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Dumbbell Nebula
Photo: Dumbbell Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›
NGC 6530
Photo: Open cluster NGC 6530, by Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. De Marco; Acknowledgment: M.H. Özsaraç.

Cosmologist Frank Tipler on the Singularity Atheists Try To Evade

The singularity in question isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Read More ›
DNA
Photo credit: National Cancer Institute on Unsplash.

Is Information the Future of Biology and Medicine?

University of Washington’s Georg Seelig wants to “design molecules” and “write genetic information.” Read More ›
galaxy IC 5332
Photo: Galaxy IC 5332, by James Webb Space Telescope/NASA, via Flickr (cropped).

On Cosmic Origins, “James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed Nothing to Overturn Consensus”

Stephen Meyer addresses challenges to the Big Bang model, including a claim that images from the James Webb Space Telescope had panicked cosmologists. Read More ›
Hubble Investigates an Enigmatic Globular Cluster
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Dotter.

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Sells “Something from Nothing”: I’m Not Buying

In order to push this, he has to make some pretty big changes to our normal dictionary definition of what "nothing" means. Read More ›
exoplanet
Image credit: NASA Universe, via Flicker (cropped).

The Silence of the Space Aliens

The SEETI thinkers are looking for signs of intention. Even in global death, they believe they could separate natural causes from intelligent causes. Read More ›
Curiosity rover
Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Rare Earth: How Vital Minerals “Evolve”

It's intriguing that life as we know it depends on a seemingly un-natural distribution of minerals. Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

Count the Stars: Webb Space Telescope and the God Hypothesis

I was listening to the Dennis Prager Show and found to my delight that his guest was our friend Brian Keating, the distinguished UC San Diego cosmologist. Read More ›
Europa
Photo credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Scientists Think There Could Be Life on Europa

Jupiter’s moon Europa, somewhat smaller than Earth’s moon, may have surface water and organic chemicals, researchers say. Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
Photo: James Webb Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Guillermo Gonzalez on What’s Changed Since The Privileged Planet?

One big change they note: the number of exo-planets discovered has exploded, from 200 or so to several thousand. Read More ›

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