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Photo: I-5 north of downtown Seattle, by SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Science Isn’t God, but It Does Point to God

As you are driving on Interstate 5 just north of downtown Seattle, a home with purple floor-to-ceiling windows stands out prominently. Read More ›
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Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View

The quasi-scientific abstraction that glibly asserts our being “nothing more” than particle interactions is as wrong as it is right. Read More ›
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The Story, and the Meaning, of Everything

The “nerve of the thing” — telling this story based on scientific evidence — would have barely raised an eyebrow among the founders of science. Read More ›
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Why a Multiverse Doesn’t Refute Fine-Tuning

With the multiverse hypothesis, a key supposition is that the physical parameters within alternative universes somehow vary over an undefined range. Read More ›
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How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Thrive

Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? Read More ›
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In Biology, Replacing Chance with Purpose Is the New Paradigm

The history of science begins largely in Western Europe with the overthrow of Thomistic Aristotelianism by René Descartes. Read More ›
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Examining Max Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

According to this theory, every possible set of laws governs a universe, and our existence is simply explained by observer bias. Read More ›
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Beyond Cosmic Fine-Tuning: Intelligent Design in the Laws of Nature

There is only one way to explain why our universe is governed by such simple and elegant laws that support life. Read More ›
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Beyond Fine-Tuning: Why the Laws of Nature Indicate Design

The dream of finding a unique, logically necessary “theory of everything” has failed, which leaves an intriguing question: Why these specific laws? Read More ›
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A Close Look at Free Will: What Should Our Default Position Be? 

The hypothesis that we have an immaterial mind capable of making free, meaningful decisions, continues to be verified. Read More ›

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