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Photo credit: Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Our Lush World: Considering the Problem of Beauty

“If, on the other hand, one views nature as ingenious artwork that cannot be reduced to the question of utility alone, these problems disappear.” Read More ›
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Image: An artist imagines a black hole, by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.

Were We Made to Make Black Holes?

I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Read More ›
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Photo: Total solar eclipse, 2024, by NASA/Keegan Barber.

Richards to Aliens: We’ll Show You Our Perfect Solar Eclipses if You’ll Show Us Yours

Jay Richard had a really fun and interesting conversation with Sean McDowell about the new updated edition of his book with Guillermo Gonzalez. Read More ›
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Photo: CubeSats, by NASA/Tracy Dyson.

New Evidence that Supports the Privileged Planet Thesis

A newly revised, rewritten, and updated book refutes the materialistic assumptions of the Copernican principle. Read More ›
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Photo source: Uncommon Knowledge, via YouTube (screenshot).

Richards: The Most Earth-Like Planet Is Still … Mars

With the discovery of large numbers of exoplanets in the last twenty years, does Earth look as privileged as it once did? Read More ›
The Farm at the Center of the Universe
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Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Read More ›
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You’re Invited! Get the Total Solar Eclipse Experience, April 7-8, in Waxahachie, TX

Beyond the sensory experience lies something even more astonishing — a cosmological coincidence of metaphysical significance to human existence.  Read More ›
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Dallas Conference: Stephen Meyer on Why the “Front-Loaded” Design Explanation Fails, and More

Do note that some presentations will be livestreamed but others — including Dr. Meyer on “Intelligent Design as a Scientific Theory” — will be in-person only! Read More ›
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Photo: Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Intelligent Design and Fine-Tuning for Scientific Discovery

The reason this evidence of “fine-tuning for discovery” is so satisfying to me is not just because it defeats the anthropic principle. Read More ›
Top 6 Evidence for Intelligent Design
Image: "Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Gerald Eichstädt.

Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. Read More ›

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