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MolecubesInMotion
Photo: Molecubes, via Wikipedia.

Self-Replication? Not Even Close

Cornell University researchers allegedly “created a machine that can build copies of itself.” Read More ›
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Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It

Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it. Read More ›
alien life
Photo credit: Dino Reichmuth on Unsplash.

Croft, Continued: I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens

Philosopher James Croft happens to think that absent background knowledge, “Aliens!” would be a weakly justified hypothesis. Read More ›
Mars
Photo: Surface of Mars as seen from the Curiosity rover, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Methane Causes Space Aliens?

Recent sensational headlines give astute readers occasion to contrast valid scientific inferences from leaps of faith based on worldview assumptions. Read More ›
Mars Perseverance Rover
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NASA Is Overselling Its Mars Perseverance Mission

Synthetic organic chemist James Tour, of Rice University, has shown the folly of NASA scientists and others in a number of videos. Read More ›
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physicalists
Photo: Photographic image of a black hole, by Event Horizon Telescope [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Is the Designer a Black Hole?

Supernatural agents that exert natural effects are perfectly valid objects of scientific inquiry. Read More ›
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Frontiers of ID: Microscopic Ecologies

Public health lecturer James Hamblin at Yale decided to go without showers — for five years! Read More ›
Curiosity rover on Mars
Curiosity rover on Mars
Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Humans Were Designed to Harness Fire

Of all the discoveries made on mankind’s long march to civilization, there was one primal discovery that made the realization of all else possible. Read More ›
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astrobiology
Photo: Meteorite ALH84001 from Mars, by TK.

What Astrobiology Teaches about the Origin of Life

It is possible that there is no surviving evidence anywhere on Earth of our planet’s first life. Read More ›
Carl Sagan
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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