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The Science of Theism as a Healing Salve

One reason I’m grateful for it is that the film makes a scientific case for theism of a kind that unites. It comes at an important moment for that. Read More ›
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What Would Aliens, if They Exist, Look Like? Like Us, or Like Jellyfish?

According to celebrity scientific atheist Neil deGrass Tyson, ETs would look nothing like us, because there is no reason they would. Read More ›
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The Combinatorial Abyss: Why the Genetic Code Defies Chance

It is highly improbable that the genetic code could have evolved by gradual trial and error. Read More ›
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Meyer, Klavan: The Telltale “Element of Smugness” that’s a Giveaway for Scientific Atheists

I bet you could turn the sound off on a video of the well-known scientific atheists and they would be identifiable by the smugness that radiates from them. Read More ›
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Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths and Butterflies

The practice of re-usage of functional parts in different systems is “ubiquitous” in human-designed technology just as convergence is “ubiquitous” in biology. Read More ›
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Sanger Sequencing. 3D illustration of a method of DNA sequencing.
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The Genetic Code: Two More Levels of Optimization

We have surveyed multiple levels at which the genetic code, far from a “frozen accident,” appears highly optimized across multiple independent constraints. Read More ›
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Story of Everything Is Held Over in Theaters, and Gets Fabulous Washington, DC, Premiere

The Rotten Tomatoes site is giving it a 95 percent approval rating on the Popcornmeter. Do be sure to see it on the big screen while you have the opportunity. Read More ›
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Male construction road worker holding a stop sign and directing traffic on the street. Traffic management
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Stop Signals in Disguise: How the Genetic Code Guards Against Frameshifts

A frameshift mutation occurs as the result of indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides that is non-divisible by three. Read More ›
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Incoming Irony: Hawking’s “Own Work Pointed to Need for a Transcendent Mind”

“Hawking’s own work in every way pointed to a creation event, and he spent a lot of the rest of his life trying to find a way around that." Read More ›
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Meyer: Who Created God? “That’s an Easy One.”

The question is which underlying reality better explains the scientific evidence? Now memorize this for the next time your kids ask. Read More ›

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