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The Privileged Planet

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Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Macarena Garcia Marin (ESA Office at STScI).

The Delicate Balance of Dark Energy

The nature of dark energy brings to light one of the most powerful pieces of evidence for just how special our universe is to support life. Read More ›
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Photo: Earthset, by NASA/Artemis II.

Science and Beauty: The Lens of Triperspectivalism

To the non-scientist, it may come as a surprise that scientists would appeal to aesthetic standards in evaluating the validity of scientific theories. Read More ›
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Photo: Hallucigenia, by Han Zeng, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cambrian Explosion Remains the Gift that Keeps on Giving

These representative papers show that the Cambrian Explosion remains a huge enigma for evolutionists. Read More ›
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, William Shatner, and Science’s Next Great Frontier

The implications of such paradigm-altering evidence are well articulated by William Shatner in his interview. Read More ›
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The Story of Everything Dazzled Me: I Wasn’t Prepared

I’ve worked on successful documentary films, including a 2014 feature-length film that won multiple prizes; I’m not easily impressed. Read More ›
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The Search for Extraterrestrials: Keeping Hope Alive

The question looms: How much can science avoid facts while retaining the character of science? Read More ›
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Photo: Venus, by NASA/JPL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Geometric Design in the Solar System

My favorite example of such geometric design arises from the mean orbits of our innermost two planets, Mercury and Venus. Read More ›
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Photo: The perfect solar eclipse of 1919, by ESO/Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl/F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, & C. Davidson, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. J. Smartt, C. Kilpatrick.

Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism?

Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA/Michala Garrison, USGS.

The Growing Evidence of Earth’s Privilege

Astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez begins a two-part conversation with host Casey Luskin. Read More ›

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