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Photo: Paul Steinhardt, by Sleepy Geek, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Avoid a Cosmic Beginning, Physicist Paul Steinhardt Goes to Extraordinary Lengths

Steinhardt is one of the most interesting and influential figures in cosmology. He was one of the original architects of inflationary cosmology. Read More ›
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More on Self-Replicating Machines

We know how to build a simple Ford Model T car. Now let’s build a factory inside this car, so that it can produce Model T cars automatically. Read More ›
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Photo: Venus, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

New Analysis Casts Doubt on Claims for Life on Venus

The newer study agrees that the composition of Venus’s atmosphere is unusual but not that it is evidence for life. Read More ›
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Photo: Earthrise, by Bill Anders, Apollo 8, via NASA.

Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There

The Copernican Principle has been misused to imply that Earth is somehow insignificant. That is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science. Read More ›
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Meyer on Front-Loaded Intelligent Design, and More

Stephen Meyer says he doesn’t have an in-principle objection to that idea. Read More ›
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Image: Kepler-442b (per the artist's imagination) along side Earth, by Ph03nix1986, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›
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Photo: James Tour in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

See It Now: James Tour and Brian Miller on Explaining the Origin of Life

They cover abiogenesis and “Natural Selection of the Gaps,” systems biology, design triangulation, whether life could arise anywhere without design, and more. Read More ›
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It’s Black Friday — What to Buy? Perhaps These ID-Themed Puzzles

One nice thing about Zazzle’s platform is that for each design, the customer can choose a size and difficulty level. Read More ›
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My Failed Computer Simulation

I said, “You mean there is a fifth force — why didn't you say so? Just give me the equations for this force and I will add it to my model.” Read More ›
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Bits and Bytes at the Bottom

A funny thing happened on the way to modern scientific materialism’s victory party. Read More ›

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