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Aurora
Photo: Aurora as seen from the International Space Station, via NASA/Shane Kimbrough.

Our Purposeless Planet? Jay Richards Tackles the Copernican Principle

Not only is planet Earth well suited for advanced life like ourselves, it’s also finely tuned for scientific discovery. Read More ›
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Photo: Iron, via Wikimedia Commons.

No Iron, No Life: Intelligent Design in Iron Availability

As an exercise, count the number of lucky breaks that had to occur for the evolutionary story to work. Read More ›
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Photo: Mica, by Pascal Terjan from London, United Kingdom / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).

Helen Hansma: Round Two on the Origin of Life

My interlocutor was Helen Hansma who pioneered the mica-sheet origin-of-life model. Read More ›
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Image credit: Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.

Listen: Kirk Durston on Fantasy Science and Scientism

One example of fantasy science, according to Durston, is the multiverse. Read More ›
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Experimental Science and Its Implications for Faith

A nice thing about being young is that you have no idea how much you do not know. Read More ›
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Hunter: With Darwinism, “The Theory Is Always Driving the Ideas In Spite of the Evidence”

Mitochondria, the powerhouse of eukaryotic cells, pose a powerful and newly acute problem for evolution. Read More ›
How to Build a Cell

The Wonder of Water at the Nanoscale

More detail has come out on the fascinating role of water in cellular dynamics, touched on by Denton in his book, The Wonder of Water. Read More ›
Max Delbrück

DNA, Information, and Aristotle’s Nobel Prize

Max Delbrück (1906-1981) was a biophysicist and Nobel laureate who made seminal discoveries in the DNA-based replication of viruses. Read More ›

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