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Image: An artist imagines a black hole, by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.

Watch: Brian Keating and Jordan Peterson on All Things Cosmological

Dr. Keating is a brilliant astrophysicist, an observant Jew, and a fascinating figure in the dialogue about science and religion. Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Baruch Spinoza, The Hague, Netherlands, by Roel Wijnants, via Flickr (cropped).

Puncturing the Science-Faith Warfare Myth

In abandoning his traditional Jewish faith, was Baruch Spinoza able to provide an improved framework for doing science? Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA and G. Gilmore (University of Cambridge); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

Keating, Krauss, Tour: Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives

Here is a fascinating and very different pair of scientific, religious, and philosophical conversations, both with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Read More ›
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Rabbi Adam Jacobs Talks with Michael Denton about Intelligent Design

Rabbi Jacobs, with the worldwide Jewish outreach group Aish HaTorah, makes a very thoughtful conversation partner for Dr. Denton. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer, Charlie Kirk: Return of WHAT God Hypothesis?

A listener says he is not an atheist, but an agnostic, and evidently a searcher. Read More ›
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An ancient incantation bowl inscribed with Mandaic, the Mandaean language, by Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Victor Grabarczyk, via Unsplash.

Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor

Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ElissaCapelleVaughn, via Pixabay.

Let’s Learn from Whoopi Goldberg’s Misunderstanding about the History of Racism

Leading scientists were complicit in helping formulate and justify Hitler’s worldview. Read More ›
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Photo: Whoopi Goldberg, by David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Thanks to Whoopi Goldberg, Today’s Webinar on Darwinian Racism Couldn’t Be Timelier

To insist on Judaism as a race is, in a sense, to follow the path of Darwinian racism. Read More ›
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Photo: Nebula IC 2631, by NASA, ESA, and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing; Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

Casey Luskin: The Irony of Theistic Evolution

The Christian or Jewish theistic evolutionist actually goes a step further than arch-atheist Richard Dawkins. Read More ›

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