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Ghost Nebula
Ghost Nebula
Photo: Ghost Nebula, by NASA, ESA, and STScI/Acknowledgment: H. Arab (University of Strasbourg).

Intelligent Design Beyond Physics — How Would a Designer Interact with the Universe?

If our minds are “other” than the matter composing our brains, then there must be a means by which the immaterial mind can affect our brains.  Read More ›
biosphere
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Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Read More ›
Bijan Nemati
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Dallas Conference: Earth’s Outstanding Fitness for Life, and Its Implication for Intelligent Design

We can now begin to ask, and in future years continue to reassess, whether the special conditions the Earth satisfies are ubiquitous or unique. Read More ›
Dalls Gonzalez Richards
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Dallas Conference: Astrobiology Reveals Earth as a Rare Jewel

We are learning that Earth’s rare qualities are important for its habitability. More, Earth offers us an exceptional platform for scientific discoveries. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Miroslaw Miras, via Pixabay.

Mimesis and the Reception of Intelligent Design Theory

Natural selection can't work until there is something functional enough to select, and without guidance it cannot happen. Read More ›
sun
Photo credit: Lenstravelier via Unsplash.

Geoengineering on an Intelligently Designed Planet — Let’s Be Careful with That

Scientists are still discovering how many systems, controls, and other aspects of planetary fine-tuning are in place to ensure that we have abundant life. Read More ›
Galaxy ESO 174
Photo: Galaxy ESO 174, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully.

William Shatner and Our Privileged Planet

Shatner‘s revelation may be interpreted as an environmentalist creed, but I rather see it as a poetical formulation of the fine-tuning of Earth for life. Read More ›
DNA
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Iterations of Immortality

The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world. Read More ›
LIGO_Hanford_aerial_05
Photo: Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), in Hanford, WA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

In First Detection of Gravitational Waves, Timing Was Everything 

Let’s look at how timing across multiple orders of magnitude brought together cosmic and human events. Read More ›
alien life
alien life
Image: ʻOumuamua, by ESO/M. Kornmesser. Derivative: nagualdesign [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Avi Loeb Bumps Up Against Methodological Naturalism 

Jonah Goldberg talked with Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb about “Oumuamua, Alien Life & Fighting the Mainstream Science Community.” Read More ›

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