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Photo: Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow and Privileged Planetco-author Jay W. Richards takes in the total eclipse of the sun; pictured here five minutes after totality.

I Saw the Eclipse, and I Want More! Now What?

The beauty of the night sky can be as inspirational and uplifting as a total solar eclipse. Read More ›
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I Witnessed the Perfect Solar Eclipse in Missouri. Amazing!

For those for short moments of totality, sun and moon fit hand and glove. Like a key and its lock. Read More ›
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Viewing the Eclipse from Salem, Oregon

The rabbi's wife took the best photo of the morning that I saw, with an iPhone, using two pairs of eclipse glasses as her filter. Read More ›
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Listen: Eclipse Led to the Privileged Planet Thesis

A perfect solar eclipse like the one on Monday was the inspiration for The Privileged Planet, an important and unusual book in the canon of intelligent design works. Read More ›
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Perfect Eclipses: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

The best time and place to view total solar eclipses in our Solar System is just when and where there are observers to see them. Let that sink in. Read More ›
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Photo credit: National Park Service.

Solar Eclipses and Life

The basic idea is that meeting the requirements for the habitability of the Earth for observers makes it more likely that solar eclipses are possible. Read More ›
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Image credit: vancarlosfr, via Pixabay.

Don’t Miss the Solar Eclipse! (Unless You Are Ill, or Trapped in a Dungeon)

C’mon. This is the first time in almost a century that a total eclipse will traverse the fruited plains from coast to coast. Read More ›

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