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In Unbelievable, Science Historian Michael Keas Debunks the Atheist “Big Myth”

Hawking, Nye and other atheists argue that because the universe is so large, a God interested in a relationship with us seems impossible. Read More ›
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Photo: Mike Keas, by Robert Crowther. 

Listen: No, Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion

Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the Earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe. Read More ›
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Christianity
Photo: The edge of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station, via NASA.

Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

Atheists say people in the Western tradition had to wait for modern science to grasp that the universe was huge, and had to shed historic Judeo-Christian views to do so. Read More ›
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Unbelievable
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Pre-order Unbelievable Now at a 50 Percent Discount! See Michael Keas in Colorado This Week

Behind all the myths skewered in Dr. Keas’s book lies the idea of religion cast falsely as a retarding force on science. Read More ›
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A Child’s Intuition of Purpose in Nature Is No Accident

In 1929, child psychologist Jean Piaget called children “artificialists” who tend to regard everything as “the product of human creation.” Read More ›
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Photo: March for Science, by Master Steve Rapport [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Marching for Evidence?

Imagine yourself as a graduate student doing research in one of the natural sciences. Read More ›
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A New Low for Evolutionary Ethics

Understand that Big Think is not an obscure web journal by and for a lunatic fringe. Read More ›
Save the Planet
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Photo source: From "The War on Humans," via Discovery Institute.

Environmentalism’s Worsening Anti-Human Infection

Bioethicist Travis Rieder compares having a child to releasing a murderer from prison to kill again. Read More ›
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Can Science Survive Long in a Post-Modern World?

It’s not clear. Metaphysical naturalism insists that there is no design in nature and that nature is all there is. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer at the Heritage Foundation.

Stephen Meyer: Appeals to Evolution “Consensus” Undercut Scientific Methodology

To shut the door on debate, as the Science Marchers would like to do, means shutting the door on science. Read More ›

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