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 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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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

Topic

Stephen Jay Gould

trilobite
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Author
Jonathan Wells
Date
May 10, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
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Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Fossils

Jonathan Wells
May 10, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Paleontology
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The abruptness seen in the Cambrian explosion can also be seen on smaller scales throughout the fossil record. Read More ›
trilobite
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
March 16, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Cites Stephen Meyer to Critique Darwinian Evolution

Casey Luskin
March 16, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
6
"Many life forms with essentially new body types appeared quickly and without precursors in the Burgess Shale in Kicking Horse Valley in British Columbia." 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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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
December 1, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›
homo erectus
human origins
Photo: Skull fragment, Homo erectus, by Commie cretan (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
October 24, 2022
Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature

Casey Luskin
October 24, 2022
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
5
Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity. Read More ›
Curiosity rover
Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
August 29, 2022
Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Planetology
Rare Earth
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Rare Earth: How Vital Minerals “Evolve”

David Coppedge
August 29, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Planetology, Rare Earth
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It's intriguing that life as we know it depends on a seemingly un-natural distribution of minerals. Read More ›
Makarkinia
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.
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Author
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 ›
Mother Earth
Image: Mother Earth, by Glyptothek, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
July 14, 2022
Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
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Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

Neil Thomas
July 14, 2022
Evolution, Faith & Science
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When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›
consciousness
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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
June 29, 2022
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?

Michael Egnor
June 29, 2022
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness. Read More ›
Dave Farina
Photo: "Professor Dave," via YouTube (screen shot, fair use).
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
May 27, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Fact-Checking “Professor Dave”: Is the Term “Darwinism” Really Used Only by “Creationists”?

Günter Bechly
May 27, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
5
As this nonsense is so often found in Internet forums, I here provide the peer-reviewed scientific evidence to put the point to rest once and for all. Read More ›
Fire use
fire
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Author
Michael Denton
Date
May 24, 2022
Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Technology
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Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire

Michael Denton
May 24, 2022
Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Technology
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Only a special type of being very close to our own biological design could have taken the first and vital step to technological enlightenment, fire-making. Read More ›

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