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Listen: Intelligent Design, Biomimicry, and Hacking the Cosmos

Dominic Halsmer draws on the engineering concept of affordances to explore how Earth shows evidence of having been intelligently engineered for life. Read More ›
San Francisco from space
Photo: San Francisco from space, by NASA.

Our Finely Tuned Planet Suggests More than Dumb Luck

When one takes all the evidence together, a better explanation for our finely tuned place in the cosmos is a fine-tuner, a designing intelligence. Read More ›
Mars Perseverance Rover
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NASA Is Overselling Its Mars Perseverance Mission

Synthetic organic chemist James Tour, of Rice University, has shown the folly of NASA scientists and others in a number of videos. Read More ›
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Photo: Photographic image of a black hole, by Event Horizon Telescope [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Is the Designer a Black Hole?

Supernatural agents that exert natural effects are perfectly valid objects of scientific inquiry. Read More ›
Top 6 Evidence for Intelligent Design
Image: "Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Gerald Eichstädt.

Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. Read More ›
Klondike Gold Rush
Photo: A scene from the Klondike Gold Rush, by Hegg, E.A (1867-1948) / Public domain.

Does Gold Have a Purpose? Science Hints at Answers

A gold rush makes sense. But a copper rush? Not so much. And yet, perhaps there is more to gold than aesthetics. Read More ›
glassy carbon
Photo: Glassy carbon, by Alchemist-hp (talk) (www.pse-mendelejew.de) / FAL.

Excerpt — The Chosen Atom

Many have believed (and many still do believe) that Darwin drove teleology out of biology forever. Read More ›
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A “Lush” World Defies Materialist Explanations, as Behe and Denton Confirm

Conditions on Earth, the laws of physics, are not only fine-tuned for the survival of intelligent beings, they are fine-tuned for the development of technology. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Alfred T. Palmer / Public domain.

For a Technological Civilization, We Must Have Metals

It is very doubtful that any beings in the universe could develop a civilization remotely comparable with our own without the use of metals. Read More ›
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Why Do We Not Spontaneously Combust?

James Lovelock has pointed out that atmospheric levels of oxygen much above about 25 percent, let alone 30 percent, would cause raging conflagrations today. Read More ›

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