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Who Pushed the Button? A Question at the Frontier of Human Inquiry

While answers may venture beyond the limits of the empirical sciences, that doesn’t mean the sciences don’t offer meaningful information to bear on them. Read More ›
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McGill University Refutes Pop-Psychology Claim that Humans Have a “Lizard Brain”

The false belief traces back to the fact that Carl Sagan was one of its strongest proponents. Read More ›
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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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