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Photo: "Hubble Views a Galactic Waterfall, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, SDSS, J. Dalcanton; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla).

John Lennox: Scientific Evidence for a Design Behind the Universe

"I greatly respect other people who, sometimes at great risk, have decided that they are going to say these kinds of things in public." Read More ›
T. H. Huxley
T. H. Huxley
Image: T. H. Huxley, by A. Legros, via Wikimedia Commons.

Admit an “Error” by Darwin and Huxley? Here’s How It Could Be Permitted

As we all know, evolutionary theory, like the famed golf game of Kim Jon-il, contains no errors or weaknesses of any kind. Read More ›
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toothpicks
Photo credit: Richard Revel via Pixabay.

Is Information a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon?

"Consider the toothpicks. If we drop them on the ground and let them scatter randomly, they will have no shape and will thus be uninformative." Read More ›
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Echoing the Bible, Cosmos Concludes with a Materialist Origins Myth and Future Heavenly Bliss

Tyson ends his summary of cosmic history with a soaring narrative focused on earth. It sounds like the exalted prose of the book of Genesis. Read More ›
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Clever Move — Cosmos Pushes Pantheism

Easier for slipping it into the public schools! It won't alarm the parents nearly as much as an all-out siege on theism. Very clever, Dr. Tyson. Read More ›
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Harvard Law Professor — Ban Homeschooling for “Question[ing] Science”

Ban it for other things as well, says Professor Elizabeth Bartholet in a stunning article for Harvard Magazine. Read More ›
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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 ›
Mike-Keas

Counterprogramming for Cosmos 3.0: Two New Videos from Science Historian Mike Keas

The series, as hosted originally by Carl Sagan and now by Neil deGrasse Tyson, has two notable priorities. Read More ›
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Fruitful Science: The Marvel of a Seed

If engineers could make something like a seed, it would be absolutely phenomenal. Then, imagine getting the object to last for thousands of years and still work. Read More ›
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Photo: Hydrothermal vents, where some theories hypothesize that life originated, by NOAA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Inferential Science — What Could Go Wrong? 

There are many solid, trustworthy inferences in modern science, but there are those that are not very trustworthy at all. Read More ›

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