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Robert J. Marks Asks: Where Is Heaven?

The talk considers multiple dimensions from mathematical and theological angles to ask whether Heaven might exist in dimensions beyond the ones we can perceive.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage–ESA/Hubble Collaboration, Alessandra Aloisi (STScI, ESA).

SETI and Fermi Paradox Are Next-Door Neighbors of Intelligent Design

What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND. Read More ›
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Little Green Men? A Test for the Design Inference

On August 6, 1967, a student named Jocelyn Bell (later Jocelyn Bell Burnell) discovered a strange radio signal coming from space. Read More ›
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Say Goodbye to This Origin-of-Life “Get Out of Jail Free Card”

It’s good to be able to reflect that proponents of intelligent design have been saying things like this for years. Read More ›
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Postcard from Kraków: From Copernican Revolution to ID Revolution

Even physicists who were more familiar with black holes than dance steps got pulled into the fun. Read More ›
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The Remarkable Life-Friendly Properties of Sunlight and Water

“The right light,” says Dr. McLatchie, would be like the thickness of “a few playing cards in a stack stretching beyond the galaxy of Andromeda.”  Read More ›
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Carbon Atom Is Stunningly Fit to Accommodate Advanced Life

Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. There are far more ways the universe could have developed that are non-conducive to life. Read More ›
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How Rare Is Earth? Ask Intelligent Design

Will the Nancy Roman Space Telescope help us find other habitable worlds elsewhere in our galaxy? Absolutely. Read More ›
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Photo: Nancy Roman Space Telescope, by NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Intelligent Design Enriches Space Exploration

I am delighted to begin a two-part conversation with physicist Dr. Bijan Nemati about his work on the Nancy Roman Space Telescope. 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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