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James Webb Space Telescope
Photo: James Webb Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Webb Breaking the Big Bang Paradigm?

There is a lot of culture and philosophy built into the Big Bang theory as we understand it. Read More ›
Carina-Nebula
Photo credit: Carina Nebula, by James Webb Space Telescope via NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

Calm Down: Yes, the Big Bang Happened

Don Lincoln, a Fermilab scientist, addresses claims that infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope cast doubt on the veracity of the Big Bang. Read More ›
Plasmodium falciparum
Photo: Plasmodium falciparum, by Lukas.S at English Wikipedia(Original text: Lukas 05:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Much Can Evolution Really Accomplish?

Unsatisfied with circular evolutionary arguments and lazy reasoning, Michael Behe decided to pose his question to the real-world data. 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 ›
snowy lamppost
Selective focus on a tall, dark lamp post during a snow storm in the pacific northwest woodland
Image Credit: ColleenMichaels - Adobe Stock

C. S. Lewis Helps Us See Design in Three Dimensions

Just for a little while turn off the PBS science narrator in your head. Why should there be beauty? What is it for? Read More ›
Proxima Centauri
Image: Proxima Centauri and Proxima Centauri b (artist’s imagining), by ESO/M. Kornmesser / CC BY.

Is Space Travel Our Destiny?

I was motivated to do this study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths. Read More ›
Rare Earth
Photo credit: Coast of North Africa, by NASA via International Space Station.

Rare Earth at Twenty — And My Connection

In principle, the conjoining of the many Rare Earth factors could overwhelm the available probabilistic resources and serve as evidence for Earth’s design. Read More ›
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Remembering the First Manned Moon Landing at 50; What Does the Future Hold?

I remember watching the Apollo moon landings on TV from 1969 to 1972 as a child. Read More ›
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The Empty Heavens — Two Ways to Look at It

Adam Kirsch over the weekend had a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal, meditating on the coming 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. Read More ›
Douglas Axe
Douglas Axe
Photo: Douglas Axe, in a scene from the series Science Uprising “DNA: The Programmer.”

New Science Uprising Episode: “Programming Without a Programmer”?

To evolve a protein, Douglas Axe draws a comparison to seeking out — blindfolded! — a particular atom secreted away somewhere in the Milky Way. Read More ›

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