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Photo credit: Seagul, via Pixabay.

Why Intelligent Design Can Help Develop Clean, Green Energy Solutions

Photosynthesis has been criticized as inefficient. Why? Because it is assumed to be the product of a mindless evolutionary process. Read More ›
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Photo: Mantid may imitate a leaf or a flower to avoid being eaten, by Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Design Filter Is Best Bet for Finding Liars

Not all intelligent design is benevolent. Design can deceive. Can ID techniques filter the true from the false? Read More ›
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Ghost Nebula
Photo: Ghost Nebula, by NASA, ESA, and STScI/Acknowledgment: H. Arab (University of Strasbourg).

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Challenges the Evidence for Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Hossenfelder’s strongest argument is that many fine-tuning parameters cannot in fact be quantified. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Victor Freitas via Unsplash.

For Fire and More, Humans Are Designed to Have Just the Right Strength

How is it that an ant appears proportionately so much stronger than a trained human weight lifter? Read More ›
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Earth 1970
Photo: Earth from space, April 22, 1970, by NASA.

For Fire, Our Planet Is Just the Right Size

Self-evidently, the gravity on the surface of a planet limits the maximum size of large terrestrial organisms. Read More ›
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Photo: Space shuttle Atlantis, by NASA.

By Design, Earth Is a Planet Fit for Fire

As we have seen so far in this series, fire was an absolutely crucial component in humanity’s rise to civilization and technology. Read More ›
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Bits and Bytes at the Bottom

A funny thing happened on the way to modern scientific materialism’s victory party. Read More ›
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Physicist: Gravity Refutes Free Will

Atheists share an attraction to using gravity in strange ways to support their doctrines. Read More ›
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Book Excerpt: The Big Bang and the Fine-Tuned Universe

What can we infer about the cause of the universe, about what brought it into being? Read More ›
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Photo: Astronaut Peggy Whitson on a spacewalk, March 2017, by NASA.

Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel

A skeptic might ask, “Couldn’t a more technologically advanced civilization develop new sources of fuel that require less mass?” Read More ›

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