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The Sun
Photo: The Sun, by NASA/SDO (AIA) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Solar Activity Reveals a Different Kind of “Privilege”

Like you, I was blissfully unaware that our atmosphere was being bombarded, and only stumbled upon the fact a few days ago. Read More ›
tornado
Photo: Photo: A tornado, near Elie, Manitoba, Canada, by Justin1569 at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law 

Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden. Read More ›
Meyer PragerU
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Stephen Meyer Asks: Aliens, the Multiverse, or God?

Resisting the evidence of cosmic and biological design, some atheist scientists have retreated to desperate rationalizations. Read More ›
Earthrise
Photo: Earthrise, by Bill Anders, Apollo 8, via NASA.

Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There

The Copernican Principle has been misused to imply that Earth is somehow insignificant. That is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science. Read More ›
Lucretius
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, in the Cambridge University Library, by LegesRomanorum via Wikimedia Commons.

The Stars Above Us

What Lucretius once termed in the widest sense “the nature of things” is no respecter of modern scientific conventions. Read More ›
spiral galaxy NGC 5037
spiral galaxy NGC 5037
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz.

The Big Myth: Big Universe Is a Problem for Religion  

Self-appointed spokesmen for science often use the enormous size of the cosmos, with its billions of galaxies, as a club to beat up Christianity. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
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Meyer on Front-Loaded Intelligent Design, and More

Stephen Meyer says he doesn’t have an in-principle objection to that idea. Read More ›
bedtime story
Photo credit: Katherine Hanlon, via Unsplash.

From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists

The upshot of the best modern biology and cosmology can be epitomized by changing just one word in physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous comment. Read More ›
Kepler-442b
Image: Kepler-442b (per the artist's imagination) along side Earth, by Ph03nix1986, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›
Deep Space Station 56
Photo: Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Intelligent Design and Fine-Tuning for Scientific Discovery

The reason this evidence of “fine-tuning for discovery” is so satisfying to me is not just because it defeats the anthropic principle. Read More ›

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