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Mount-Rushmore
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Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Measuring Mount Rushmore

A non-humanoid gelatinous alien might assign no meaning to the faces on Mount Rushmore if the alien had never seen a humanoid. Read More ›
alien life
alien life
Image: ʻOumuamua, by ESO/M. Kornmesser. Derivative: nagualdesign [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Avi Loeb: “Nature Does Not Produce Such Things”

Loeb describes his journey to a radical position on the strange interstellar visitor that’s been dubbed 'Oumuamua. Read More ›
alien life
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Tour and Miller Tackle Cells as Computers, Alien Life, and More

They cover everything from how simple can a cell get and still survive and reproduce to questions of design detection and bouncing cosmologies. Read More ›
Alpha Centauri
Photo: Alpha Centauri, where aliens come from, by ESO/DSS 2, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Design Triangulation: My Thanksgiving Gift to All

Hey — wanna see a talk that combines the following. Black swallowtail butterflies, William Harvey, snarky robotic aliens from Alpha Centauri, and more. Read More ›
Murchison Widefield Array
Murchison Widefield Array
Photo: A portion of the Murchison Widefield Array, Australia, by Pete Wheeler, ICRAR, via EurekAlert!

Ouch, Huge Sky Survey Shows No “Alien Technosignatures”

I say “ouch” on behalf of materialists, atheists, and Darwinists. Ten million stars and not a hint of alien civilization. Read More ›
Spinoza

The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero

Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature. Read More ›
Earth and space

Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

Atheists say people in the Western tradition had to wait for modern science to grasp that the universe was huge, and had to shed historic Judeo-Christian views to do so. Read More ›
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In Colorado, Two Sneak Previews of Unbelievable

At Colorado State University, I was impressed by a question from a boy who was about 13 years old. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Joel Penner, via Flickr (cropped).

Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”

Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science.  Read More ›
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Alien Octopodes and the Multiverse

It’s ABD — “Anything But Design,” as Sarah Chaffee says — that is, anything but design that might leave open the door to a source of transcendent intelligence. Read More ›

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