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Carl Sagan

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 ›
Carl Sagan
Image: Carl Sagan lectures to school kids, in a scene from Cosmos (screen shot).

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Read More ›
Stephen Hawking
Photo: Stephen Hawking, by NASA HQ Photo, via Flickr (cropped).

Against the Tide: When Scientists Stray from Science

Lennox: "Stephen Hawking was a brilliant mathematician and a genius. But he had no idea about philosophy." Read More ›
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Repentant Biology Journal Offers a Weak Rebuttal to Its Own Pro-ID Fine-Tuning Paper

The authors close by quoting Carl Sagan’s famous adage that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Do they offer that kind of evidence? Read More ›
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Echoing the Bible, Cosmos Concludes with a Materialist Origins Myth and Future Heavenly Bliss

Tyson ends his summary of cosmic history with a soaring narrative focused on earth. It sounds like the exalted prose of the book of Genesis. Read More ›
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Selective focus on a tall, dark lamp post during a snow storm in the pacific northwest woodland
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C. S. Lewis Helps Us See Design in Three Dimensions

Just for a little while turn off the PBS science narrator in your head. Why should there be beauty? What is it for? Read More ›
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Cosmos Franchise Loses Viewers, While Pumping for Materialism

Perhaps partly because the world is preoccupied by COVID-19, a lot fewer people so far have seen the new Cosmos. Read More ›
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Medicine, Religion, and Cosmos — Was Andrew Cuomo Wrong to Invoke God?

In a press conference yesterday about the coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used notably religious language. Read More ›

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