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Photo: Earth's atmosphere, via Wikimedia Commons.

Geologist Casey Luskin: Our Intelligently Designed Planet

Dr. Luskin offers an additional design argument, this one aesthetic in nature, and takes questions from the audience. Read More ›
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Photo: Stargazers, by David Coppedge.

Intelligent Design and Cosmic Fine-Tuning

In combination, the factors mentioned here and in my last two posts constrain the “cosmic habitable age” to narrower dimensions. Read More ›
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Photo: Geysers on Enceladus, via NASA.

Intelligent Design and Planetary Timing 

Enceladus is an especially fascinating case. Nearly 100 geysers of water ice are currently jetting out of its south pole at supersonic speed. Read More ›
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Fine-Timing as Evidence of Intelligent Design

Sometimes it’s not just the tuning that indicates design. Sometimes it’s the timing as well. Read More ›
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Rabbi Adam Jacobs Talks with Michael Denton about Intelligent Design

Rabbi Jacobs, with the worldwide Jewish outreach group Aish HaTorah, makes a very thoughtful conversation partner for Dr. Denton. Read More ›
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Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on the Deficiency of Alternative Models to Big Bang Cosmology 

Hossenfelder concludes that “we are facing the limits of science itself.” And the question of the universe’s origin “we’ll never be able to answer.” Read More ›
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Listen: Dr. Meyer in the Multiverse of Madness

A multiverse would require a multiverse-generating device, and it would have to be exquisitely fine-tuned to generate even one habitable universe. Read More ›
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The Miracle of Man: Extraordinary “Coincidences” All the Way Down

The fine tuning, what Denton calls anthropic prior fitness, would seem to require foresight and planning on literally a cosmic scale. Read More ›
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Denton: The Miracle of Man Rests on a Primal Blueprint

It’s a long list of things, and indeed, a long list of interdependent ensembles of prior fitness. Read More ›
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In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Read More ›

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