Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

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

teleology

skating
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Author
Paul Nelson
Date
March 31, 2023
Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
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Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

Paul Nelson
March 31, 2023
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Social Sciences
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Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Read More ›
Icefish
Photo credit: (c) Marrabbio2, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
March 27, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
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Scientific Paper Argues Antarctic Icefish “Designed to Utilize Hemoglobinless Blood”

Casey Luskin
March 27, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science
4
“Proponents of intelligent design see customizations to decrease blood viscosity as examples of teleology in biology.” Read More ›
Thomas Aquinas
Image: Thomas Aquinas, via Aquinas.Design.
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Author
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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Author
Brian Miller
Date
November 16, 2022
Categories
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 ›
twins
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Author
Cornelius Hunter
Date
November 14, 2022
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Life Sciences
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Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory

Cornelius Hunter
November 14, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Life Sciences
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Epigenetic mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology. Because of epigenetics, organisms with otherwise identical genes (e.g., twins) can be quite different. Read More ›
sockeye salmon
Photo: Sockeye salmon, by Milton Love, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
November 2, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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A Closer Look at the Science of Purpose

Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 2, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
4
You cannot see what you are not looking for. You cannot find Br'er Rabbit until you look into the briar patch. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).
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Date
September 24, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Listen: Darwin Returns from the Future

Science & Culture
September 24, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Nickell John Romjue’s time-traveling Darwin returns to his family home and offers some final reflections on his eye-opening visit to the 21st century. Read More ›
earth
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
August 5, 2022
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Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Technology
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Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives

David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2022
Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Technology
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Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did. Read More ›
Earth by NOAA
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
May 20, 2022
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Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
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In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

Neil Thomas
May 20, 2022
Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences
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In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Read More ›
Ernst Haeckel
Photo: Statue of Ernst Haeckel, Chemnitz, Saxony, by André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
March 22, 2022
Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
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As Many Opinions as There Are Men?

Neil Thomas
March 22, 2022
Evolution, Faith & Science
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The ideas of Ernst Haeckel, in his youth a hardline Darwinian materialist, were to evolve to a surprising degree. Read More ›

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