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Johannes Kepler
Photo: The Moon’s Kepler crater, named for Johannes Kepler, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons.

Melissa Cain Travis Talks About Science and the Mind of the Maker

From Johannes Kepler to Max Planck, scientists have seen their work as much more than merely uncovering how things work. Read More ›
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Unbelievable

Unbelievable: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and How to Tell the Difference

My box of books just arrived. Now you know what all of my family and best local friends are getting for Christmas this year. Read More ›
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Denton
Image: Kepler spacecraft, by NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Uncommon Earth: Kepler Supports Denton

It sound like an anachronistic political endorsement, but it’s true: the Kepler spacecraft is supporting Michael Denton’s fine-tuning campaign with large contributions of data. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Joel Penner, via Flickr (cropped).

Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”

Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science.  Read More ›
Mars
Photo: Mars, by European Space Agency & Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research for OSIRIS Team [CC BY-SA 3.0-igo ], via Wikimedia Commons.

New Paper by Winston Ewert Demonstrates Superiority of Design Model

Winston Ewert’s results are a Copernican Revolution moment. Read More ›
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Galileo
Image: Statue of Galileo outside Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, by Daderot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Galileo Affair — A Durable Myth

The problem with science, as Del Ratzsch has pointed out, is that it is done by people. Read More ›
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Neil Degrasse Tyson

Cosmos Scrubs Religion’s Positive Influence from the History of the Scientific Revolution

Materialists project a religion-friendly image because popular culture expects it, while at the same time they make arguments to erode religious belief. Read More ›
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The Surgeon Evgeny Vasilyevich Pavlov in the Operating Theater (1888)
The Surgeon Evgeny Vasilyevich Pavlov in the Operating Theater (1888)

Looks Like the Appendix Isn’t a “Junk Body Part” After All

The myth of Junk Body Parts continues to take a pummeling from science much as its sister myth, that of Junk DNA, does. Read More ›
Pope Benedict XVI
Photo credit: Catholic Church England and Wales, via Flickr (cropped).

Evolution Reads Like “Scroll,” Pope Says

For some unknown reason, the recent confab of scientists and theologians at the Vatican has gone largely unremarked by the mainstream media. But our colleague Bruce Chapman was paying attention and has some thoughts on the Pope’s address to the scientists, philosophers, theologians and others in attendance. Read all about it here [link expired]. Pope’s Wise, if Limited, Message on Evolution The Vatican has still not really dealt adequately with the issue of Darwinian evolution, but on evolution broadly Pope Benedict XVI continues to make more sense than anyone else in the hierarchy. His greeting last Friday to the Pontifical Academies of Science conference that is now concluding in Rome is well worth reading.  The conference as a whole appears to have Read More ›

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