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Using the Logic of Surprise to Infer Cosmic Design

On a hike, you stumble upon a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods. When you walk in, you notice a steaming cup of tea sitting on the table. Read More ›
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Are We at Another Lemaître Moment? Cosmological Evidence Suggests So

The universe is not large in spite of us — it is large, in part, because of what it takes to produce us. Read More ›
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Denton: Properties of Oxygen, Water, Light Were “Envisaged” for Us at the Very Beginning

Biologist Michael Denton takes a long view — the longest view imaginable in our universe. Read More ›
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New Movie Reveals the “Hidden Hand Behind Our Universe”

A great deal of evidence indicates that the universe (space, time, matter, and energy) came into existence from nothing about 14 billion years ago. Read More ›
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Can Formless Matter Exist? A Pitfall in Reading Biblical Texts

The solution is to go back to the source and follow the text to see what it actually says. Read More ›
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Active Matter: How Function Determines Structure

As always, the approach of naturalism is to reduce the complexity of natural phenomena to basic physical laws. Read More ›
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God Hypothesis Comes to Theaters Nationally in April!

The film features a diverse range of scientists, some familiar to those who follow the work of the Center for Science and Culture, but others very much not. Read More ›
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Foundational Evidence for Design: The Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics

For almost the last 40 years, I have understood the truth of Gange's statement based on its foundation in well-established laws of physics. Read More ›
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The Ingenious Cellular Structure that Keeps Us Alive

In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Voila! Read More ›
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Irreducible Intelligence: The Ultimate Origin of Biological Information

The more an environment is tuned to amplify probability, the more improbable that environment becomes, requiring further explanation. Read More ›

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