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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
Image credit: PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay.

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 ›
Dumbbell Nebula
Photo: Dumbbell Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›
NGC 6530
Photo: Open cluster NGC 6530, by Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. De Marco; Acknowledgment: M.H. Özsaraç.

Cosmologist Frank Tipler on the Singularity Atheists Try To Evade

The singularity in question isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Read More ›
DNA
Photo credit: National Cancer Institute on Unsplash.

Is Information the Future of Biology and Medicine?

University of Washington’s Georg Seelig wants to “design molecules” and “write genetic information.” 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 ›
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 ›
exoplanet
Image credit: NASA Universe, via Flicker (cropped).

The Silence of the Space Aliens

The SEETI thinkers are looking for signs of intention. Even in global death, they believe they could separate natural causes from intelligent causes. Read More ›

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