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Darwin Devolves Book Party - Michael Behe John West

Clouds Part: More Photos of Behe Book Celebration

It was a dark and stormy night in Seattle yesterday until, I noticed, just when Mike Behe was scheduled to speak. 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 ›
eclipse from ISS
eclipse
Photo: Lunar shadow in total solar eclipse seen from the International Space Station, March 29, 2006, via NASA.

Perfect Eclipses: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Today we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the solar eclipse that, on May 29, 1919, physicist Arthur Eddington observed, seeking to test the General Theory of Relativity. Read More ›
ISS
Photo: International Space Station, NASA/Roscosmos.

Gonzalez: “Worlds Like This Are Hard to Come By”

How special the Earth is has become ever more apparent, in ways that allow life to flourish, but more than that. Read More ›
sun and earth
The Privileged Planet
Photo: The Earth and the Sun, as seen from the International Space Station, by NASA.

On the 15th Anniversary of The Privileged Planet: An Update

The basic thesis of TPP is that the best places for intelligent observers are also the best places for observing. Read More ›
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“No Astronomical Investigations of Importance” in the Middle Ages? Not True!

Michael Keas offers an important corrective to falsehoods that students are still learning at this very moment. Read More ›
planetoid
moon rock
Image: A planetoid collides with the early Earth, by Don Davis (work commissioned by NASA) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Earth Rock from the Moon: Treasure in the Lunar Attic Confirms a Design Prediction

The Discovery Principle led me to consider looking to the Moon to study the origin of life empirically. Read More ›
lunar eclipse
Dark Ages
Photo: In a lunar eclipse, the shape of the Earth, round not flat, is obvious; by Rocky Raybellvia Flickr(cropped).

Listen: “Not Dark Ages After All”

Educated people in the medieval period were well aware that the Earth is round, a fact immediately evident when you see a lunar eclipse. Read More ›
lunar ecliipse
Dark Ages
Photo credit: Lunar eclipse as seen from Seattle, WA, by Diane Medved.

Of Lunar Eclipses and the Dark Ages Myth

Last night Americans across the continent were treated to a most beautiful and informative natural phenomenon. Read More ›
Apollo 8 crew
intelligent design
Photo: Crew of Apollo 8, James A. Lovell Jr., William A. Anders, Frank Borman, by NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. 

Intelligent Design from Space: Guillermo Gonzalez, Stephen Meyer on the Apollo 8 Anniversary

Much as the world appreciated the “noble and poetic moment,” at the time it could be waved away as mere poetry — more sentiment than science. Read More ›

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