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Photo: Geysers on Enceladus, via NASA.

Intelligent Design and Planetary Timing 

Enceladus is an especially fascinating case. Nearly 100 geysers of water ice are currently jetting out of its south pole at supersonic speed. Read More ›
mathematics
Image credit: Tom Brown, via Flickr (cropped).

Mathematics and the God Hypothesis

There is a classical proof of God’s existence that uses universal concepts such as mathematics, proposed most prominently by St. Augustine. Read More ›
Venus
Photo: Venus, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

New Analysis Casts Doubt on Claims for Life on Venus

The newer study agrees that the composition of Venus’s atmosphere is unusual but not that it is evidence for life. Read More ›
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Image: Carl Sagan, by NASA/Cosmos Studies.

Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”

It’s the evidence from Sagan’s fiction and other popular writing that is especially provocative. Read More ›
Uranus
Photo: Uranus, by NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Casey Luskin: Questions Across the Cosmos

Following his wonderful talk at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, geologist Casey Luskin took questions from the audience. Read More ›
Maxwell Montes
Photo: Maxwell Montes, by NASA/JPL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Astrobiology Points to the “Miracle of Man”

Scientists are making observations that add to Denton’s case, further constraining the requirements for habitability. Read More ›
Rafting monkey
Photo: Rafting monkey, by Jdlrobson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Read More ›
Earthrise
Photo: Earthrise, by Bill Anders, Apollo 8, via NASA.

Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There

The Copernican Principle has been misused to imply that Earth is somehow insignificant. That is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science. Read More ›
Hawking zero gravity
Hawking zero gravity
Photo credit: Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Meyer: Quantum Cosmology, the Multiverse, and Stephen Hawking

Newton, Kepler, and other founders of modern science were inspired to search out and find the rational order hidden in nature because they were theists. Read More ›
San Francisco from space
Photo: San Francisco from space, by NASA.

Our Finely Tuned Planet Suggests More than Dumb Luck

When one takes all the evidence together, a better explanation for our finely tuned place in the cosmos is a fine-tuner, a designing intelligence. Read More ›

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