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Earthrise
Photo credit: NASA.

Apollo 8 and Intelligent Design, Then and Now

Half a century ago, as 1968 came to a close, one event brought people together not only in America but also around the globe. Read More ›
David Hume
Photo: Statue of David Hume, Edinburgh, Scotland, by Bandan [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›
Parker Solar Probe
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben, via NASA. 

NASA’s Parker Probe Kisses the Sun — And Rightly So

It’s thanks only to the fine-tuning of the laws and constants of nature that we live in a universe awash in radiation from this tiny swath of the electromagnetic spectrum — the life-permitting swath. Read More ›
Carl Sagan
Image: Carl Sagan lectures to school kids, in a scene from Cosmos (screen shot).

Denton Turns Sagan’s “Humdrum Star” on Its Head

“Flooded with the light of life”: What a beautiful way of putting it. This creates a double dilemma for materialists. Read More ›
Richard-Feynman
Photo: Richard Feynman in 1984, © Tamiko Thiel (OTRS communication from photographer) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Cosmic Fine-Tuning Would Be Hard to Believe if It Weren’t True

The dual wave and particulate aspects of light, essential to our ability to see, and so much else, must all be just right to within insanely precise parameters. Read More ›
hairy-nosed-wombat
Photo: A hairy-nosed wombat, by VirtualWolf, via Flickr (cropped).

Was Universe Designed for Hairy-Nosed Wombats?

David Barash is an evolutionary biologist known for delivering a yearly talk to his students disabusing them of the idea that science can be reconciled with religious faith. Read More ›
octopus
Photo credit: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.

Alien Octopodes and the Multiverse

It’s ABD — “Anything But Design,” as Sarah Chaffee says — that is, anything but design that might leave open the door to a source of transcendent intelligence. Read More ›
Keating

Multiple Problems with the Multiverse

In a new PragerU video, this is quite a strong statement from UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Read More ›
DNA-2
Photo credit: Jarrod Doll, via Flickr.

Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science

This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ. Read More ›
Mars North Pole
Photo: Sand dunes at the North Pole of Mars, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona.

Egnor: Two Weaknesses of Agentive Cosmopsychism

There are a limited number of explanations available for how cosmic fine-tuning came to be. Actually, there are three. Read More ›

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