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Photo: John Lennox, via Uncommon Knowledge (screenshot).

Lennox, Meyer, Tour, Robinson: The Science of Monotheism

The indefinite article is emphatically in the singular. In all those statements, there was only one beginning. Read More ›
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What Grand Design? On Stephen Hawking’s Loophole

In their 2010 book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow set out to answer a big question. Read More ›
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The Story of the Discovery of the Beginning of All Things

When I talk about worldview, one point I try to hammer on is that “Everything starts with origins.” Read More ›
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Why Darwinian Theory Threatens the Declaration of Independence

Dr. John West highlights how modern scientific discoveries in biology, physics, and cosmology are now reinforcing the core claims of the Declaration. Read More ›
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The Story of Everything: Why This Documentary Matters

It is a moment when the evidence has accumulated to the point where the materialist story is no longer the path of least resistance. Read More ›
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Photo: Earth and Moon from Artemis II, by NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Cosmic Orphans” No More: Stephen Meyer on the Meaning of the Artemis II Mission

Aboard the lunar spacecraft, astronaut Victor Glover spoke movingly about what some have called our Privileged Planet. Read More ›
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Photo: Sarah Salviander, via Fathom Entertainment.

Between Life and the Cosmos, Which Provides Better Evidence for Design?

Caught on video in the back of a car, in which he was riding with pastor Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens said this about himself and his fellow atheists. Read More ›
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Post-Darwin, Too, Maxwell Drew a Remarkable Design Inference

So far we detect significant prescience about intelligent design in Maxwell’s thought. He all but uses the phrase himself. Read More ›
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Photo: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-NEWTON, IXPE:NASA/MSFC; Optical: NSF/NOIRLab; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt.

The Objective Probability of the Fine-Tuning Evidence

Science and philosophy aim to explain aspects of the world and of our experience, and both offer judgments about what is correct or incorrect. Read More ›
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Photo: "Celebrating NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s 20th Anniversary: Crater Near Sirenum Fossae," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.

Sean Carroll and the Counter-Evidence Considered

My present concern is to articulate and confront Carroll's charge that the fine-tuning argument engages in some evidential shenanigans. Read More ›

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