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Photo credit: NASA/Don Pettit.

Michael Kent: “12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design” 

Michael Kent is a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and a recently retired bio-scientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Read More ›
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Image credit: Rick Bolin, via Flickr (cropped).

The Singularity that Atheists Try To Evade

The singularity isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the well-supported singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray.

Ross Douthat on the Universe’s Remarkable Intelligibility

Suppose that science itself suffers if we preemptively rule out certain conclusions. Read More ›
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Photo: Einstein and Lemaître in the street, Pasadena, CA, January 1932. AP. Photographer unknown.

Georges Lemaȋtre’s Hidden God

Was Lemaȋtre, who certainly believed in God, suggesting that God deliberately hides himself from us, or just acknowledging the paradox? Read More ›
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Here’s the Other Common Objection to Intelligent Design — Answered

If you asked me, “Do you believe in evolution?” I would reply “I believe in the evolution of life, and the evolution of automobiles." Read More ›
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Photo credit: Mario Dobelmann on Unsplash.

What Lies Beyond Death? A Physicist’s Take

The very existence of life — the fact that we are here at all to the pose the question — calls for something more than physical nature. Read More ›
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The Multiverse Has a Measure Problem

In terms of science, the central problem with the naïve multiverse is that it could explain any observation, so it really explains nothing. Read More ›
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Photo: Rosetta Stone, by RickDikeman, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Conservation of Information: The History of an Idea

Conservation of information” is a term that appears in both the physics and the computer science literature. Read More ›
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Photo: Omega Centauri, X-ray:, by NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA; IR:NASA/JPL/Caltech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N.

Dark Matter and Intelligent Design: A Prediction

Let’s look at some of the remarkable features of dark matter, already discovered by observations in astronomy and cosmology. Read More ›
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Feder, Zimmer on the Boltzmann Brain Problem and the Measure Problem

If a grand multiverse contains everything that’s possible, it ends up explaining nothing. Read More ›

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