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The Privileged Planet

Carl Sagan
Image: Carl Sagan lectures to school kids, in a scene from Cosmos (screen shot).

Jay Richards: God, Carl Sagan, and Word Games

When the vast majority of people speak about God, they have in mind a powerful, conscious Creator. Sagan plays games by redefining the meaning of “God.” Read More ›
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Image credit: vancarlosfr, via Pixabay.

Eclipse Miracle — An ID Book for Children

It is encouraging to me that someone else came to the same basic conclusion as I did following my observation of a total solar eclipse in India in 1995. 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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Photo credit: BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Is ID Bad Theology? No, but the Objection Is

Mark Vernon has mistaken a narrow deism for theism and then charged theists with blasphemy for considering God free to act within the created order. Read More ›
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Mathematics, Biology, and Awesome Wonder

“Infinite Patterns” starts with a simple triangle and builds to the most magnificent representations of human and nature’s designs. Read More ›
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Photo: Astronaut Peggy Whitson on a spacewalk, March 2017, by NASA.

Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel

A skeptic might ask, “Couldn’t a more technologically advanced civilization develop new sources of fuel that require less mass?” Read More ›
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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.

How a Perfect Solar Eclipse Suggests Intelligent Design

Perfect eclipses aren’t just eerie and beautiful. They’ve helped scientists test and discover things, and they are part of a larger pattern. Read More ›
New view of the Pillars of Creation — infrared
Photo: Pillars of Creation, Eagle Nebula, by NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team.

Are Cosmic and Planetary Fine-Tuning Constant?

The stability of atoms, stars, and people depends on finely tuned physical laws and constants in the local universe. But are they fixed throughout space and time? Read More ›
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Photo: A scene from “Why Our Sun and Atmosphere Appear Intelligently Designed,” with Michael Denton, via Discovery Institute.

For Earth Day, Let’s Appreciate Our Planet’s Intelligent Design

That’s the “new path” I’d recommended, as a counter to the prevailing pessimism of our culture. Read More ›

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