Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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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

theism

spiral-galaxy
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post
Date
March 22, 2025
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism?

Science & Culture
March 22, 2025
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
2
Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life. Read More ›
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
March 15, 2025
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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The Growing Evidence of Earth’s Privilege

Andrew McDiarmid
March 15, 2025
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
2
Astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez begins a two-part conversation with host Casey Luskin. Read More ›
cosmos
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit.
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
March 5, 2025
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Physicist Brian Miller on All the Levels of Fine-Tuning: “Somebody Knew You Were Coming”

David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
2
Dr. Miller gave a concise summary of the evidence of fine-tuning, from the cosmic scale down to the planetary and the environmental, finally to the biological. Read More ›
Bayes'-Theorem
Photo: Bayes' Theorem, by mattbuck (category) / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).
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post
Author
Jonathan McLatchie
Date
February 11, 2025
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

Jonathan McLatchie
February 11, 2025
Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
4
Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Read More ›
Calvin_Chapel_and_Hiemenga_Hall
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post
Author
John G. West
Date
February 4, 2025
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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The Slippery Slope of Theistic Darwinism: The Sad Cases of Howard Van Till and Karl Giberson

John G. West
February 4, 2025
Evolution, Faith & Science
4
After retiring from Calvin, Howard Van Till evolved well beyond Christianity. Indeed, he eventually evolved beyond theism. Read More ›
The-God-Proofs
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
November 23, 2024
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
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New Graphic Novel: Three Lines of Evidence for God

Andrew McDiarmid
November 23, 2024
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology
3
Two friends embark on an epic journey to tackle the ultimate mystery: does God exist? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Magnus Norden, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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post
Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
November 11, 2024
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
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Atheist Richard Dawkins: Intelligent Design Is a “Scientific Hypothesis,” Though Mistaken

David Klinghoffer
November 11, 2024
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics
3
This is a remarkable response, granting the premise of arguments for intelligent design like those of Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
October 28, 2024
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Arts
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
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An Artist Talks with Dembski about Intelligent Design

David Klinghoffer
October 28, 2024
Arts, Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Karen Wong began thinking about the “specified qualities that show up in art” and how “those qualities also show up everywhere else in the universe.” Read More ›
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Author
Thomas E. Woodward
Date
October 10, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Postcard from Santiago: Intelligent Design in Chile

Thomas E. Woodward
October 10, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
2
Our class expanded to several hundred in our all-Saturday conference, as I was joined by Dr. Ricardo Bravo, a top Chilean oceanographer. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
September 17, 2024
Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science Reporting
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Weaponizing Science: Accused Trump Gunman Cited “Natural Selection”

David Klinghoffer
September 17, 2024
Bioethics, Evolution, Science Reporting
2
The ethos that would most logically come from recognizing the design in life, every life, is the very opposite of what you'd expect from Darwinism. Read More ›

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