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Clifton Suspension Bridge
Photo: Clifton Suspension Bridge, by Nic Trott, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Tricks of the Cell Trade

Cell processes are quick and efficient. They can even solve geometry problems in the dark without eyes or brains. Read More ›
black hole
Image: An artist imagines a black hole, by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.

Is the Universe Causally Closed?

Materialists argue that dualism of mind and brain is not possible because of causal closure — by which they mean that all physical effects have physical causes. Read More ›
Ghost Nebula
Ghost Nebula
Photo: Ghost Nebula, by NASA, ESA, and STScI/Acknowledgment: H. Arab (University of Strasbourg).

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Challenges the Evidence for Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Hossenfelder’s strongest argument is that many fine-tuning parameters cannot in fact be quantified. Read More ›
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Electroactive Bacteria: A “Mind-Blowing” Case of Intelligent Design

Somehow, G. sulfurreducens  “know” how to assemble molecules in their pili in an exact sequential and functional order. Read More ›
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Photo: Jerry Coyne on The Dave Rubin Show, via YouTube (screen shot).

Michael Egnor on Atheist Jerry Coyne’s Divine Sense Organ

Through reason we can infer the unseen from the seen — everything from the existence of unseen electrons to the existence of an unseen intelligent designer from the evidence of design in nature. Read More ›
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Was Universe Designed for Hairy-Nosed Wombats?

David Barash is an evolutionary biologist known for delivering a yearly talk to his students disabusing them of the idea that science can be reconciled with religious faith. Read More ›
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The Universe Reflects a Mind

Philosopher Phillip Goff is, intriguingly, on the right track but he errs in his subsequent inference to cosmopsychism. Read More ›

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