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Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Macarena Garcia Marin (ESA Office at STScI).

The Delicate Balance of Dark Energy

The nature of dark energy brings to light one of the most powerful pieces of evidence for just how special our universe is to support life. Read More ›
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Image credit: EmDee, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Are We at Another Lemaître Moment? Cosmological Evidence Suggests So

The universe is not large in spite of us — it is large, in part, because of what it takes to produce us. Read More ›
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Photo: Einstein and Lemaître in the street, Pasadena, CA, January 1932. AP. Photographer unknown.

When Einstein Met Lemaître

Einstein’s response shows the same unwillingness to change his position: he accepted the mathematics, but not a physically expanding universe. Read More ›
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The True Fathers of the Big Bang 

The purpose of this book is not to exhaustively survey the history of cosmology through the centuries. Read More ›
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Photo: Jean-Pierre Luminet, courtesy of the author.

New Book from DI Press, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, Praised by Three Nobel Laureates

Many widely read scientific writers of our day mistakenly attribute the concepts of the expanding universe and the Big Bang to Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein. Read More ›
Photo: Veil Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay.

The God Hypothesis Versus Atheist Science Denial

It is a scandal that atheism has such a hold on so many scientists that it corrupts their science and leads them to deny what is obvious. Read More ›
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Book Excerpt: The Big Bang and the Fine-Tuned Universe

What can we infer about the cause of the universe, about what brought it into being? Read More ›
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A Journalist at Stephen Meyer’s Dallas Speech Recalls His Own Remarkable Response

“At some point during this talk, I felt a gear turn in my head.” Read More ›
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Photo: Holmdel Horn Antenna, where Penzias and Wilson made their discovery, by Fabioj [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Confirming the Big Bang: The Early Decades

Cosmologists have come a long way since Edwin Hubble published that ratty looking plot of galaxy recession velocities versus distance. Read More ›
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Image: "Black Hole Bounty Captured in the Center of the Milky Way," by NASA/Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

Astrophysics and Molecular Genetics with the Parking Brake On

The ancient model of the cosmos, which was the model presupposed by most scientists prior to the mid 20th century, was Steady State. Read More ›

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