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

Topic

vertebrates

Hesperornis skeleton
Photo: Hesperornis skeleton, Ghedoghedo via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
January 5, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds

Günter Bechly
January 5, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
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Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›
ear
Photo credit: Jaee Kim via Unsplash.
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Author
Jonathan McLatchie
Date
November 30, 2023
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Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

Jonathan McLatchie
November 30, 2023
Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Date
November 28, 2023
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Evolution
Medicine
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Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 28, 2023
Evolution, Medicine
5
Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.” Read More ›
Keichousaurus_hui_fossil
Photo credit: Ninjatacoshell, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
October 13, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

Günter Bechly
October 13, 2023
Intelligent Design, Paleontology
7
The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Read More ›
Chameleon eye
Photo credit: Umberto Salvagnin from Italy, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
September 20, 2023
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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Chameleon Vision — A Unique Marvel of Design

Günter Bechly
September 20, 2023
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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A few days ago, my kids and I visited the wonderful tropical aquarium and zoo Haus des Meeres (House of the Sea) in Vienna. Read More ›
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Jonathan McLatchie
Date
August 24, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Why the Blood Clotting Cascade Challenges Evolution

Jonathan McLatchie
August 24, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The coagulation cascade cannot evolve unless there is simultaneously a mechanism in hand for controlling it. Both would have to arise at the same time. Read More ›
brain
Photo credit: U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Jason Couillard.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
August 24, 2023
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Linguistics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Right Brain Vs. Left Brain? It’s Murky

Denyse O’Leary
August 24, 2023
Linguistics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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Vertebrates generally have brains divided into two lobes, an arrangement that may go back half a billion years. Read More ›
Megasiphon thylakos
Photo: Megasiphon thylakos holotype, after Fig. 2 in Nanglu et al. 2023, fair use.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
August 4, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

Günter Bechly
August 4, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
4
Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life. Read More ›
tullymonster
Photo credit: U.S. Department of Energy from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
May 5, 2023
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster

Günter Bechly
May 5, 2023
Evolution, Paleontology
4
How much confidence should we really place in dubious fossil evidence when it is boldly claimed to prove Darwinian evolution as a fact? Read More ›
chicken embryo
embryonic development
Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
David Swift
Date
March 30, 2023
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Evolution
Life Sciences
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Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

David Swift
March 30, 2023
Evolution, Life Sciences
6
Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer? Read More ›

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