Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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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
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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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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Topic

whales

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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
February 8, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Khan Academy Video, “Evidence for Evolution,” Gives Circular Arguments for Common Ancestry

Casey Luskin
February 8, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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If you define homology as resulting from common ancestry, you can’t then turn around and use that as an argument for common ancestry. Read More ›
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Photo: Pakicetus, by Kevin Guertin from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Klinghoffer
Date
December 15, 2021
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Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
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To Shave a Cow: Sternberg on Whale Evolution

David Klinghoffer
December 15, 2021
Biology, Evolution, Paleontology
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That evolution, over a span of 11 million years or so, was once hailed as a “poster child” for the confirmation of Darwinian theory. Read More ›
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Walter Myers III
Date
October 20, 2021
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Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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Is the Human Neck a “Mistake of Evolution”?

Walter Myers III
October 20, 2021
Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Darwin asserted the “absurdity” of evolution designing a shared opening to the esophagus and trachea (windpipe). Read More ›
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Brian Miller
Date
August 27, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

Brian Miller
August 27, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
August 5, 2020
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Biology
Evolution
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Whales — Time to Put Evolution’s Exhausted “Poster Child” to Rest

David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2020
Biology, Evolution
3
The argument about whales turns on two points: “Population genetics calculations say no,” and “New fossil find throws the series into disarray.” Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
July 7, 2020
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Biology
Evolution
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Whale Song: Learning from Our Critics

David Klinghoffer
July 7, 2020
Biology, Evolution
4
A substantive argument is a lovely thing to behold, to watch or to listen to, even if punctuated (in Myers's case) by the usual grumpy insults. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
April 23, 2020
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Evolution
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Whale of a Webinar Debuts a Delightful “Long Story Short” Video

David Klinghoffer
April 23, 2020
Evolution
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Whales are held up as a model of what unguided evolution can do in a short time: in this case, just 8 million years, or perhaps even half that. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
April 21, 2020
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Evolution
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Whale Evolution — Believe It or Not? Register by Thursday for Webinar with Sternberg and Wells!

David Klinghoffer
April 21, 2020
Biology, Evolution
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Prominent atheist biologist Jerry Coyne calls whale fossils “one of our best examples of an evolutionary transition.” Read More ›

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