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Ancient gold pectoral pendant
Photo: Ancient gold pectoral pendant, from Panama, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Creative Commons License.

Metals: From Stars to Cells 

Tracing metals back to their ultimate origins, the processes of stellar nucleosynthesis come into focus. Read More ›
Crawford Lake
Photo: Crawford Lake, by Whpq, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

What’s in a Name? Debating the Anthropocene Epoch

Earlier this month, geologists voted down a proposal to give the years since 1950 a geological name, the Anthropocene Epoch. Read More ›
Buzz-Aldrin
Photo: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, 1969, via Wikimedia Commons.

Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Read More ›
prism
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Understanding the Limits of Scientism

The great impasse in empirical science was reached early in the 20th century when quantum mechanics was first being developed.  Read More ›
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parenting
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The Meaning of the Image of God

In the ancient world, it was rulers and emperors who were sometimes said to be “the image of God.” Read More ›
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The Origin of Life and the Wonder of Daily Existence

Sometimes, civilization’s design breaks down, and we then see how complex, interdependent, and fragile the system really is. Read More ›
globular cluster NGC
Photo: Globular cluster NGC 6544, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Lewin, F. R. Ferraro.

Intelligence Is Unnatural, and Why That Matters

One of the advantages we have in our study of nature is our ability to observe an entire “unpolluted” universe. Read More ›
Tarzan
Image: Tarzan, by J. Allen St. John, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Barbarian Within: Darwinism and the Secular Script for Masculinity

Edgar Rice Burroughs set his Tarzan series (1912) in the African jungle. Because of Tarzan’s wild upbringing, he avoids the debilitating forces of civilization. Read More ›
Belgium supreme court
Photo: Palace of Justice of Brussels, by Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology

The attitude will metastasize across society and culture, eventually corroding our most fundamental institutions and societal structures. Read More ›
Covid
Photo credit: U.S. Secretary of Defense, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

#5 Story of 2022: The Rise of Totalitarian Science

Now, facts are becoming clearer — and so are the momentous consequences of the pandemic for our culture. Read More ›

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