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Those Demons at the Core: Taut New Thriller by Geoffrey Simmons

Author Simmons is, among other things, a disaster preparedness expert. The outcome here would make 9/11 seem negligible. Read More ›
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Why Life’s Origin Can Only Be Explained by Design

The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures Read More ›
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Protocell Pretensions: The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research

This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Read More ›
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New Light on Dark Energy Points to Our Privileged Space

Modern astronomy relies not only on bigger telescopes and more sophisticated instruments, but upon computational power. Read More ›
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The Delicate Balance of Dark Energy

The nature of dark energy brings to light one of the most powerful pieces of evidence for just how special our universe is to support life. Read More ›
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Searching for a World, Any World, in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

Journalists have a general rule for headlines called “Betteridge’s Law” that seems to apply in this case. Read More ›
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Polling the Physicists: What the Big Mysteries Survey Shows, and What It Does Not

The nature of the surveys to which Phil Halper appeals is that they measure what physicists believe. They cannot measure what the evidence actually supports. Read More ›
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High School Science with an Intelligent Design Perspective? Yes, Please!

Kristin Marais and Summer Edwards explain why they’re so passionate about teaching their subject and how the courses are designed with maximum flexibility. Read More ›
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Cellular Design: More than Information, It Is the Manifestation of an Idea

I’ll attempt to describe an additional aspect of living organisms that highlights their “wholeness” and negates the possibility of reducing life to information. Read More ›
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Fantasy in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

Penrose was right, then, that fashion, faith, and fantasy have led much of modern cosmology astray. He was more right than he knew. Read More ›

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