Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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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

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University of Tübingen

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Date
July 16, 2026
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Design Concepts: Interoception Is a Match for Proprioception

Science & Culture
July 16, 2026
Intelligent Design, Medicine
2
The take-home point is surely this: Our bodies have all sorts of ways of giving us information that do not run through our senses. Read More ›
Kayentatherium_wellesi
Photo credit: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
July 5, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Time Wanderers Debunk Popular Scenario of Mammalian Evolution

Günter Bechly
July 5, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
12
The crude Darwinist presumption of more advanced descendants outcompeting their primitive ancestors turned out to be wrong once again. Read More ›
ravens
Photo: Common ravens, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 10, 2023
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Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Our Ancestors Are Evolving, Just to Keep Up!

Denyse O’Leary
July 10, 2023
Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
4
Negative biases about our forebears have long been part of science, education, and popular culture. Why? Read More ›
Homo rudolfensis
Photo credit: Gunnar Creutz, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
June 30, 2023
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Homo rudolfensis, Another Contentious Homo

Günter Bechly
June 30, 2023
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Considering the checkered history of grandiose claims and controversies in paleoanthropology, some caution may be wise. Read More ›
Neanderthal Musuem
Photo: Neanderthal Musuem, Germany, by Clemens Vasters, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
June 17, 2023
Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
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Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar

Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2023
Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology
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The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent. Read More ›
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Photo: Gerhard Mickoleit, by Günter Bechly.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
May 3, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
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Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit 

Günter Bechly
May 3, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
2
He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›
Ardipithecus ramidus
Photo: Ardipithecus ramidus, by Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
October 25, 2022
Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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The Standard Story of Human Evolution: A Critical Look

Casey Luskin
October 25, 2022
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Whatever Ardi was, everyone agrees the fossils was initially badly crushed and needed extensive reconstruction. Read More ›
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
September 20, 2022
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Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism

David Coppedge
September 20, 2022
Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically. 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 ›
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Photo credit: Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig.
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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Date
January 10, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
January 10, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
3
All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›

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