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Date
July 23, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Carl Sagan, Casey Luskin, chemical evolution, Cornell University, Curiosity rover, Darwinism, Enceladus, Francesco Redi, Jonathan Bartlett, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Louis Pasteur, Mars, methane, microbes, Mind Matters, New Scientist, probabilistic resources, The Conversation, University of Arizona, University of Washington, Venus}

Methane Causes Space Aliens?

_{Science & Culture
July 23, 2021

Physical Sciences

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, abiogenesis, aliens, Avi Loeb, Big Bang, Carl Sagan, Center for Science and Culture, Francis Crick, Harvard University, intelligence, James Watson, New York Post, Nobel Prize, panspermia, Prometheus, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, UFOs}

Stephen Meyer: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2021

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Mainstream scientists have been speculating about other-than-earthly intelligence for decades. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, empirical science, evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William A. Dembski, zoologists}

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 29, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Brian Keating, Carl Sagan, hostility, Into the Impossible, physicists, Stephen Meyer, theists, U.C. San Diego}

Three Tough Existential Questions for Steve Meyer

_{David Klinghoffer
April 29, 2021

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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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 ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 5, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Arno Penzias, astronomers, atheism, Bible, Big Bang, biological information, Carl Sagan, Contact, creator, DNA, Edwin Hubble, Georges Lemaître, Moses, multiverse, physicists, Prime Mover, Psalms, punctuation, Return of the God Hypothesis, Robert Jastrow, science denial, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Federalist, Thomas Aquinas}

The God Hypothesis Versus Atheist Science Denial

_{Michael Egnor
April 5, 2021

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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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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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 2, 2021

Categories
Epistemology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 'Oumuamua, atheism, Avi Loeb, Carl Sagan, Design Inference, Eric Anderson, extraterrestrial intelligence, intelligent design, natural science, natural theology, ontology, scientific method, SETI}

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

_{Paul Nelson
February 2, 2021

Epistemology, Physical Sciences

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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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Date
October 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, compassion, COVID, Darwinists, Herbert Spencer, human nature, materialists, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, pandemic, PNAS, political correctness, Sam Harris, SARS-CoV-2, stereotypes, Steven Pinker, theism, Theodosius Dobzhansky, viruses}

Whitewashing Evolution with Borrowed Paint

_{Science & Culture
October 30, 2020

Evolution

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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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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 27, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, creator, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, John Ray, Kenneth Miller, mosquitos, religion, Robert Chambers, scientists, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, universe}

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 27, 2020

Evolution

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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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 27, 2020

Categories
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Against the Tide, Albert Einstein, atheism, Cambridge University, Carl Sagan, Cornell University, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, debates, Evolution News, experts, faith, German, Harvard University, john lennox, Martin Rees, mathematician, Oxford University, prestige, Richard Dawkins, science, scientists, Yale University}

Against the Tide: When Scientists Stray from Science

_{David Klinghoffer
October 27, 2020

Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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Lennox: "Stephen Hawking was a brilliant mathematician and a genius. But he had no idea about philosophy." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 12, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, Darwin's Doubt, Design Inference, DNA, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Journal of Theoretical Biology, logical fallacies, molecular motors, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Ola Hössjer, protein complexes, Simon Conway Morris, specification, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Kauffman}

Repentant Biology Journal Offers a Weak Rebuttal to Its Own Pro-ID Fine-Tuning Paper

_{Casey Luskin
October 12, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design

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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 ›