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Photo: Total solar eclipse, 2024, by NASA/Keegan Barber.

Richards to Aliens: We’ll Show You Our Perfect Solar Eclipses if You’ll Show Us Yours

Jay Richard had a really fun and interesting conversation with Sean McDowell about the new updated edition of his book with Guillermo Gonzalez. Read More ›
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Image credit: Henrique Alvim Corrêa, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Belief in Aliens a Problem for Science?

King’s College philosophy prof Tony Milligan worries that too many people believe that aliens have visited Earth. Read More ›
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Photo: CubeSats, by NASA/Tracy Dyson.

New Evidence that Supports the Privileged Planet Thesis

A newly revised, rewritten, and updated book refutes the materialistic assumptions of the Copernican principle. Read More ›
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Image: The Doctor, by Luke Fildes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Theist Doctor, Materialist Doctor

To be a good medical doctor, you have to treat the human body as if its parts have purpose and function. There’s really no way around it. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash.

Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

It has, Douglas Youvan suggests, a dual nature, interacting with both matter and consciousness. Read More ›
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Wallace notebooks
Photo: Wallace's notebooks, at the Linnean Society, London, by John Cummings / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today — Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin

Wallace’s stance is remarkable in foreshadowing modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›
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Photo: Copernicus, by Pudelek, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards: Toppling a Myth of Human Insignificance

It was 19th-century materialism that needed the so-called Copernican demotion, for ideological reasons, and the historians of the time obediently invented it. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Johannes Plenio on Unsplash.

Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic? 

Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›
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Jay Richards: The 1890s Were a Much Better Time to Be an Atheist

Yes, ideas of a multiverse are taken “extremely seriously.” And those are obviously intended to counter the theistic implications of the familiar cosmology. Read More ›
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Photo: Total solar eclipse, 2024, by NASA/Keegan Barber.

Fine-Tuning Is the Solution to the Mystery of the Constants

In his discussion of the constants in 1985, physicist Richard Feynman described the great challenge and mystery the constants pose to a final theory, Read More ›

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