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C. S. Lewis
Photo: C. S. Lewis, by Asar Studios/Alamy (Photo by Hans Wild/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images).

C. S. Lewis Unmasks the Pretensions of SETI

How can METI / SETI advocates repudiate intelligent design while depending on the design inference for their work? Read More ›
Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
Photo: Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, by Mihaisiscanu, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

SETI Activists Still Don’t Get the Irony

Most SETI advocates stringently oppose intelligent design even as they rely on it. Read More ›
DNA
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The Origin of Life and the Information Enigma

In 1953, when Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of the DNA molecule, they made a startling discovery. Read More ›
Sisyphus
Image: Sisyphus forever pushing the rock up the hill, by Titian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Intelligent Design a Science Stopper?

Consider a box with an internal divider such that the box is divided into two separate compartments, A and B. Read More ›
alien life
alien life
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The Most Valuable Aspect of Avi Loeb’s Intelligent Design Case

The most valuable aspect of his case is the stimulus it provides to the question, "If non-human intelligences exist, how would we detect them?" Read More ›
Orion Nebula
Photo: Orion Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI.

How Materialists Rely on Intelligent Design

They will mock, attack, and ignore intelligent design theory. But evolutionists love using it in their own ways. Read More ›
Rare Earth

Rare Earth at Twenty — And My Connection

In principle, the conjoining of the many Rare Earth factors could overwhelm the available probabilistic resources and serve as evidence for Earth’s design. Read More ›
Sherlock-Holmes

“Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact”

We are not saying DNA is like a message. Rather, DNA is a message. Read More ›
TRAPPIST-1

The “Surprisingly Consistent” Answer to the Question: Are We Alone in the Universe?

The firm belief in extraterrestrial life — a belief nearly universal in the scientific community — is an act of faith. Read More ›
Arecibo

Foe of Intelligent Design Makes a Great Case for ID Science

Steven Novella is a Yale neurologist who has consistently denied that ID is a valid scientific inference. Read More ›

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