Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

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

Tree of Life

bacteria
Photo credit: NIAID, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Paul Nelson
Date
August 15, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?

Paul Nelson
August 15, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences. Read More ›
dawkins-test-tree-of-life
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Author
Jonathan Witt
Date
May 17, 2023
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Astronomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer: Intelligent Design

Jonathan Witt
May 17, 2023
Astronomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
2
Dr. Luskin details the various ways that the rapidly developing field of phylogenomics is uncovering data that powerfully fits the ID model of life’s history. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin
Date
May 15, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

Casey Luskin
May 15, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›
Jonathan Welsl DiscoveryU
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
May 4, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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New DiscoveryU Course: Jonathan Wells Takes an Objective Look at the Evidence for Evolution

David Klinghoffer
May 4, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
2
The notion that knowledge must reject mind as a casual factor in origins studies is a materialist presumption — not science. Read More ›
horned lizard
Photo: A horned lizard, by Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Paul Nelson
Date
March 6, 2023
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
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A Good Example of Evolutionary Use of Extremely Small Probability Singularities

Paul Nelson
March 6, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life
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How can you be certain, for instance, that you, horned lizards, and brook trout share a common chordate ancestor? Read More ›
Xiaotingia
Photo: Xiaotingia, by Bruce McAdam, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
August 19, 2022
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Paleontology
Science
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Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

Günter Bechly
August 19, 2022
Paleontology, Science
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Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›
dependency graph
Image: A dependency graph, by c4ristian, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Emily Reeves
Date
August 9, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Yes, Winston Ewert’s Dependency Graph Is a Real Model

Emily Reeves
August 9, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
5
The fact that known natural biological processes can produce non-tree-like patterns is problematic not for ID proponents but for proponents of common ancestry. Read More ›
Hoatzin
Photo credit: Kate from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
July 18, 2022
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Evolution
Paleontology
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“Bizarre Bird” Highlights the Problem of Biogeography

David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology
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While hoatzins are bad at flying, evolutionists have been forced to credit these birds with some impressive rafting — unbelievably impressive. Read More ›
elephant shrew
Photo: A round-eared elephant shrew, by Vassil, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
June 2, 2022
Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Study: “Most of Our Evolutionary Trees Could Be Wrong”

Günter Bechly
June 2, 2022
Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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This refutes one of the favorite talking points of popularizers of Darwinism like Richard Dawkins. Read More ›
forest for the trees
Nathan Lents
Photo credit: Matt B., via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
Mike Keas
Date
May 27, 2022
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
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Troubles with the Tree of Life

Mike Keas and Paul Nelson
May 27, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science
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Sixty years ago, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn listed what he described as the “symptoms” of a research field undergoing destabilizing change. Read More ›

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