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The Farm at the Center of the Universe
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Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Read More ›
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What’s Next in the Search for Habitable Worlds?

Are we common or rare? You can be on either side of the question and still be excited about the search for habitable planets capable of harboring life. Read More ›
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On Fine-Tuning, Responding to an Atheist YouTuber

James Fodor is a neuroscience grad student at the University of Melbourne in Australia who identifies himself as an atheist. Read More ›
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Our Highly Praised High School CHEMISTRY Class Starts August 26

As one of Ms. Marais’s students wrote to her, “I have never in my life had a teacher (besides my parents) who was as dedicated and excited as you!” Read More ›
Big Bang
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The Big Bang Simplified

Since very few people understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, for most of us the Big Bang seems very mysterious and counterintuitive. Read More ›
Gliese 12b
Image: Gliese 12b (artist's imagining), via NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Interstellar Travel: Fantasy or Destiny?

Borrowing from science fiction, one of the more intriguing possibilities for interstellar travel involves nullifying the inertia of the entire spaceship. Read More ›
City of David
Photo: City of David, by David Coppedge.

Intelligent Design in Action: Pattern Matching in Archaeology

Our uniform experience of intelligent causes allows us to make inferences about design, even without knowing the identity of the designers. Read More ›
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Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Read More ›
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Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Read More ›

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