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Design Gets Down and Dirty — Complex Specified Information in Electric Mud

Bacteria that conduct electricity with cables may be involved in everything from cleansing the oceans and enriching the soil to guarding our own teeth. 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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Mega Millions
Photo: Mega Millions billboard, by Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

Applying Bayes’ Theorem to Biological Design

Suppose we want to know the odds that a particular individual won last week’s Mega Millions jackpot in the United States. Read More ›
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Photo: Bayes' Theorem, by mattbuck (category) / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).

A Bayesian Approach to Intelligent Design

I have come to think of evidence in Bayesian terms and this has in turn impacted the way I think about the biological arguments for ID. 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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Image: Proxima Centauri and Proxima Centauri b (artist’s imagining), by ESO/M. Kornmesser / CC BY.

Is Space Travel Our Destiny?

I was motivated to do this study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths. Read More ›
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Image: Carl Sagan, by NASA/Cosmos Studies.

Cosmos Episode 6 — That’s Entertainment! (But Is It Science?)

Here is the problem with speculative thinking about extraterrestrial life as well as about the origin of life. Read More ›
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Remembering the First Manned Moon Landing at 50; What Does the Future Hold?

I remember watching the Apollo moon landings on TV from 1969 to 1972 as a child. Read More ›
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Photo: James Tour speaking at the 2019 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, via Discovery Institute

Professor James Tour: A “Liar for Jesus”?

Renowned scientist James Tour at Rice University is facing the wrath of Internet trolls because of his candid evaluation of origin of life research. Read More ›
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Confirming the Big Bang: The Recent Decades

The Big Bang theory also gives us an age for the universe. The latest estimate, based on several cosmological observations, is 13.80 +/- 0.02 billion years. Read More ›

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