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John Zmirak
Image credit: Dino Reichmuth on Unsplash.

Peace Through ETs? John Zmirak’s Puckish Proposal

Interested in a resolution of the dispute between scientific atheists and intelligent design? Read More ›
Artist’s impression of exoplanet orbiting two stars
Fermi Paradox
Image: An exoplanet (artist’s rendering), by ESA/Hubble [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Exoplanets and the Fermi Paradox

Contrary to first impressions, exoplanet discoveries actually strengthen the impact of the Fermi Paradox. Read More ›
planetoid
moon rock
Image: A planetoid collides with the early Earth, by Don Davis (work commissioned by NASA) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Earth Rock from the Moon: Treasure in the Lunar Attic Confirms a Design Prediction

The Discovery Principle led me to consider looking to the Moon to study the origin of life empirically. Read More ›
lunar ecliipse
Dark Ages
Photo credit: Lunar eclipse as seen from Seattle, WA, by Diane Medved.

Of Lunar Eclipses and the Dark Ages Myth

Last night Americans across the continent were treated to a most beautiful and informative natural phenomenon. Read More ›
Mike Keas
Photo: Mike Keas, by Robert Crowther. 

Listen: No, Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion

Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the Earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe. Read More ›
Bruno
Photo: Monument to Giordano Bruno, Rome, by Francesca Soria [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Science and Storytelling

To advance the false conception that science is always in conflict with religious tradition, some influential scientists and science popularizers tell us stories about the past and the present. Read More ›
lit match
suicide
Photo credit: Yaoqi LAI via Unsplash.

Romanticizing a Suicide “for the Earth”

The harsh fact is that Buckel’s suicide was futile. It won’t make a whit of difference toward improving the environment. Read More ›
Apollo 8 crew
intelligent design
Photo: Crew of Apollo 8, James A. Lovell Jr., William A. Anders, Frank Borman, by NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. 

Intelligent Design from Space: Guillermo Gonzalez, Stephen Meyer on the Apollo 8 Anniversary

Much as the world appreciated the “noble and poetic moment,” at the time it could be waved away as mere poetry — more sentiment than science. Read More ›
Earthrise
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 ›

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