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Photo: Sarah Salviander, via Fathom Entertainment.

Between Life and the Cosmos, Which Provides Better Evidence for Design?

Caught on video in the back of a car, in which he was riding with pastor Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens said this about himself and his fellow atheists. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Denton, via Discovery Institute/YouTube (screenshot).

Denton: Properties of Oxygen, Water, Light Were “Envisaged” for Us at the Very Beginning

Biologist Michael Denton takes a long view — the longest view imaginable in our universe. Read More ›
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Photo source: The Story of Everything.

A Goldilocks Universe, Designed for Us: New Film in Theaters on April 30

As philosopher Timothy McGrew puts it, we live in a universe “bearing everywhere the fingerprints of its Creator.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Dino Reichmuth on Unsplash.

The Conviction that ET Is Out There Survives Every Setback

The usual practice in science would rule out mundane explanations first. But clearly, that is a road not taken. Read More ›
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Photo: Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), in Hanford, WA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

In First Detection of Gravitational Waves, Timing Was Everything 

Let’s look at how timing across multiple orders of magnitude brought together cosmic and human events. Read More ›
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Photo: San Francisco from space, by NASA.

Our Finely Tuned Planet Suggests More than Dumb Luck

When one takes all the evidence together, a better explanation for our finely tuned place in the cosmos is a fine-tuner, a designing intelligence. Read More ›
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Richards: “Designed for Life, Designed for Discovery”

Imagine a scenario where you don’t know the ancient age of the cosmos, but rather, only that it has an age, whatever that might be. Read More ›
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Updating the Drake Equation

The Drake equation is simply the product of a set of factors, estimating the number of active, technologically advanced, communicating civilizations in our galaxy. 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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