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For Christmas, Michael Behe Opens a Black Box

The cell was a black box to Darwin and his contemporaries. Today we can explore that black box like never before. Read More ›
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Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight

Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky. Read More ›
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Remembering the First Manned Moon Landing at 50; What Does the Future Hold?

I remember watching the Apollo moon landings on TV from 1969 to 1972 as a child. Read More ›
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‘Oumuamua Revisited: Prospect of Intelligent Aliens Puts Materialists in a Pickle

A mysterious oblong object, ‘Oumuamua, was observed a couple of years ago, transiting across the Solar System. Read More ›
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The Empty Heavens — Two Ways to Look at It

Adam Kirsch over the weekend had a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal, meditating on the coming 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. Read More ›
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Photo: Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques, via NASA.

Richards, Gonzalez: Privileged Planet Evidence Mounts

The bias in favor of science, you might say, tells you something about the mind behind the cosmic design. Read More ›
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Photo: International Space Station, NASA/Roscosmos.

Gonzalez: “Worlds Like This Are Hard to Come By”

How special the Earth is has become ever more apparent, in ways that allow life to flourish, but more than that. Read More ›
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Photo: Photographic image of a black hole, by Event Horizon Telescope [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

First Ever Black Hole Image Points to Cosmology’s Big Message

Discovery Institute astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez identifies two important points about the Event Horizon Telescope’s (EHT) exciting achievement. Read More ›
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Photo: The Earth and the Sun, as seen from the International Space Station, by NASA.

On the 15th Anniversary of The Privileged Planet: An Update

The basic thesis of TPP is that the best places for intelligent observers are also the best places for observing. Read More ›
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Photo credit: John Torcasio via Unsplash. 

Kepler Versus Religion as a Football

Evolutionists play a game, and it’s a shallow one. So what’s the truth about science, and religion, and how they do or do not fit together? Read More ›

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