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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 4, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __cedited, Alexander Friedmann, Arno Penzias, Arthur Eddington, Big Bang, cosmic microwave background radiation, Edwin Hubble, Fred Hoyle, General Theory of Relativity, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, redshift}

Confirming the Big Bang: The Early Decades

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 4, 2019

Physical Sciences

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 23, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, Alpha Centauri, atheism, Big Bang, careers, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christians, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, earth, intelligent design, Jews, John Zmirak, Michael Behe, multiverse, nature, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Stream}

Peace Through ETs? John Zmirak’s Puckish Proposal

_{David Klinghoffer
February 23, 2019

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Interested in a resolution of the dispute between scientific atheists and intelligent design? Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 20, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, Big Bang, criminals, evolution, humans, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, justice, materialism, Michael Egnor, natural selection, punishment, robots, scientists, Stephen Hawking, Why Evolution Is True}

From Materialists, More Reductio ad Absurdum

_{Granville Sewell
January 20, 2019

Evolution

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Quite honestly, I think we should be grateful to people like Coyne and Hawking, who carry materialism to its logical conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 17, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __cedited, Alan Guth, Albert Einstein, Alexander Vilenkin, atheism, Big Bang, Fred Hoyle, galaxies, General Theory of Relativity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, theism, universe}

Proper Credit — Who Discovered Hubble’s Law?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 17, 2019

Astronomy, Cosmology, Physical Sciences

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Many leading scientists of the day realized the implication of the cosmic expansion — there was a beginning! Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2018

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, Benjamin Wiker, Big Bang, celebrities, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, DNA, education, evolution, Explore Evolution, history, human evolution, Jerry Coyne, undergraduates, Why Evolution Is True}

To Bolster Belief in Evolution, Study Recommends Celebrity Endorsements

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2018

Cosmology, Evolution

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The study’s design revealed much about the motives of the investigators. Read More ›

Golden Sunset Reflecting On A Breaking Ocean Wave

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Epistemology
History of Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotelianism, Big Bang, causation, Ed Feser, Enlightenment, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, knowledge, Maimonides, materialism, nature, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, philosophers, power, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, scientific revolution, scientists, Steven Pinker, Thomas Aquinas}

Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2018

Epistemology, History of Science, Metaphysics

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A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 23, 2018

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, astrophysics, Big Bang, Brian Greene, determinism, free will, John Bell, machines, materialism, nature, particles, quantum mechanics, quantum theory, Singularity, UC Berkeley, Werner Heisenberg}

Is Free Will an Illusion?

_{Michael Egnor
July 23, 2018

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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if we are wholly matter, and matter is wholly governed by physical law, there is no room for free will. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
July 17, 2018

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __cedited, Big Bang, Cambrian Explosion, causal circularity, Center for Science and Culture, cosmos, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, natural world, protein evolution, science, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, students, Summer Seminars, women}

The 12th Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design — I Will Remember the Faces

_{Ann Gauger
July 17, 2018

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Unfortunately, the pictures we have of the Seminar need to be severely cropped, so as to protect the students’ identities. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 8, 2018

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, "God of the gaps", American Scientific Affiliation, Big Bang, Charles Townes, deism, history, intelligent design, Louis Pasteur, Nobel Prize, science, scientism, theistic evolution}

In Defense of Theistic Evolution, Denis Lamoureux Rewrites History

_{Jonathan Witt
June 8, 2018

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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Scientism’s grand progress narrative holds that as we learn more and more about the world, purely natural or material explanations inevitably will arise and grow stronger. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 31, 2018

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __cedited, Albert Einstein, astrophysics, atheism, bias, Big Bang, Copernican principle, creation, creationism, Darwinian theory, DNA, Edwin Hubble, functionality, Genesis, genome, Georges Lemaître, intelligent design, junk DNA, Real Clear Science}

Astrophysics and Molecular Genetics with the Parking Brake On

_{Michael Egnor
May 31, 2018

Biology, Cosmology, Physical Sciences

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The ancient model of the cosmos, which was the model presupposed by most scientists prior to the mid 20th century, was Steady State. Read More ›