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Photo: M92, by NASA, en:STScI, en:WikiSky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Big Bang Survives Two Tests

M92 is one of about 160 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy and is estimated to contain about 330,000 stars. Read More ›
Dumbbell Nebula
Photo: Dumbbell Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›
Milky Way
Photo: Milky Way, by Free-Photos, via Pixabay.

New Study: The Milky Way Is Exceptional

“You might have to travel a half a billion light years from the Milky Way, past many, many galaxies, to find another cosmological wall with a galaxy like ours.” Read More ›
Apollo 17
Photo credit: Apollo 17/NASA.

A Miraculous Existence

Zeeya Merali asks a good question: If God desired to send us a message, how would He do it? Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via En Arche Foundation.

Coast to Coast — Stephen Meyer Takes the God Hypothesis to a Huge and Unusual Audience

As a rule, the show covers a fascinating a mix of topics, with an emphasis on the strange and supernatural, and is never dull. Read More ›
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Photo: Paul Steinhardt, by Sleepy Geek, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Avoid a Cosmic Beginning, Physicist Paul Steinhardt Goes to Extraordinary Lengths

Steinhardt is one of the most interesting and influential figures in cosmology. He was one of the original architects of inflationary cosmology. Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
Photo: James Webb Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Stephen Meyer: Galaxy Formation, the Early Universe, and the Big Bang

The evidence for a cosmic beginning is stronger than ever, as is the God hypothesis that it supports. Read More ›
Cartwheel Galaxy
Photo: Cartwheel Galaxy, by James Webb Space Telescope, via NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Meyer: Webb Telescope Confirms a Cosmic Beginning

The philosophical stakes were just too enormous. Materialism could not accept so massive a confirmation of Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning…” Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
Photo: James Webb Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Webb Breaking the Big Bang Paradigm?

There is a lot of culture and philosophy built into the Big Bang theory as we understand it. Read More ›
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Photo: Galaxies as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, by NASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

How Do We Know the Age of the Universe?

A correspondent asked me recently how we know the age of the universe. The answer is calculated from the inverse of the Hubble constant. Read More ›

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