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These Creatures Would Give Darwin Shivers

Darwin thought everything evolved from a simple cell by mindless chance processes. The animals don’t know that. Read More ›
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Photo credit: “Earth as Viewed From 10,000 Miles,” November 9, 1967, from Apollo 4, by NASA.

“Optimism” and a Lonely Planet

Adam Frank (University of Rochester) interviewed fellow astrophysicist Avi Loeb (Harvard) about the future possibility of detecting “techno-signatures” from space. Read More ›
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Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser (http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1737a/) [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Oumuamua, Space Visitor, Shows Intelligent Design at Work

The discovery of ETs would not undermine the case for the design of terrestrial life one bit. The situation for Darwinists is very different. Read More ›
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Image: Surface of Venus, as imagined by a computer artist, via NASA-JPL [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Astronomer Suggests: Look for Ancient Alien Evidence on Venus, Mars, Earth

Is this a scientific paper, or a very clever pre-screenplay treatment for a science fiction film, disguised as a scientific paper? Read More ›
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Radio telescope at Parkes in central New South Wales Australia
Radio telescope at Parkes in central New South Wales Australia
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To Rule Out False Positives in the Search for ET, Astrophysicist Advocates a Design Filter

Compare "aliens did it" to intelligent design as an inference to the best explanation. Read More ›

Professor Angry and the Argument from Probabilistic Resources

An anonymous professor at the University of Minnesota tries to knock down not an actual argument for intelligent design but the most simplistic parody. Read More ›

A Privileged Planet — with Space Aliens

Cosmologist John Gribbin cleverly inoculates himself against any suspicion -- which would naturally come up given his thesis -- of harboring thoughts of intelligent design. Read More ›

A Well-Worn Pseudo-Journalistic Template: “The Discovery of ET’s Could Spell Doom for Christianity”

You'd never know that theologians have been discussing this topic for at least a thousand years. Read More ›

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