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Knowledge Isn’t Opposed to Mystery; It’s a Path to Wonder

Learning about how a seahorse works might be one of the most spiritual things I can do. Read More ›
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In Debate with Meyer, Matt Dillahunty Brandishes His “Surveys”

Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature. Read More ›
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Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information. Read More ›
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Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

Suppose scientists did formulate a viable materialistic explanation for the origin of life. Couldn’t someone ask for an account of the origin of matter itself? Read More ›
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In Science, Endless Competing Models Are a Warning Sign

Some of us are old enough to remember when the origin of life was a question that science would answer — soon. But that was hundreds of promising theories ago. Read More ›
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So, You Say that No Cosmologists Have Ever Claimed the Universe Came from Nothing?

Like mighty Samson of old, in a single-handed effort physicist Bruce Gordon responded to 1,870+ comments. Read More ›
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“God of the Gaps,” and Other Old Friends: Responding to Critics in The Telegraph

There are a lot of commenters refuting arguments that Stephen Meyer never made. What he is offering is what philosophers of science call an abductive inference. Read More ›
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Fine-Tuning — for the Universe or for Life? A Physicist Exercises His Imagination

Teetering on the brink of science fiction is the supposition that advanced civilizations would utilize black holes for energy sources. Read More ›
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New Light on Dark Energy Points to Our Privileged Space

Modern astronomy relies not only on bigger telescopes and more sophisticated instruments, but upon computational power. Read More ›
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The Delicate Balance of Dark Energy

The nature of dark energy brings to light one of the most powerful pieces of evidence for just how special our universe is to support life. Read More ›

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