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Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Read More ›
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Is the Multiverse Scientific Fact or Mere Fancy?

Host Robert Lawrence Kuhn asked Professor of Christian Philosophy Nancey Murphy if, in her view, the universe is fine-tuned for consciousness. Read More ›
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Physics to God: Rational Arguments for Design in the Universe

It’s time to get more intimately acquainted with the strange and wonderful numbers that hold our universe together. Read More ›
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Image: Fermi Spirograph, by NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration.

Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe

Richard Feynman called 1/137, the fine structure constant, “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man.” Read More ›

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