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Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Reads His Solar Eclipse Poem “Totality”

Dr. Gonzalez discusses his experience of the 2024 total solar eclipse and his co-hosting of Discovery Institute’s eclipse watching event in Waxahachie, Texas. Read More ›
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Photo credit: He Zhu, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Challenges to Terraforming Mars Highlight the Intelligent Design of Earth

A short list of habitability requirements for humans includes the basics of air, water, and food. Read More ›
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Saturn’s Moon Titan as a Habitability Test

It’s called one of the most earthlike environments in the solar system with an atmosphere and organic molecules. How does it measure up compared to Earth? Read More ›
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Disassembling Lee Cronin’s Assembly Theory

When I read the Assembly Theory literature and studied the details of the theory, I was frankly shocked to see how devoid it is of substance and insight. Read More ›
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In the Case of Water, an Inference to Intelligent Design Is Independent of Any Religious Claim

In this article I will explain why, as someone who is agnostic about many religious claims, I find the inference to intelligent design impossible to refuse. Read More ›
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Hippos, Cheetahs, Bats: Mammals Master Physics

Whether sleek, lumbering, or aerobatic, mammals are well equipped with the know-how to push their movements to the limits of the possible. Read More ›
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Melissa Cain Travis Is in New Zealand — See Her in Tauranga This Weekend

Our colleague Dr. Melissa Cain Travis is among the most popular speakers on intelligent design. Read More ›
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The Properties of Water Point to Intelligent Design

It becomes increasingly difficult to deny what Fred Hoyle called a “common sense interpretation of the facts.” Read More ›
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Photo: C. S. Lewis, via Asar Studios/Alamy (Celestial Images).

The Magician’s Twin: A Conversation with Stephen Meyer, James Orr, and David Berlinski

Citing C. S. Lewis, Dr. Meyer calls the drama of materialism’s unravelling a kind “repentance.” Read More ›
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On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation

The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset, Read More ›

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