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Photo: Percival Lowell in 1914, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Man on the Moon and Martian Canals

French writer Bernard de Fontenelle expressed the belief that there really was a man on the moon — and a whole civilisation to boot, if you please. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer Asks: Aliens, the Multiverse, or God?

Resisting the evidence of cosmic and biological design, some atheist scientists have retreated to desperate rationalizations. Read More ›
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Five New Videos with Stephen Meyer on PragerU — Our Impact Is About to Explode

This is a major advance for intelligent design. Congratulations to Dr. Meyer, to PragerU, and thank you to our supporters for making all that we do possible. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: Nanotech, Origin of Life, and Area 51

Dr. Miller offers an illustrative story: Imagine that what looks for all the world like an alien spaceship is discovered in the desert. Read More ›
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Croft, Continued: I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens

Philosopher James Croft happens to think that absent background knowledge, “Aliens!” would be a weakly justified hypothesis. Read More ›
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Photo: A car break-in, by WhyDolls, via Flickr.

Croft, Continued: More Thoughts on Meyer’s Debate with a Skeptic

I think he’s mistaken my emphasis in the specific car break-in examples I gave, namely that the burglars’ behavior was odd and unpredictable. Read More ›
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Photo: Surface of Mars as seen from the Curiosity rover, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Methane Causes Space Aliens?

Recent sensational headlines give astute readers occasion to contrast valid scientific inferences from leaps of faith based on worldview assumptions. Read More ›
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Meyer, Krauss, Nelson: UAPs, UFOs, and Panspermia

The fact that we can't identify the UAPs, in light of our own "limited scientific imagination," should not be permitted to manipulate us into a false dilemma. Read More ›
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Photo: Earth as seen from the International Space Station, by NASA.

Stephen Meyer: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the God Hypothesis

Mainstream scientists have been speculating about other-than-earthly intelligence for decades. Read More ›
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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 ›

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