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Big Bang

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Photo credit: NASA, ESA, K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and D. Watson (University of Rochester); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

Can Equations Serve as a Designer Substitute?

To achieve “something rather than nothing” requires more than an equation, more than mathematics. Read More ›
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No. 10 Story for 2025: Wikipedia Co-Founder on Arguments for God

I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, who presented versions of the cosmological argument and the fine-tuning argument. Read More ›
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Charles Murray, Among Others, Shows the Impact of Our Work

As Stephen Meyer, John West, Steve Buri, and others got up and spoke, there was an odd shaking in the floor and windows. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Neil A. Armstrong, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Forces that Shape our Universe: Gravity

One of the most remarkable aspects of our universe is the discovery that just four fundamental forces of nature govern interactions among all particles. Read More ›
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Look Who’s Talking About New Book on Science and God

When religion wanes, what replaces it is not the calm skies of noble atheism but the snakepit of increasingly unmoored private truth. Read More ›
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Conceptual art journey to dream. Step into another world, Inside of brain, fantasy, escape from life concept. Made with Generative AI
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From Charles Murray to Dan Brown, the Culture Is Maturing Toward the Immortal Mind

The existence of an immaterial reality, a soul, or a genome, is a concept that has been bubbling up, independently, across a range of minds. Read More ›
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An Attorney Weighs the Evidence for ID

Attorneys are skilled in evaluating evidence and making ideas easier to understand, two skills that come in handy when assessing scientific theories as well. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain); Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble).

French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen

Computer engineer Michel-Yves Bolloré, a lifelong Catholic, and Olivier Bonnassies, who came late to faith, argue that the universe must have had a creator. Read More ›
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New Book: God Hypothesis, European Style; Events at Princeton, Berkeley

In the faith context, the popular picture in America of what Europe is like — the land that God forgot — may need to be revised. Read More ›
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Exposed: The Flakiness and Groupthink that Plague Physics

This episode is worth keeping in mind when we hear pundits complain that the public doesn’t trust science or that government doesn’t support it enough. Read More ›

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