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Bruno
storytelling
Photo: Monument to Giordano Bruno, Rome, by Francesca Soria [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Giordano Bruno: A Martyr, Yes, but Not for Science

Bruno was not executed for his view that we live in a vast universe with vast numbers of planets. Read More ›
E. coli
Darwinism
Image: E. coli bacteria, by Joaquin D Taylor [CC BY 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinism — Like Every Other Known Natural Process — Devolves 

Natural selection is not, after all, the one natural process in the universe that can make nature run backward. Read More ›
Mike Keas
Photo: Mike Keas, by Robert Crowther. 

Listen: No, Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion

Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the Earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe. Read More ›
Hubble
Hubble’s Law
Photos: Edwin Hubble (above) in 1931, by Johan Hagemeyer (1884-1962) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; Georges Lamaître (below), via Wikimedia Commons.

Proper Credit — Who Discovered Hubble’s Law?

Many leading scientists of the day realized the implication of the cosmic expansion — there was a beginning!  Read More ›
Earth and space
Christianity
Photo: The edge of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station, via NASA.

Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

Atheists say people in the Western tradition had to wait for modern science to grasp that the universe was huge, and had to shed historic Judeo-Christian views to do so. Read More ›
universe by chance

Last Weekend to Register for Dallas Conference on Science and Faith

Here’s an ominous polling result: Students on college campuses in the U.S. increasingly agree that the origin of the universe was a chance event. Read More ›
Keas book

Michael Keas and Unbelievable: Scientists and the Myths They Cherish

The myth merchants play on our egos, the wish to appear smart and enlightened. Against this emotional manipulation, Keas detonates six myths about our world and the universe. Read More ›
Nobel Prize
Photo: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, by Adam Baker, via Flickr.

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2018: It’s Not “Evolution” — A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes

In effect, protein engineers are using the power of random change plus intelligent design to see what if anything will improve function. Read More ›
coin flip
randomness
Photo credit: Nicu Buculei, via Flickr(cropped).

Robert Marks: Randomness and the Enigma of Creativity

Only a freely acting, designing agent resolves the mystery. Only such an agent creates, truly, ex nihilo. Read More ›
David Hume
Photo: Statue of David Hume, Edinburgh, Scotland, by Bandan [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›

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