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

South Africa

Brian Miller in Africa
All photos courtesy of Casey Luskin.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
October 11, 2023
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Discovery Institute Speakers Get a Hearty Reception in Africa

Casey Luskin
October 11, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
5
At the University of Eldoret, in Kenya, we were greeted with — no joke — a band and a red carpet. Read More ›
Mammoth
Image credit: Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Rob Sheldon
Date
April 5, 2023
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Ecology
Evolution
Paleontology
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Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Rob Sheldon
April 5, 2023
Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology
6
The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
March 15, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Peer-Reviewed Paper: “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”

Casey Luskin
March 15, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
6
They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.” Read More ›
giraffe
Photo credit: Ryan Louderback via Unsplash.
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Author
Jonathan Witt
Date
March 13, 2023
Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

Jonathan Witt
March 13, 2023
Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
10
The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›
Australopithecus-africanus
Photo: Skull of "Mrs. Ples," by José Braga; Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Date
March 3, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Casey Luskin Debunks a Museum’s Evolutionary Propaganda

Science & Culture
March 3, 2023
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
2
Luskin and host Eric Anderson call evolutionary theory to task for being overly supple, offering just-so stories to explain a behavior AND its opposite. Read More ›
Homo_naledi_foot 2
Photo: Foot of Homo naledi, by Lee Roger Berger research team [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Date
February 15, 2023
Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
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New Book from South Africa Explores Evidence of Intelligent Design

Science & Culture
February 15, 2023
Evolutionary Psychology, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design
1
Casey Luskin earned his PhD in South Africa and had many opportunities to study various hominid fossils. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Miroslaw Miras, via Pixabay.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
February 13, 2023
Categories
Biology
Engineering
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Psychology
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New Open-Access Book from South Africa Explores Intelligent Design and Science-Faith Issues

Casey Luskin
February 13, 2023
Biology, Engineering, Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Psychology
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We’ll feature excerpts here in the future, but for now I’d like to highlight some special features of chapters in the book. Read More ›
Homo_sapiens_neanderthalensis-Mr._N
Image credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 12, 2022
Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science
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Early Humans Were More Sophisticated than We Thought

Denyse O’Leary
December 12, 2022
Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science
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Neanderthals were not just downing raw hunks of meat 70,000 years ago, as many of us have assumed. Read More ›
Homo_naledi_foot 2
Photo: Foot of Homo naledi, by Lee Roger Berger research team [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
October 27, 2022
Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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The Human Fossil Record Lacks Intermediaries

Casey Luskin
October 27, 2022
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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The news media might be heavily biased toward evolution, but at least it is predictable. Read More ›
academia
Photo credit: Abhijitsathe, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
August 18, 2022
Categories
Bioethics
Culture
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Big Science Is the Toxic Spoiled Brat of Academic Life

David Klinghoffer
August 18, 2022
Bioethics, Culture
4
The scheme has a name, a blandly harmless-sounding one. It’s called “indirect costs.” Read More ›

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