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Tickets Available Now: New Film Tells of Cosmic Beginning and the God Hypothesis

In a beautiful, exciting, deeply informed film, scientists and scholars explain why the story of meaning and purpose in a created universe has been vindicated. Read More ›
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Photo: "Celebrating NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s 20th Anniversary: Crater Near Sirenum Fossae," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.

Sean Carroll and the Counter-Evidence Considered

My present concern is to articulate and confront Carroll's charge that the fine-tuning argument engages in some evidential shenanigans. Read More ›
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Science Before the Scientific Revolution: What Can We Learn from It?

Ancient and medieval thinkers possessed impressive reasoning powers despite lacking modern technology and data. Read More ›
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God Hypothesis Comes to Theaters Nationally in April!

The film features a diverse range of scientists, some familiar to those who follow the work of the Center for Science and Culture, but others very much not. Read More ›
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Philosopher Steve Fuller on Science, Censorship, and the “Church of Darwin”

The conversation delves into the institutional censorship within modern science, where ID concepts are effectively barred from professional journals. Read More ›
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In Science, Faith Can Improve Rigor and Creativity

Contrary to the prevailing view, plant geneticist Richard Buggs says his Christian faith motivates his research. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Read More ›
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John West: Science’s Debt to Intelligent Design Is Not Just in the Past — But Today

The God hypothesis… Where have I heard that phrase, used by columnist Ross Douthat, before? Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer: Did Belief in God Make Modern Science Possible?

Dr. Meyer explains the difference between mathematical information, or Shannon information, and specified information, a more meaningful type of information. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL Team.

Finding Beauty and Harmony in the Sciences

Melissa Cain Travis expounds on what she calls the principle of cosmic comprehensibility, the idea that the universe is intelligible to us. Read More ›

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