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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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Conservation Laws and Life: If It Looks Designed, It Is

In the early 20th century, a remarkable discovery came to light that showed a foundational basis for the conservation laws of physics. Read More ›
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So, You Say that No Cosmologists Have Ever Claimed the Universe Came from Nothing?

Like mighty Samson of old, in a single-handed effort physicist Bruce Gordon responded to 1,870+ comments. Read More ›
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Fine-Tuning — for the Universe or for Life? A Physicist Exercises His Imagination

Teetering on the brink of science fiction is the supposition that advanced civilizations would utilize black holes for energy sources. Read More ›
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The Wow! Signal and a Project in Design Detection

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence searches through evidence from outer space in the hopes of finding something that indicates intelligent ET life. Read More ›
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Those Demons at the Core: Taut New Thriller by Geoffrey Simmons

Author Simmons is, among other things, a disaster preparedness expert. The outcome here would make 9/11 seem negligible. Read More ›
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The Delicate Balance of Dark Energy

The nature of dark energy brings to light one of the most powerful pieces of evidence for just how special our universe is to support life. Read More ›
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Searching for a World, Any World, in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

Journalists have a general rule for headlines called “Betteridge’s Law” that seems to apply in this case. Read More ›
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Polling the Physicists: What the Big Mysteries Survey Shows, and What It Does Not

The nature of the surveys to which Phil Halper appeals is that they measure what physicists believe. They cannot measure what the evidence actually supports. Read More ›
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Cellular Design: More than Information, It Is the Manifestation of an Idea

I’ll attempt to describe an additional aspect of living organisms that highlights their “wholeness” and negates the possibility of reducing life to information. Read More ›

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