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Photo credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

Who Pushed the Button? A Question at the Frontier of Human Inquiry

While answers may venture beyond the limits of the empirical sciences, that doesn’t mean the sciences don’t offer meaningful information to bear on them. Read More ›
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Scientists Ask, “Is Materialism Holding Science Back?”

Is materialism a straightjacket? The very fact that a respectable conversation is going on around this question tells us that something has changed. Read More ›
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What Would Aliens, if They Exist, Look Like? Like Us, or Like Jellyfish?

According to celebrity scientific atheist Neil deGrass Tyson, ETs would look nothing like us, because there is no reason they would. Read More ›
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Astrophysicist Sarah Salviander on “Cosmic Signposts” Pointing to Intelligent Design

Dr. Salviander was deeply influenced by science fiction and by the popular astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. Read More ›
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Between Life and the Cosmos, Which Provides Better Evidence for Design?

Caught on video in the back of a car, in which he was riding with pastor Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens said this about himself and his fellow atheists. Read More ›
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When Should Mysterious Signals from Space Be Attributed to Alien Intelligence?

Intelligent design advocates agree that you don’t infer intelligence until there is sufficient reason to reject chance and natural law. Read More ›
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What (If Anything) Physics Can Say About Consciousness

What about objects? If we want to argue that they have consciousness too, we need to define the term differently from the experiential way we usually do. Read More ›
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Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Reads His Solar Eclipse Poem “Totality”

Dr. Gonzalez discusses his experience of the 2024 total solar eclipse and his co-hosting of Discovery Institute’s eclipse watching event in Waxahachie, Texas. Read More ›
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UFOs Replay History: Rogan, Keating, and “Things Seen in the Skies”

Psychologist Carl Jung got interested in UFOs around 1946, shortly after the development of the atom bomb. Read More ›
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Image: An artist imagines a black hole, by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.

Watch: Brian Keating and Jordan Peterson on All Things Cosmological

Dr. Keating is a brilliant astrophysicist, an observant Jew, and a fascinating figure in the dialogue about science and religion. Read More ›

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