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An “Impersonal Universe” and Its Consequences

Physicist Frank Tipler, as I noted earlier today, provocatively personalizes the Singularity, the beginning point or moment from which the universe burst forth. Read More ›
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What — Or Who? — Is the Singularity?

I had thought of the Singularity as an event, to which the universe — physical reality — traces back at the moment of the Big Bang. Read More ›
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The Empty Heavens — Two Ways to Look at It

Adam Kirsch over the weekend had a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal, meditating on the coming 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. Read More ›
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Image: An artist imagines Homo erectus pekinensis, by Cicero Moraes [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

You think if Darwinian theory had emerged not in the dark age of the 19th century but in our own woke era, it would be different? No, it wouldn’t. Read More ›
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Photo: Photographic image of a black hole, by Event Horizon Telescope [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

How Black Holes Figure in the Argument for Cosmic Intelligent Design

This month the world thrilled at the first ever image of a black hole, this one in the galaxy M87. Read More ›
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A Journalist at Stephen Meyer’s Dallas Speech Recalls His Own Remarkable Response

“At some point during this talk, I felt a gear turn in my head.” Read More ›
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Screenshot from Ben Shapiro's interview with Stephen Meyer, via YouTube.

Ben Shapiro May Have Done the Best Interview with Stephen Meyer That I’ve Seen

He knows the common challenges to intelligent design and poses them very articulately, and he’s obviously absorbed Meyer’s books. Read More ›
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Image credit: Planck satellite, by ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Confirming the Big Bang: The Recent Decades

The Big Bang theory also gives us an age for the universe. The latest estimate, based on several cosmological observations, is 13.80 +/- 0.02 billion years. Read More ›
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Photo courtesy of The Village Forum, Saratoga, CA. 

A Debate in California; a Piece of Business

Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass and I spoke on the topic of God and Evolution. Read More ›
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Photo: Holmdel Horn Antenna, where Penzias and Wilson made their discovery, by Fabioj [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Confirming the Big Bang: The Early Decades

Cosmologists have come a long way since Edwin Hubble published that ratty looking plot of galaxy recession velocities versus distance. Read More ›

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