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

Steven Weinberg
Photo: Steven Weinberg (third from left) with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, by Croes, Rob C. / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 NL <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Paul Nelson
Date
August 14, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
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John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”

Paul Nelson
August 14, 2023
Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences
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“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began." Read More ›
conference attendees
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Daniel Reeves
Date
July 11, 2023
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Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
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Postcard from São Paulo: Intelligent Design Sung to a New Tune in Brazil

Daniel Reeves
July 11, 2023
Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design
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The theme of the conference was familiar to us, but I’d like to think that we’ve heard it sung to a new tune in more ways than one.  Read More ›
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Eric Hedin
Date
July 6, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Physics, Information Loss, and Intelligent Design

Eric Hedin
July 6, 2023
Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Imagine a system where heat flows from a hot region to a cold region under the constraint of the traditional second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›
Sauropods
Photo: Skeletal Reconstruction of <I>Mamenchisaurus youngi</I>, though other sources speak of the very closely related <I>Omeisaurus</I>, in the Dinosaur Museum of Zigong, by Einar Fredriksen, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Date
June 28, 2023
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Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Long Necks in Sauropod Dinosaurs — By Neo-Darwinism or Intelligent Design?

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
June 28, 2023
Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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The origin of the ingeniously intricate long necks in sauropod dinosaurs has been postulated to have arisen more than 35 times independently. Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
June 15, 2023
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Cosmology
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
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Defining Science, and Discussing Stephen Meyer’s God Hypothesis, on Twitter

Andrew McDiarmid
June 15, 2023
Cosmology, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning
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"God is a hypothesis. What Dr. Meyer does is evaluate that hypothesis against the latest scientific evidence of the last century." Read More ›
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William A. Dembski
Date
May 11, 2023
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
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Using Intelligent Design to Train ChatGPT to Lay Aside Bias

William A. Dembski
May 11, 2023
Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life
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This exchange from yesterday underscores the need for “prompt engineers” that know how best to use and direct ChatGPT. Read More ›
Lee_Cronin_2022
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May 6, 2023
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Meet Intelligent Design’s Naturalistic Cousin: Assembly Theory

Science & Culture
May 6, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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When one notices conceptual similarities and parallels, it would be remiss for us not to highlight them. Read More ›
Ide Trotter
Photo: Ide Trotter, PhD, Princeton-trained chemical engineer and Darwin skeptic, delivers testimony before the Texas State Board of Education.
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Tom Winkler
Date
April 17, 2023
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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In Appreciation of Ide Trotter

Tom Winkler
April 17, 2023
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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A memory stands out. It was the evening he was honored by family, friends, ID scholars Stephen Meyer, William Dembski, and Walter Bradley along with James Tour. 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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Paul Nelson
Date
March 6, 2023
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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 ›
Small Magellanic Cloud
Photo: Small Magellanic Cloud, by NASA, ESA and A. Nota (STScI/ESA).
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David Klinghoffer
Date
January 30, 2023
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Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Science
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Intelligent Design’s Founding Father

David Klinghoffer
January 30, 2023
Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Science
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Emily Nordhagen Sandico describes the origins of Thaxton’s book, which had such an influence on Stephen Meyer, William Dembski, Phillip Johnson, and others. Read More ›

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