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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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The Empty Heavens — Two Ways to Look at It

Adam Kirsch over the weekend had a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal, meditating on the coming 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. Read More ›
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Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

Atheists say people in the Western tradition had to wait for modern science to grasp that the universe was huge, and had to shed historic Judeo-Christian views to do so. Read More ›

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