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Physics to God: Rational Arguments for Design in the Universe

Do you recognize the number 1/137.035999206? It might seem arbitrary, but if the fine structure constant were any higher or lower, you might not exist! Read More ›
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Photo credit: Animalculist, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Read More ›
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Molecular Animations Reveal Exquisite Design

It is hard to watch these animations and not come away with the strong sense that these systems are the product of a conscious mind. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), C. Kilpatrick.

The Purpose of Cosmic Fine-Tuning

True, without fine-tuning there would be no life, but that’s only because life depends on everything else, like atoms and stars. Read More ›
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Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Read More ›
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Phot credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Ressler (NASA-JPL), Dave Jones (IAC).

Is the Multiverse Real?

Despite its various iterations, few philosophers or scientists had taken the multiverse seriously — until 1998. Read More ›
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Rejecting the Multiverse: Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer

It can be tempting to dismiss the idea of the multiverse as unobservable fantasy. Read More ›
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Photo: Total solar eclipse, 2024, by NASA/Keegan Barber.

Fine-Tuning Is the Solution to the Mystery of the Constants

In his discussion of the constants in 1985, physicist Richard Feynman described the great challenge and mystery the constants pose to a final theory, Read More ›
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Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes). Read More ›
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Photo credit: Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Chilingari.

Three Ways to Formulate the Fine-Tuning Argument: An Introduction

At the heart of fundamental physics are the laws of nature. These laws govern the interactions between fundamental particles. Read More ›

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