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Photo: Earth and Moon from Artemis II, by NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Cosmic Orphans” No More: Stephen Meyer on the Meaning of the Artemis II Mission

Aboard the lunar spacecraft, astronaut Victor Glover spoke movingly about what some have called our Privileged Planet. Read More ›
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Photo credit: "Telescopes Team Up for New View of Cat’s Eye Nebula," by ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Q1-2025, J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov.

Historical Reasoning, Modern Science: A Conversation with Winston Ewert

Dr. Ewert and I dive into the rich history of how early Christian thinkers engaged with the scientific consensus of their time. Read More ›
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Photo: Fred Hoyle in 1967 at Caltech, by American Institute of Physics (AIP), Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Matter Conserved? Ancient and Modern Views

Christians accepted that the principle, nothing comes from nothing, was true for processes in nature. God, however, was not bound by this limitation. Read More ›
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Photo: Nebula PMR 1, via NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI).

Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question

Modern theories postulate entities to account for differences between what we would expect from physics and our observations of distant space. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Koss, A, Barth.

How Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Fell in Love with the Stars

Dr. Gonzalez explains how the gift of a telescope at eight years old kicked off a life-long passion and career in astronomy. Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA/Michael Lentz.

The Joy of Purposeful Solar Eclipses

Intelligent design advocates have more fun at eclipses, knowing they are not just coincidental. That was certainly my experience on April 8. 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 credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

Count the Stars: Webb Space Telescope and the God Hypothesis

I was listening to the Dennis Prager Show and found to my delight that his guest was our friend Brian Keating, the distinguished UC San Diego cosmologist. Read More ›
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Photo: Caldwell 78, by NASA, ESA, and G. Piotto (Università degli Studi di Padova); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

The Heavens Declare: Looking Forward to 2021

As to evidence for intelligent design, my impression has long been that the ancients gave more weight to the stars than to their own bodies. Read More ›
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Counterprogramming for Cosmos 3.0: Two New Videos from Science Historian Mike Keas

The series, as hosted originally by Carl Sagan and now by Neil deGrasse Tyson, has two notable priorities. Read More ›

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