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Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition
Image: Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition, by Cristiano Banti / Public domain.

Coming Soon to DiscoveryU: Live Courses on Science and Christianity

The pilot course, Science and Christianity I: A Historical Exploration, begins on July 10 and will be the first in a three-part module taught by yours truly. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Yathin sk, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sandgrouse Takes the Royal Society to Design School

Episode guest Brian Miller talks with host Casey Luskin about the details of the ingenious design. Read More ›
Ryugu
Photo: Asteroid Ryugu, by Stuart Rankin, via Flickr (cropped).

Uracil Discovered on Asteroid Ryugu — What Does It Mean for the Origin of Life?

These Ryugu samples appear to be our first chance to examine which organic compounds may be produced in a prebiotic setting in our solar system. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ivan Bandura via Unsplash.

Is a New Design-Based Paradigm of Biology Emerging?

Brian Miller reports that optimality is becoming a tool of prediction in biology, with more biologists returning to the use of design-based assumptions. Read More ›
Hippocrates
Euthanasia
Image: Hippocrates, Stuyvesant Polyclinic, New York, NY, by Tony Fischer via Flickr.

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Read More ›
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Image credit: Arek Socha via Pixabay.

James Tour on Origin-of-Life Dealbreakers

Tour doesn’t argue researchers will never be able to design a cell from non-living matter. He does say that if it is achieved, it will be well into the future. Read More ›
Star trails from the International Space Station
Photo: Star trails from the International Space Station, by NASA/Don Pettit.

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Read More ›
Newton by Blake
Image: Isaac Newton, by William Blake [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›
Milky Way

Cosmic Fine-Tuning: A Look at the Implications

Does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists? Read More ›
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Photo: Skull of "Mrs. Ples," by José Braga; Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Casey Luskin Debunks a Museum’s Evolutionary Propaganda

Luskin and host Eric Anderson call evolutionary theory to task for being overly supple, offering just-so stories to explain a behavior AND its opposite. Read More ›

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