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Apart from Non-Material Consciousness, Science Is Impossible

Whether and how we choose to measure something has a big impact, which makers consciousness very difficult to just explain away. Read More ›
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Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell

In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life. Read More ›
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Is the Multiverse Science or Religion?

Or pseudoscience? A no-nonsense theoretical physicist reveals a gift for comedy as she tries to explain theories that place no constraints on what can happen. Read More ›
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Image: Jupiter via James Webb Space Telescope, from NASA, CC 2.0.

James Webb Telescope Goes Live: Stephen Meyer Reports

The Webb telescope can see far enough to witness galaxies from the very early universe. Read More ›
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Photo: Saturn’s North Pole hexagon, via NASA/JPL-Caltech, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.

Applying the Design Filter to Hexagons

The hexagon on Saturn performs no function. Columnar basalt doesn’t say anything. Snowflakes don’t carry a message. They are mere emergent phenomena. Read More ›
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Listen: Dr. Meyer in the Multiverse of Madness

A multiverse would require a multiverse-generating device, and it would have to be exquisitely fine-tuned to generate even one habitable universe. Read More ›
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Photo: Cavefish (Phreatichthys andruzzii), by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Brian Miller: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Engineering in the Biological Sciences”

Dr. Miller takes on a number of specific examples including the celebrated eyeless cavefish, which he “used to think was an absolute win for microevolution.” Read More ›
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A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism

“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead. Read More ›
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Photo: NGC 6891, by NASA, ESA, A. Hajian (University of Waterloo), H. Bond (Pennsylvania State University), and B. Balick (University of Washington); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America).

What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design and What Are Its Theistic Implications?

Before Darwin, biologists attributed the beauty, integrated complexity, and adaptation of organisms to their environments to a powerful designing intelligence. Read More ›
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Photo: Sea otters seem to enjoy grooming, by "Mike" Michael L. Baird, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hairy Matters for Evolution

Thin strands we call hair can give headaches to Darwinists. Here are some surprising stories about hair. Read More ›

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