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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. J. Smartt, C. Kilpatrick.

Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism?

Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life. Read More ›
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It’s Intelligent Design, Not Darwinism, that Drives Scientific Progress

Here is a list showing various fields where intelligent design is helping science to generate knowledge. Read More ›
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning: A Look at the Implications

Does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists? Read More ›
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New Open-Access Book from South Africa Explores Intelligent Design and Science-Faith Issues

We’ll feature excerpts here in the future, but for now I’d like to highlight some special features of chapters in the book. Read More ›
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Science Stopper? Intelligent Design as a Fruitful Scientific Paradigm

When critics claim that research is not permitted to detect design because that would stop science, it is they who hold science back. Read More ›
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Image: Kepler-442b (per the artist's imagination) along side Earth, by Ph03nix1986, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›
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Rare Earth at Twenty — And My Connection

In principle, the conjoining of the many Rare Earth factors could overwhelm the available probabilistic resources and serve as evidence for Earth’s design. Read More ›
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From National Geographic, New TV Series to Violate Materialist Taboo?

Neither the Earth nor the human race is allowably described as unusual, because that could suggest (shudder) intelligent design. Read More ›
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A Glimpse into a Scientist's Mind Through Chalk Drawings
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Cosmic Archaeology: Taking the Sting Out of the Drake Equation

Could it be that life is so unlikely as to require a designer's guidance for it to come into existence? Read More ›

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