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Photo: Panel discussion at the Summer Seminar, by Nathan Jacobson.

Summer Seminars: A Transformative (and Free) Experience

The Summer Seminar presentations and discussions help equip participants with the tools they need to breathe new purpose into the scientific enterprise.  Read More ›
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Image credit: Ernst Haeckel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Revenge of the Turtle Lady 

You’ve probably heard the story about the old lady who tells a Famous Professor that the world is actually sitting on the back of giant turtle.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit.

Physicist Brian Miller on All the Levels of Fine-Tuning: “Somebody Knew You Were Coming”

Dr. Miller gave a concise summary of the evidence of fine-tuning, from the cosmic scale down to the planetary and the environmental, finally to the biological. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Mario Dobelmann on Unsplash.

What Lies Beyond Death? A Physicist’s Take

The very existence of life — the fact that we are here at all to the pose the question — calls for something more than physical nature. Read More ›
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Photo credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Clow, M.; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand.

Rejecting the Multiverse: Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer

It can be tempting to dismiss the idea of the multiverse as unobservable fantasy. Read More ›
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Physicist Eric Hedin on Entropy and the Origin of Life

Physics tells us pretty clearly that mindless nature degrades information; it doesn’t create it. Are there workarounds? Read More ›
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Watch: Dr. Hedin’s Dangerous Question

Eric Hedin was enjoying a productive career as a professor at Ball State University when atheist activists tried to cancel him. Read More ›
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Photo: Palawan swiftlets can hunt in the dark, another example of echolocation attributed to convergent evolution, along with bats, dolphins, and whales; by Andrea Giovanni Murachelli, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lee Spetner’s Critique of Convergent Evolution

We bring you the last of three interviews with MIT-trained physicist Lee Spetner. We were saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Spetner at 91 years old. Read More ›
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Atheist on the Ropes: Piers Morgan Confronts Richard Dawkins About ID and Stephen Meyer

There’s something wonderful about watching Dawkins being compelled to watch Stephen Meyer and then being obliged to respond. Read More ›
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Photo: Total solar eclipse, 2024, by NASA/Keegan Barber.

Fine-Tuning Is the Solution to the Mystery of the Constants

In his discussion of the constants in 1985, physicist Richard Feynman described the great challenge and mystery the constants pose to a final theory, Read More ›

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