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Steven Weinberg
Photo: Steven Weinberg (third from left) with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, by Croes, Rob C. / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 NL <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Farewell to Steven Weinberg, Visionary Physicist Who Appealed to the Multiverse

A sad note in Weinberg’s life was that his philosophical framework prevented him from seeing the design behind the physics he studied. Read More ›
Earth
Photo: Earth as seen from the International Space Station, by NASA.

Stephen Meyer: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the God Hypothesis

Mainstream scientists have been speculating about other-than-earthly intelligence for decades. Read More ›
Big Bang
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Bernoulli, Keynes, and the Big Bang

In analysis of fine-tuning, No Free Lunch Theorems, and conservation of information, Bernoulli’s PrOIR is foundational. Read More ›
Deep Space Station 56
Photo: Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Intelligent Design and Fine-Tuning for Scientific Discovery

The reason this evidence of “fine-tuning for discovery” is so satisfying to me is not just because it defeats the anthropic principle. Read More ›
Meyer Metaxas
God Hypothesis
Photo: Stephen Meyer and Eric Metaxas at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, via YouTube.

Metaxas, Meyer: Materialist Moves Are “Desperate and Kind of Pathetic”

Eric Metaxas talked with Stephen Meyer in a (what else did you expect?) highly entertaining interview. Watch it now. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via Dr. Meyer's Facebook page.

Meyer Interview in World Magazine: Big Bang as “the First Effect, the First Event”

It had not occurred to me that anyone would see the beginning of the universe as a challenge to their faith, but evidently some do. Read More ›
Spring on Saturn
Photo: Spring on Saturn, by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

Dr. Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only ever invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem. Read More ›
ID-Nutshell

Lincoln, Darwin, and ID in a Nutshell

The comparison between Lincoln and Darwin is noteworthy. The words of the former are immortal, of the latter...increasingly evident in their mortality. Read More ›
An Interstellar Distributor
Photo: ESO 455-10, a planetary nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Stanghellini.

More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom

Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism. Read More ›
Fermi Spirograph
Image: Fermi Spirograph, by NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration.

Jonathan Witt: A Cosmos Charged with Meaning, Purpose — and Genius

The late Phillip Johnson called Dr. Witt's book from InterVarsity Press “a wise and witty romp through the fallacies of reductionism.” Read More ›

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