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Natalie Wolchover

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Photo: Large Hadron Collider, by gamsiz, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Miraculously” Fine-Tuned Universe? Evidence from the Large Hadron Collider

The continued spookiness of the fine-tuning of the interactions in the universe is a constant threat to materialism. Read More ›
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Photo: Violin fine tuners, Kyle McDonald, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Messy Numbers that Signify Cosmic Design

If you’ve ever tuned a violin, you’ll know that the arrangement of the fine tuners on the tailpiece, once you’re done, looks arbitrary. Read More ›
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Are the Laws of the Universe “Inevitable”?

What is inevitable here is not the mathematical beauty of physical law, but the circumlocutions scientists use to evade design in nature. Read More ›
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Question for Multiverse Theorists: To What Can Science Appeal if Not Evidence?

They could just as well say that whatever created horses created unicorns, too. Read More ›
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On Origin of Life, Synthetic Chemist James Tour Delivers Chastisement to Jeremy England

“[U]nder certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life.” Oh, really, does it? Read More ›
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Hailed as the “Next Darwin,” MIT’s Jeremy England Sheds Little Light on Life’s Origins

England’s research is focused on the wrong question. Origin-of-life theories are not helped by identifying processes that efficiently dissipate energy. Read More ›
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What Becomes of Science When the Evidence Does Not Matter?

Fine-tuning of the universe is so unpleasant a subject for materialists that it cannot really become a controversy. Read More ›

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