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Stephen Meyer and Piers Morgan: The Design of the Cosmos

Is there clear and present scientific evidence that life and the universe were purposefully designed? Read More ›
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Fantasy in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

Penrose was right, then, that fashion, faith, and fantasy have led much of modern cosmology astray. He was more right than he knew. Read More ›
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Fashion and Faith in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

This brings us, at last, to the remaining “cyclic” proposal, that of Roger Penrose, which is perhaps the most quixotic of all. Read More ›
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Photo: Multiverse, by Leo Villareal, photo credit: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Quantum Mechanics Has Destroyed Classical Materialism

Whatever this fundamental level of reality that combines mind and matter is, it is — by definition — deeper than human thought can reach. Read More ›
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Disclosure Day Is Fun, But It Didn’t Rock My Faith

Spielberg's message is not only that aliens are real but also that they’re good and they’re our friends. I find that very curious: How is he so sure? Read More ›
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In Fifty Years, How the Discussion About Science and Faith Has Changed

Decades ago, as I can recall from personal experience, there seemed to be only two choices. Read More ›
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Defending Fine-Tuning: How to Respond to 20 Common Objections

Scientists have discovered a whole suite of parameters and initial conditions appear to be exquisitely tuned to allow for complex life to exist. Read More ›
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Halper and Meyer on Inscrutable Dice and Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Phil Halper has argued against a position that no one holds, and his argument as a whole lays claim to the very capacity his objection denies. Read More ›
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Under Aesthetic Arrest: Even an Atheist Might Stop and Think

Humans are the only creatures with a capacity for appreciating beauty beyond a rudimentary attraction to something eye-catching, shiny, or colorful. Read More ›
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Extraordinary: Stephen Meyer and Phil Halper Debate the God Hypothesis

I could say more on the subject, but much of it is in this fantastic conversation — "the toughest debate I've ever had," as Halper graciously says at the end. Read More ›

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