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Photo: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image (2015), by NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University [Public domain].

Jay Richards Dismantles Carl Sagan’s Passive Theist

Sagan suggests that if we give up on the belief in God, then we can roll up our sleeves and save our planet. Read More ›
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Image: Carl Sagan lectures to school kids, in a scene from Cosmos (screen shot).

Jay Richards: God, Carl Sagan, and Word Games

When the vast majority of people speak about God, they have in mind a powerful, conscious Creator. Sagan plays games by redefining the meaning of “God.” Read More ›
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Photo: Surface of Mars as seen from the Curiosity rover, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Methane Causes Space Aliens?

Recent sensational headlines give astute readers occasion to contrast valid scientific inferences from leaps of faith based on worldview assumptions. Read More ›
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Photo: Earth as seen from the International Space Station, by NASA.

Stephen Meyer: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the God Hypothesis

Mainstream scientists have been speculating about other-than-earthly intelligence for decades. Read More ›
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Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›
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Photo: Voyager Golden Record, by NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Three Tough Existential Questions for Steve Meyer

Brian Keating asks what Meyer would put in a space-bound time capsule like the Voyager Golden Record, as Carl Sagan had the opportunity to do. Read More ›
Photo: Veil Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay.

The God Hypothesis Versus Atheist Science Denial

It is a scandal that atheism has such a hold on so many scientists that it corrupts their science and leads them to deny what is obvious. Read More ›
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Image: ʻOumuamua, by ESO/M. Kornmesser. Derivative: nagualdesign [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Most Valuable Aspect of Avi Loeb’s Intelligent Design Case

The most valuable aspect of his case is the stimulus it provides to the question, "If non-human intelligences exist, how would we detect them?" Read More ›
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Photo credit: Herrmann Stamm, via Unsplash.

Whitewashing Evolution with Borrowed Paint

A team of known materialistic Darwinists promotes their helpfulness in solving the pandemic, but to do so, they steal values from outside their toolkit. Read More ›

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