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Photo: Total solar eclipse, 2024, by NASA/Keegan Barber.

Richards to Aliens: We’ll Show You Our Perfect Solar Eclipses if You’ll Show Us Yours

Jay Richard had a really fun and interesting conversation with Sean McDowell about the new updated edition of his book with Guillermo Gonzalez. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Dülmen, Wildpark, Brücke am Herzteich -- 2022 -- 4642” / CC BY-SA 4.0For print products: Dietmar Rabich / https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BClmen,_Wildpark,_Br%C3%BCcke_am_Herzteich_--_2022_--_4642.jpg / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

Why Are We Drawn to Beauty?

While I love Haidt’s emphasis and regard for the beautiful, I question the power of his argument about beauty as a remnant of our collective survival instinct. Read More ›
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Photo: Puget Sound from West Seattle, by David Klinghoffer.

The Science of a Sunset: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Atmosphere

Many of us have enjoyed a colorful twilight or a stunning sunset. But how often do we think about the science behind these memorable conditions? Read More ›
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Image: An 1883 depiction of the great Lisbon earthquake, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Problem of Pain

For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›
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Image credit: Henrique Alvim Corrêa, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Belief in Aliens a Problem for Science?

King’s College philosophy prof Tony Milligan worries that too many people believe that aliens have visited Earth. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Matthew Waring on Unsplash.

For Your Own Good: The Looming Health Authoritarianism

If you want to see what is going to go wrong with society next, read the professional journals. Read More ›
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Photo credit: José Manuel Suárez, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Weird Water and Its Role in the Rise of Chemistry

Water has been crucial in the transition from alchemy to the science of chemistry. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Rittmeyer EN, Allison A, Gründler MC, Thompson DK, Austin CC, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design — In Miniature

Small vertebrates may be a thousand times larger than single-cell organisms, but they occupy a region of parameter space that presents unique properties.  Read More ›
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Photo: CubeSats, by NASA/Tracy Dyson.

New Evidence that Supports the Privileged Planet Thesis

A newly revised, rewritten, and updated book refutes the materialistic assumptions of the Copernican principle. Read More ›
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Photo: Peter Singer, by TimVickers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Contradiction in Peter Singer’s Worldview

He never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value. Read More ›

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