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Photo credit: Jp Valery on Unsplash.

We Are Children of Light and Water: Dr. Michael Denton

“In this vast range, there’s only one…infinitesimally small band which has the right energy for photosynthesis,” a prerequisite for human life. Coincidence? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Guillermo Gonzalez.

Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery

Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Brigitte Bourger Brigitte Bourger, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Geological Habitability Parameters Imply Earth is Special and Advanced Life Extremely Rare

One thing that is likely to get some pushback is the study’s claim that modern-style plate tectonics on Earth did not commence until the Neoproterozoic. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Larsz/Lars Plougmann, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›
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Image credit: fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons.

Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Read More ›
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Photo: Geysers on Enceladus, via NASA.

Intelligent Design and Planetary Timing 

Enceladus is an especially fascinating case. Nearly 100 geysers of water ice are currently jetting out of its south pole at supersonic speed. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NPS, Patrick Taylor.

Prior Fitness for Life: The Problem of Boron

The atomic element boron is essential for life, but how do you get it from stars to plants and animals? Read More ›
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Photo: Bronzitite, by Kevin Walsh, via Flickr.

Good Earth: Luskin Explores Design Evidence from Geology

That’s a sample of bronzitite at the top of this post. It's like a cosmic wink from the creator. Read More ›
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What Is the Positive Case for Intelligent Design?

Imagine that you took your 4x4 truck off-roading and you returned home with the truck covered in mud. Read More ›
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First Couple
Image: Adam and Eve, by Tintoretto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Luskin: Adam and Eve and the Evolving Scientific Consensus

Scientists have become much more reticent about saying the first couple must be no more than a product of the ancient Hebrew imagination. Read More ›

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