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

Topic

Stuart Burgess

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Tova Levengood
Date
July 14, 2025
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Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
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Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

Tova Levengood
July 14, 2025
Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design
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Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
June 19, 2025
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Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

Andrew McDiarmid
June 19, 2025
Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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I spoke with physicist Dr. Brian Miller about the fruitful research that can result when engineering principles are applied to the study of biological systems. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Chen Wu from Shanghai, China, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
May 8, 2025
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb

Andrew McDiarmid
May 8, 2025
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Giant pandas have an elongated wrist bone, the radial sesamoid, that allows them to handle and eat bamboo with great dexterity. Read More ›
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Photo: Humpback whale, by National Marine Sanctuaries, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
December 4, 2024
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Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The Universal Optimal Design of Vertebrate Limbs

Andrew McDiarmid
December 4, 2024
Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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When we look at feats of human engineering, like vehicles, skyscrapers, and computers, we don’t doubt our intuition that they’re intelligently designed. Read More ›
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
October 27, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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How Evolutionary Fitness Landscapes Bolster Design Arguments

Andrew McDiarmid
October 27, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Imagine a large area with gentle rolling hills and valleys, or perhaps a rugged terrain complete with steep mountains and impassible gullies. Read More ›
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
October 21, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Control Systems in Vertebrate Limbs Further Demonstrate that They Were Designed

Brian Miller
October 21, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Even if one limb suddenly transformed into another, the new limb would prove useless until its control system was entirely reengineered. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Petr Bartacek 186, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
October 16, 2024
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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Stuart Burgess Overturns the Claim that the ACL Is Poorly Designed

Brian Miller
October 16, 2024
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The explanation for ACL injuries is not poor design. Burgess noted in my interview with him that ACL tears were far less frequent in past centuries. Read More ›
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
October 7, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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In Animal Joints, Multi-Functioning Challenges Evolution

Andrew McDiarmid
October 7, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Joints include good examples of irreducible complexity, such as the knee joint’s four bar linkage or the arched structure of the foot. Read More ›
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
September 6, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Fitness Landscapes Demonstrate Perfection in Vertebrate Limbs Resulted from Intelligent Design

Brian Miller
September 6, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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These observations present two dire challenges to undirected evolutionary models. Read More ›
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Author
Brian Miller
Date
September 5, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Developmental Biology of Vertebrate Skeletons Shows Similarities are Better Explained by Design

Brian Miller
September 5, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Evolutionists assume that the traits they classify as homologous share similarities due to their having evolved from a common ancestor. Read More ›

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