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Dallas Conference: Astrobiology Reveals Earth as a Rare Jewel

We are learning that Earth’s rare qualities are important for its habitability. More, Earth offers us an exceptional platform for scientific discoveries. Read More ›
Kepler
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In Dallas, Learn About Uncanny Synchronicity Behind the Comprehensibility of the Cosmos

The idea that the rational transparency of our cosmos has design implications came to fruition with the natural theology and astronomy of Johannes Kepler. Read More ›
Northern Lights
Photo: Northern lights, by Lenny K Photography from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Incompleteness Theorems Point to a Hidden Realm

A “hidden realm” behind the common-sense realm of “local realism” — this is the actual nature of the reality in which we live. Read More ›
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“All Things Are Ordered to Their End” 

In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Montsechia vidalii, an early flowering plant fossil from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, by Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Could Laws of Nature Give Rise to Platonic Forms?

Biologist Michael Denton's structuralist view says that underlying structural principles govern the form of living things. Read More ›
leaves
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Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology

The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible. Read More ›
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It’s Intelligent Design, Not Darwinism, that Drives Scientific Progress

Here is a list showing various fields where intelligent design is helping science to generate knowledge. Read More ›
Roger Penrose
Photo: Roger Penrose, by Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning

Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe. Read More ›
Jupiter
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As a Physics Professor, I Can Tell You: Wisdom Transcends Intelligent Design

The fine-tuning of the physical parameters, forces, and laws of nature could hardly have been established by a bottom-up approach. Read More ›
Sagittarius C
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia).

A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology

Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making. Read More ›

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