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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William A. Dembski

panda
Photo credit: Benjamín Núñez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Stephen Dilley
Date
April 8, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?

Stephen Dilley
April 8, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›
panda
Photo credit: Benjamín Núñez González, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Stephen Dilley
Date
April 5, 2024
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Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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Gould’s God-Talk: Is the Panda’s Thumb Incompatible with ID?

Stephen Dilley
April 5, 2024
Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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Stephen Jay Gould was renowned as a paleontologist, not as a theologian. Yet perhaps his most iconic argument is theological in nature.  Read More ›
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Image source: Bill Dembki on Substack.
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William A. Dembski
Date
April 4, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The Connection Between Intelligence and Information

William A. Dembski
April 4, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Information is everywhere in the sciences. Yet scientists often ignore the connection of intelligence to information. Read More ›
Wiwaxia
Photo: Wiwaxia, a creature from Cambrian Explosion, by Martin R. Smith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Daniel Witt
Date
April 4, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Design Without a Designer? New Book Says Yes!

Daniel Witt
April 4, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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So, does the teleonomic explanation hold up? Well, we have to ask: where does “teleonomy” come from? Why does it exist?  Read More ›
LLM
Image source: DALL-E, following prompts by William Dembski.
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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
April 3, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
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Truth and Trust in Large Language Models

William A. Dembski
April 3, 2024
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind
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How much truth is ChatGPT or Gemini giving us? How much can we trust their answers to queries? As we'll see, LLMs can lay no claim to truth. Read More ›
spiral
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Stephen J. Iacoboni
Date
April 2, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
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Is Natural Law Irreducible?

Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 2, 2024
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences
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Perhaps the most fundamental distinction between naturalism and intelligent design is where each metaphysical framework draws the line at irreducibility. Read More ›
Long-Story
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Casey Luskin
Date
March 28, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

Casey Luskin
March 28, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Read More ›
Long-Story-Short
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David Klinghoffer
Date
March 26, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
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A Reckoning for Darwinism as “Junk DNA” Flops

David Klinghoffer
March 26, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life
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As a product of care and intention, the genome ought to be comparable in a way with products of human genius, with every detail there for a reason. Read More ›
eagle eye
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
March 19, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Evolution Falsified? Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

Casey Luskin and Stephen Dilley
March 19, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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If unguided evolution can account for the eye of an eagle, does it make any sense to say that intelligent design is also needed? Read More ›
Meyer-Lennox-Behe-Robinson
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Author
Jonathan McLatchie
Date
March 6, 2024
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Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?

Jonathan McLatchie
March 6, 2024
Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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If Danaher wants to scrutinize the religious motives of ID proponents, we have to consider what such a line of attack would do to evolution. Read More ›

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