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C. S. Lewis
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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 ›
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Photo: A medium exuding "ectoplasm," by Harvey Metcalfe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science

One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, "natural selection." Read More ›
Lawrence Krauss
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Physicist Brian Miller Answers the Big Bang Evaders

These evasions include the steady state model, the idea of an eternal cyclical universe, and the string landscape model. Read More ›
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Hawking zero gravity
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Efforts to Resist the Big Bang and Its Implications for Cosmic Design

Unsurprisingly, many academics have attempted to overturn the conclusion of a beginning through the most creative of means. Read More ›
Sophia
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Robert J. Marks on Why AI Won’t Destroy the World, or Save It

Will robots or other computers ever become so fast and powerful that they become conscious, creative, and free? Read More ›
Stephen Hawking
Photo: Stephen Hawking, by NASA HQ Photo, via Flickr (cropped).

Rabbi Moshe Averick Takes on Stephen Hawking’s Nonsense of a High Order

Averick describes the work as “superficial,” “convenient,” and marked by “a glaring lack of profundity.” Read More ›
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Photo: Aurora borealis, by NASA/ Bill Dunford.

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Again Desperately Attempts to Avoid a Cosmic Beginning

If the model were plausible, the level of fine-tuning would represent even greater evidence of design than it was intended to avoid by removing the beginning. Read More ›
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How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin 

I had once assumed that any opposition to Darwin must necessarily be confined to the ranks of such as Biblical fundamentalists. Read More ›
Metaxas Meyer
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Stephen Meyer, Eric Metaxas: Are Atheists Gaslighting Us?

Metaxas gently chides Dr. Meyer for his graciousness to opponents in the world of scientific atheism. Read More ›
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Meyer: No Escape from a Mind Behind the Universe

Cosmologists of an atheist disposition have been seeking an escape hatch from the implications of the Big Bang. Read More ›

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