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Meyer, Klavan: The Telltale “Element of Smugness” that’s a Giveaway for Scientific Atheists

I bet you could turn the sound off on a video of the well-known scientific atheists and they would be identifiable by the smugness that radiates from them. Read More ›
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, William Shatner, and Science’s Next Great Frontier

The implications of such paradigm-altering evidence are well articulated by William Shatner in his interview. Read More ›
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Photo: Charles and Catherine Lundberg, Elaine and Stephen Meyer, by Cash Anglin.

The Dallas of Everything: Stephen Meyer’s Completed Pilgrimage

No one voice dominates the narration, with specialists who’d been interviewed stepping in to recount the parts of the story with which they’re familiar. Read More ›
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Astrophysicist Sarah Salviander on “Cosmic Signposts” Pointing to Intelligent Design

Dr. Salviander was deeply influenced by science fiction and by the popular astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. Read More ›
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Are We at Another Lemaître Moment? Cosmological Evidence Suggests So

The universe is not large in spite of us — it is large, in part, because of what it takes to produce us. Read More ›
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The Story of the Discovery of the Beginning of All Things

When I talk about worldview, one point I try to hammer on is that “Everything starts with origins.” Read More ›
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Photo: Artemis II splashdown by NASA/Bill Ingalls.

Contest of Cosmic Stories “Isn’t a Fair Fight”

As Bethel McGrew notes, the tradition of seeing the stars, planets, and the rest of space as pointing to a creator has a distinguished scientific history. Read More ›
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According to New Physics Model, Consciousness Underlies the Universe

We live in a universe closer to the vision of Plato (c. 427 – 348 BC) than of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). Read More ›
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Person is looking for way out of psychedelic maze. A surreal labyrinth in magical forest. Human consciousness is at dead end, searching for solutions. Created with Generative AI
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Does Quantum Mechanics Help Make Sense of the Soul?

Quantum mechanics seems to be the game-changer that Albert Einstein (1879–1955) feared it would be. It is certain to liven up discussions about the soul. Read More ›
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The Search for Extraterrestrials: Keeping Hope Alive

The question looms: How much can science avoid facts while retaining the character of science? Read More ›

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