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889<center class="wp-block-signal-center"><p><span class="hailed-persons  gallery-person-container" data-frequency="https://www.discovery.org/wp-json/signal/persons?&person=agauger,amcdiarmid,bgordon,bmiller,chunter,cluskin,daxe,dcoppedge,dklinghoffer,dwitt,megnor,jmclatchie,mbehe,dberlinski,doleary,ecassell,ehedin,ereeves,esandico,gbe
889chly,ggonzalez,gsewell,gsimmons,hglicksman,jwells,jwest,jwitt,mdenton,mflannery,nthomas,pnelson,rstadler,rshedinger,siacoboni,smeyer,wdembski,wjsmith,wlonnig,wmyers&format=span&loading=lazy&use-author-posts-url=1&refresh=3600" refresh-needed="" echo-since="2878"><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure has-description"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/daxe/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2026/03/Doug-Axe.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/daxe/" target="_blank">Douglas Axe</a></figcaption><small class="figure-description toggler"><span>Photo provided by Doug Axe.</span></small></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/gbechly/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2018/03/gunter-bechly.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/gbechly/" target="_blank">Günter Bechly</a></figcaption></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure has-description"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/mbehe/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2018/09/Michael-Behe-2018-600x600.jpg" alt="Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/mbehe/" target="_blank">Michael J. Behe</a></figcaption><small class="figure-description toggler"><span>Photo courtesy of Celeste Behe.</span></small></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/dberlinski/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2022/04/David-Berlinski-2-cropped-600x600.jpg" alt="David Berlinski" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/dberlinski/" target="_blank">David Berlinski</a></figcaption></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/ecassell/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2021/12/eric-cassell-modified-cropped-600x600.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/ecassell/" target="_blank">Eric Cassell</a></figcaption></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure has-description"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/dcoppedge/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2025/01/cropped-2023-04-19-Paria-P07-hike-SalamanderButte-DFC-med.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/dcoppedge/" target="_blank">David Coppedge</a></figcaption><small class="figure-description toggler"><span>Photo provided by David Coppedge.</span></small></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure has-description"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/wdembski/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2023/10/cropped-COSM2022-Nov9-174A9610-bill-dembski-scaled-1-600x600.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/wdembski/" target="_blank">William A. Dembski</a></figcaption><small class="figure-description toggler"><span>Image provided by Bill Dembski</span></small></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/mdenton/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2018/09/Michael-Denton-2012-7060-1-e1537393345249-600x600.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/mdenton/" target="_blank">Michael Denton</a></figcaption></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure has-description"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/megnor/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2025/08/m
889ichael-egnor-2025-JZ0A0545.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/megnor/" target="_blank">Michael Egnor</a></figcaption><small class="figure-description toggler"><span>Photo by Nathan Jacobson for Discovery Institute (CC-BY)</span></small></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/mflannery/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2017/06/Michael-A-Flannery-e1497989127759.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/mflannery/" target="_blank">Michael Flannery</a></figcaption></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/agauger/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2017/11/Ann_Gauger_2160-e1522099277429.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/agauger/" target="_blank">Ann Gauger</a></figcaption></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/hglicksman/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2020/11/howard-glicksman.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/hglicksman/" target="_blank">Howard Glicksman</a></figcaption></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure has-description"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/ggonzalez/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2022/08/guillermo-gonzalez-202207-JZ0A5692-600x600.jpg" alt="Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/ggonzalez/" target="_blank">Guillermo Gonzalez</a></figcaption><small class="figure-description toggler"><span>Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)</span></small></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure has-description"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/bgordon/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2022/03/bruce-gordon-2022-600x600.png" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/bgordon/" target="_blank">Bruce Gordon</a></figcaption><small class="figure-description toggler"><span>Photo courtesy of Bruce Gordon</span></small></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/ehedin/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2019/10/Eric-Hedin-Biola.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/ehedin/" target="_blank">Eric Hedin</a></figcaption></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/chunter/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2022/01/cornelius-hunter-youtube-2022-600x600.jpg" alt="Cornelius Hunter" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/chunter/" target="_blank">Cornelius G. Hunter</a></figcaption></figure><figure class="person-figure gallery-person-figure has-description"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/siacoboni/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.discovery.org/m/2022/09/Stephen-J-Iacoboni-2022-600x600.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="signal-gallery-caption"><a href="https://scienceandculture.com/author/siacoboni/" target="_blank">Stephen J. 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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.