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Image: Plato and Aristotle, by Raphael, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sternberg and Egnor Reveal the Immaterial Realm

This kind of thinking is also on the horizon coming from biologists like Michael Levin unconnected to the ID community. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit.

Physicist Brian Miller on All the Levels of Fine-Tuning: “Somebody Knew You Were Coming”

Dr. Miller gave a concise summary of the evidence of fine-tuning, from the cosmic scale down to the planetary and the environmental, finally to the biological. Read More ›
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Photo: CubeSats, by NASA/Tracy Dyson.

New Evidence that Supports the Privileged Planet Thesis

A newly revised, rewritten, and updated book refutes the materialistic assumptions of the Copernican principle. Read More ›
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Image source: Wikimedia Commons.

Eric Hedin: The Miracle(s) of Metal

Humans have successfully utilized metals for millennia, and trace amounts of metals are crucial to our survival. Is that coincidence or something more? Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA/Michael Lentz.

Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Reads His Solar Eclipse Poem “Totality”

Dr. Gonzalez discusses his experience of the 2024 total solar eclipse and his co-hosting of Discovery Institute’s eclipse watching event in Waxahachie, Texas. Read More ›
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Image credit: Mateusz Tokarski, 1795, via Wikimedia Commons.

Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science

What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting.  Read More ›

Perfect Eclipses: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Today we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the solar eclipse that, on May 29, 1919, physicist Arthur Eddington observed, seeking to test the General Theory of Relativity. Read More ›
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Photo: CSC Fellow Geoffrey Simmons in Jerusalem.

Doctor’s Diary: Is Darwin Still Relevant? 

There was a lot of mysticism and far too many guesses in 19th century. The time has come to modernize his views. Read More ›
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Undeniable Intuitions and Unbelievable Coincidences

Any appeal to accidental processes to accomplish an unbelievable coincidence is really just an appeal to unbelievable coincidence. Read More ›
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Photo: Lunar shadow in total solar eclipse seen from the International Space Station, March 29, 2006, via NASA.

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2017: Perfect Eclipse, Coincidence or Conspiracy?

On August 21, we Americans got to see a total solar eclipse. Read More ›

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