree person, by Uschi_Du, via Pixabay.
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 16, 2018
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Bioethics
Botany
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No, Trees Are Not People Too

Wesley J. Smith
April 16, 2018
Bioethics, Botany
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Novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts, in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too. Read More ›

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