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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Simon Conway Morris

Thomas Aquinas
Image: Thomas Aquinas, via Aquinas.Design.
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Brian Miller
Date
November 30, 2022
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Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
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Attempts to Reconcile Evolutionary Theory with Christianity Lead to Intractable Tensions 

Brian Miller
November 30, 2022
Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science
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The fundamental premise of evolutionary theory is that humans are the product of an undirected process that did not have us in mind. Read More ›
Aquinas
Image: Thomas Aquinas, via Aquinas.Design.
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Brian Miller
Date
November 16, 2022
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Cosmology
Ecology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design

Brian Miller
November 16, 2022
Cosmology, Ecology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.” Read More ›
Nectocaris
Photo credit: Martin R. Smith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
September 2, 2022
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Biology
Paleontology
Science
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Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

Günter Bechly
September 2, 2022
Biology, Paleontology, Science
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Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›
Makarkinia
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 12, 2022
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Paleontology
Science
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Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike

Günter Bechly
August 12, 2022
Paleontology, Science
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An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Read More ›
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata, an Edicaran organism, by Masahiro miyasaka / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).
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David Klinghoffer
Date
March 16, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Lukas Ruegger on the “Ediacaran Explosion”— No Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle

David Klinghoffer
March 16, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Ruegger is the personable new intelligent design “explainer” whose videos take an approach similar to Khan Academy’s, but better. Read More ›
Short-beaked echidna
Photo: Short-beaked echidna, by Gunjan Pandey, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Jonathan Wells
Date
February 11, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
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Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Homology

Jonathan Wells
February 11, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences
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The spines of Australian echidnas and North American porcupines are remarkably similar. Read More ›
Spriggina
Photo: Spriggina, by Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Casey Luskin
Date
December 23, 2021
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Was Spriggina an Evolutionary Ancestor of Arthropods?

Casey Luskin
December 23, 2021
Evolution, Paleontology
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For those wedded to an evolutionary interpretation of life’s history, the fossil and genetic evidence leave the origin of arthropods a major mystery.  Read More ›
jellyfish
Photo credit: Timo Volz via Unsplash.
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Casey Luskin
Date
October 12, 2020
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Biology
Intelligent Design
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Repentant Biology Journal Offers a Weak Rebuttal to Its Own Pro-ID Fine-Tuning Paper

Casey Luskin
October 12, 2020
Biology, Intelligent Design
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The authors close by quoting Carl Sagan’s famous adage that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Do they offer that kind of evidence? Read More ›
Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata
Photo: Dorsal mold of Kimberella quadrata from the Ediacaran of Russia,
showing the cuticular dorsal shield with tubercular nodes and the tapered oral end; by Aleksey Nagovitsyn: Wikimedia, GNU FDL).
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Günter Bechly
Date
September 18, 2020
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Evolution
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Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis

Günter Bechly
September 18, 2020
Evolution
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It is remarkable, indeed, how detailed a medusoid morphology was projected onto Kimberella fossils and later recognized as pure fantasy. Read More ›
Ernst_Mayr_PLoS 2
Photo: Ernst Mayr, by University of Konstanz / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).
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Robert F. Shedinger
Date
August 8, 2020
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Biology
Evolution
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Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution

Robert Shedinger
August 8, 2020
Biology, Evolution
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Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence. Read More ›

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