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Search for Habitable Planets Is a Design Detection Exercise

The extent of habitable space within all space can serve as a determinant of the plausibility of naturalism vs intelligent design. Read More ›
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Fine-Timing as Evidence of Intelligent Design

Sometimes it’s not just the tuning that indicates design. Sometimes it’s the timing as well. Read More ›
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Secrets that Give Sea Lions and Jellyfish Their Edge as Swimmers

The world’s best human designers are attempting to build machines to mimic what these animals “naturally do. Read More ›
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Another Attempt by an Esteemed Cosmologist to Avoid a Cosmic Beginning Collapses on Inspection

Roger Penrose, one of the preeminent physicists of our day, envisions that the universe is eternally expanding. Read More ›
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Fossil Follies from Around the Science Literature

Evolutionary anthropologists will have to drastically revise the timeline of the first human arrivals in North America. Read More ›
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Photo: Surface of Mars as seen from the Curiosity rover, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Methane Causes Space Aliens?

Recent sensational headlines give astute readers occasion to contrast valid scientific inferences from leaps of faith based on worldview assumptions. Read More ›
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A Flea Circus of Small Animal Acrobats

Small animals amuse and amaze scientists who take a close look at them in action. Sometimes it requires a high-speed camera to analyze the trick. Read More ›
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Futuristic Evolution by AI — The Darwin Connection

To evolutionists, whatever oversight humans achieved must have evolved, and will continue to evolve in our creations. Read More ›
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Answering Another Objection to Intelligent Design: “You Can’t Prove God Exists”

Now it’s possible that physics-based arguments for design could extend the argument further than you can go within biological design. Read More ›

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