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Copernicus
Image: Nicholas Copernicus, via Toruń Regional Museum / Public domain.

Religious Intuition Can Lead to Scientific Discovery: The Cases of Copernicus and Ferguson

ID is not religion. But even if we were to concede falsely that it is, such a characterization is irrelevant to the question of whether it is true. Read More ›
Tintern Abbey
Image: Tintern Abbey, by J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Wordsworthian Disciple: William Hale White

Many reported being “converted” to a Wordsworthian view of the world after reading him. Read More ›
galaxy IC 5332
Photo: Galaxy IC 5332, by James Webb Space Telescope/NASA, via Flickr (cropped).

On Cosmic Origins, “James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed Nothing to Overturn Consensus”

Stephen Meyer addresses challenges to the Big Bang model, including a claim that images from the James Webb Space Telescope had panicked cosmologists. Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
Photo: James Webb Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Webb Breaking the Big Bang Paradigm?

There is a lot of culture and philosophy built into the Big Bang theory as we understand it. Read More ›
Hubble Investigates an Enigmatic Globular Cluster
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Dotter.

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Sells “Something from Nothing”: I’m Not Buying

In order to push this, he has to make some pretty big changes to our normal dictionary definition of what "nothing" means. Read More ›
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Photo: Galaxies as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, by NASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

How Do We Know the Age of the Universe?

A correspondent asked me recently how we know the age of the universe. The answer is calculated from the inverse of the Hubble constant. Read More ›
galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
Photo: Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, by James Webb Space Telescope, via NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

Does the James Webb Space Telescope Show that the Big Bang Didn’t Happen?

The unexpected new data coming back from the telescope are inspiring panic among astronomers. Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
Photo: James Webb Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Guillermo Gonzalez on What’s Changed Since The Privileged Planet?

One big change they note: the number of exo-planets discovered has exploded, from 200 or so to several thousand. Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
Photo: James Webb Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Webb Telescope Tour with Space Telescope Expert Bijan Nemati

The NASA telescope has been successfully launched into space and has reached its destination, known as the Lagrange Point 2. Read More ›
Galileo
Image: Galileo Galilei in 1636, by Justus Sustermans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution

Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science. Read More ›

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