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Photo credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Europa Clipper: The Moon Mission Making Waves

Astrobiologists hope this mission will help answer a couple of big questions in astrobiology. Read More ›
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Photo: Zoanthus, by G. Bechly.

Oceanic Design: The Fine-Tuned Balance of Trace Elements for Marine Life

This long-term cycling is again indicative of a system that was well designed for sustainability. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Daisuke Tashiro, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lee Spetner on What Natural Selection Can Do — And What It Can’t

Dr Spetner also explores aspects of population genetics and the constraints the Earth’s history imposes. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Guillermo Gonzalez.

Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery

Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ted.ns, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Beauty and Our Privileged Planet

As Jay Richards and I argue in our book, nature seems designed in such a way that the most habitable places are the best places to do science. Read More ›
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Photo: Copernicus, by Pudelek, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards: Toppling a Myth of Human Insignificance

It was 19th-century materialism that needed the so-called Copernican demotion, for ideological reasons, and the historians of the time obediently invented it. Read More ›
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Photo source: Uncommon Knowledge, via YouTube (screenshot).

Richards: The Most Earth-Like Planet Is Still … Mars

With the discovery of large numbers of exoplanets in the last twenty years, does Earth look as privileged as it once did? Read More ›
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Photo: Earth as seen from the Moon, by NASA.

What Can We Infer About the Source of Life?

If I may, I would submit that a familial relationship exists between the author of life and what has been made. Read More ›
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Eric Hedin: The Miracle(s) of Metal

Humans have successfully utilized metals for millennia, and trace amounts of metals are crucial to our survival. Is that coincidence or something more? Read More ›
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Photo: A terraformed Mars...don't hold your breath, by Daein Ballard, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Earth and Mars — A Rare Gem and a Sharp Contrast

Apparently, simple living organisms must exist for eons on a planet before more advanced life can thrive. Read More ›

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