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Denton: Science on Venus?

NASA has announced a scheme to fly manned airships in the upper atmosphere of the otherwise “hellish” planet. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer at the 2018 Summer Seminar, Seattle, by Daniel Reeves.

The 12th Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design — I Will Remember the Faces

Unfortunately, the pictures we have of the Seminar need to be severely cropped, so as to protect the students’ identities. Read More ›
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Photo: A Gatling gun, by martin_vmorris [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

“Gatling Gun in the Living Room”: Two Missed Chances to Defend a Humane View on Bioethics

John West reviews two books by conservatives, Yuval Levin and Eric Cohen, who “seem more interested in criticizing their fellow conservatives who challenge Darwinism than in criticizing Darwinism itself.” Read More ›
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Image: "Jovian Tempest," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran.

Physicist Brian Miller on Information as the Basis of the Universe

Increasingly, the direction of research points away from a materialist view in which information is seen as a byproduct of matter. Read More ›
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Photo credit: BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

How Naturalism Morphed into a State Religion 

No threat to science today is in any way comparable to that posed by the state church of post-modern naturalism. Read More ›
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Image source: spirit111, via Pixabay.

ID’s Top Six — The Fine-Tuning of the Universe

Some scientists respond, “Well, there must be an enormous number of universes and each one is a little different. This one just happened to turn out right.” Read More ›
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“Great” Minds Think Universe Is a Computer Program

The Matrix, the first episode, was a fun movie. But as a description for reality? Please. Read More ›
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Image: Monoceros ("Unicorn") constellation, by Sidney Hall [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Question for Multiverse Theorists: To What Can Science Appeal if Not Evidence?

They could just as well say that whatever created horses created unicorns, too. Read More ›
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The Multiverse Is Science’s Assisted Suicide

Cosmologists sense the problem and strive to rescue their multiverse from the nagging demands for evidence. Read More ›
Just like home
Photo: NGC 2500, a barred spiral galaxy, by ESA/Hubble/NASA.

Cosmic Inflation Theory Loses Hangups About Scientific Method

Science writer Dennis Overbye calls the inflation controversy a crisis in cosmology. But maybe it is more of a crossroads. Read More ›

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