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Sarah Chaffee

Jovian Tempest
information
Image: "Jovian Tempest," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran.

Physicist Brian Miller on Information as the Basis of the Universe

Increasingly, the direction of research points away from a materialist view in which information is seen as a byproduct of matter. Read More ›
church
Photo credit: BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

How Naturalism Morphed into a State Religion 

No threat to science today is in any way comparable to that posed by the state church of post-modern naturalism. Read More ›
CRISPR
genetic engineering
Image credit: Ernesto del Aguila III, NHGRI [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

What Does Gene-Editing with CRISPR Portend for Bioethics?

Wesley Smith describes a range of consequences of viewing human beings as resources to be manipulated and exploited. Read More ›
bee and flower
co-evolution
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For Beleaguered Computer Simulations of Evolution, Can Co-Evolution Save the Day?

A familiar illustration of co-evolution is the relationship between honey bees and flowers. Read More ›
Golden Record

If No One Can Play It, Is It Music?

Archiving music in DNA for future generations sounds promising, as long as the playback directions are not forgotten. Read More ›
Jeremy-England

Dan Brown Thriller Has MIT’s Jeremy England in It; Brian Miller Puts the Science in Perspective

I’m reading Brown’s new Robert Langdon novel, Origin. There’s a decent chance you are too. Read More ›
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America
Photo credit: NASA.

In Science Education, Academic Freedom Makes Progress Across America

Sarah Chaffee spoke to AF proponents in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas. Read More ›
Crab Nebula
universe
Image: Crab Nebula, via NASA, ESA, NRAO/AUI/NSF and G. Dubner (University of Buenos Aires).

Bubble Universes, Inflationary Cosmology, and Infinitesimal Odds

How many ways will naturalists find to evade the implications of cosmic fine tuning? Read More ›
free lunch
free lunch
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Materialist Origin-of-Life Solutions All Depend on a “Free Lunch”

This from Nature Reviews Chemistry caught our eye – an unexpectedly candid admission of how far origin-of-life research is from shedding real light on its subject. Read More ›
Blue Ice, South Greenland
thermodynamics
Photo credit: Visit Greenland from Nuuk, Greenland (Blue ice in South Greenland) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Tornadoes, Ice, and Cells: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to Origin-of-Life Scenarios

This is a subject on which materialists are largely silent, and with good reason. Read More ›

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