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Date
March 23, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, beauty, biologists, bit string, cellular life, Charles Darwin, cosmos, David Berlinski, digital information, DNA, Eric Esau, Fathom Entertainment, fine-tuning, Francis Crick, human interference, intelligent design, James Watson, laboratory equipment, living cell, mid-century modern, miracle, molecular machines, New York Times, origin of life, philosophers, proteins, Rice University, Richard Sternberg, scientific discoveries, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theaters, tickets, Timothy McGrew, truth, universe, wonder}

The Information Enigma and Gratuitous Beauty: In Theaters on April 30

_{Science & Culture
March 23, 2026

Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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It's intelligent design as you've never seen it before. Find inspiration, and share it with friends and family. Read More ›

Lone motorcyclist riding on an open road in a black and white landscape

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Author
George Montañez

Date
March 22, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, accolades, artificial intelligence, atoms, biological origins, career, chemical reactions, cognitive simulation, community, computer science, cosmos, cremation, death, design detection, faith and science, intelligent design, love, machine learning, materialist paradigm, mathematics, motorcycle, natural theology, nature, peers, resurrection, tears, unguided processes, universe, YouTube videos}

The Matters that Matter: What I Learned from My Brother’s Death

_{George Montañez
March 22, 2026

Computational Sciences, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I’ve built my professional career on twin pillars. The first is cognitive simulation, that is, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Read More ›

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Date
March 18, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physics
Tagged
, biology, chemistry, comets, documentaries, Eric Esau, evidence, faith and science, fine-tuning, Fred Hoyle, galaxy, Goldilocks, Isaac Newton, movies, New York Times, Oxford University, physical laws, physical parameters, physics, planets, Return of the God Hypothesis, simulation theory, Stephen Meyer, sun, The Story of Everything, tickets, Timothy McGrew, Tulane University, UC San Diego, universe, University of Pittsburgh}

A Goldilocks Universe, Designed for Us: New Film in Theaters on April 30

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March 18, 2026

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physics

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As philosopher Timothy McGrew puts it, we live in a universe “bearing everywhere the fingerprints of its Creator.” Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, assumptions, background information, Bayes factor, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian confirmation theory, Bayesian reasoning, Clark Glymour, confidence, denominators, Dutch book argument, epistemic probabilities, evidence, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, general relativity, General Theory of Relativity, hypothesis, likelihood, likelihood ratio, marginal probability, mental state, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, normalization factor, panpsychism, pantheism, posterior probability, prior probability, probabilities, psychological states, Sean Carroll, subjectivism, subjectivist Bayesianism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, universe}

Bayesian Methodology and the Fine-Tuning Argument

_{Bruce Gordon
March 17, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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To use Clark Glymour’s example, Einstein's general theory of relativity explained the anomalous precession of Mercury's perihelion. Read More ›

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Date
March 13, 2026

Categories
Arts
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Allan Sandage, bad dream, Big Bang, Brian Josephson, chance, Charles Murray, Christianity, designer, Eric Esau, faith, Georges Lemaître, God and the Astronomers, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Larry Sanger, Lawrence Krauss, material reality, New York Times, physical laws, priests, reason, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Robert Jastrow, scientific revolution, scientists, Stephen Meyer, stories, supernatural, The Story of Everything, theologians, theoretical physicists, unintelligent forces, universe, Wikipedia}

Tickets Available Now: New Film Tells of Cosmic Beginning and the God Hypothesis

_{Science & Culture
March 13, 2026

Arts, Cosmology, Faith & Science

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In a beautiful, exciting, deeply informed film, scientists and scholars explain why the story of meaning and purpose in a created universe has been vindicated. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 12, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, almightiness, Aquinas, Big Bang, bodily fluids, bread, Christian Church, Christianity, Chrysostom, conservation of matter, early church, entropy, galaxies, heavens, heretics, immutability, modern science, natural processes, Origen, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, theology, theory of relativity, universe}

Is Matter Conserved? Ancient and Modern Views

_{Winston Ewert
March 12, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science

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Christians accepted that the principle, nothing comes from nothing, was true for processes in nature. God, however, was not bound by this limitation. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Aristotelian cosmos, Copernican displacement, cosmic enormity, cosmic scale, cosmology, Dante, demotion, divine hiddenness, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, Hell, human centrality, intelligent cause, intelligibility, methodology, motivation, natural philosophy, naturalism, posteriors, priors, promotion, Psalms, Robert B. Stewart, Satan, scientific revolution, Scripture, Sean Carroll, Stephen Meyer, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Apologetics, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, Timothy McGrew, universe}

Sean Carroll and the Counter-Evidence Considered

_{Bruce Gordon
March 11, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

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My present concern is to articulate and confront Carroll's charge that the fine-tuning argument engages in some evidential shenanigans. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 5, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, Albuquerque, algorithms, alternative splicing, amino acid sequences, Andrew McDiarmid, Brian Josephson, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, David Waltham, digital information, discoveries, earth, Earth-like planets, enzymes, fundamental constants, genes, ID the Future, information processing, initial conditions, junk DNA, life, Lucky Planet, Michael Kent, molecular biology, molecular machines, mutation, natural selection, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sandia National Laboratories, spliceosome, Stephen Meyer, universe, Why Evolution Is Different}

Stay Informed about the Evidence for Design, with Michael Kent

_{Granville Sewell
March 5, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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Technological advances have led to the discovery of planets outside our solar system, with news heralding the discovery of many “earth-like” planets. Read More ›

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Date
March 4, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, accidents, Ben Shapiro, Bible, biologists, biology, Center for Science and Culture, chemistry, cosmology, creationism, Eric Esau, film, intelligent design, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, materialist world view, matter, meaning, media, mind, movies, natural selection, Nobel laureates, philosophy, Piers Morgan, religion, science, scientific discoveries, scientific revolution, scientists, significance, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theology, ultimate meaning, universe}

God Hypothesis Comes to Theaters Nationally in April!

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March 4, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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The film features a diverse range of scientists, some familiar to those who follow the work of the Center for Science and Culture, but others very much not. Read More ›

Capture the essence of collective consciousness through digital connectivity by visualizing it in a dynamic and visually striking manner from a worms-eye view Create a design that symbolizes

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
March 4, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, artificial intelligence, awareness, brain, brain localization, brain processes, Brian Krouse, cognitive science, computer engineering, computer science, consciousness, Denyse O’Leary, emergentism, George Gilder, idealism, integrated information, Integrated information theory, mental properties, Michael Egnor, microtubules, mind, mind–brain dualism, Minding the Brain, naturalism, neuroscience, neurosurgery, panpsychism, particles, philosophy, psychology, quantum consciousness, quantum mechanics, Roger Penrose, simulation theory, Stuart Hameroff, The Immortal Mind, The Matrix, The Truman Show, universe}

Conscious AI, You Say? Here Are Six Models of Consciousness

_{Robert J. Marks II
March 4, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a mathematically founded emergence model. Michael Egnor and I recently published a paper critiquing IIT. Read More ›