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Earth

A Panicked Scientist, a Privileged Planet

Our planet’s view of the sun is critical to life, obviously, but equally critical is that it’s a shielded view. Read More ›
Stephen Hawking's Universe

“Spontaneous Creation”: Meyer on Stephen Hawking’s Category Error

He asked poignantly in A Brief History of Time, “What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Read More ›
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John Lennox: The Irony of Stephen Hawking’s Atheism

A universe from nothing, for materialists, may be the single largest problem, among a variety of others. Read More ›
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The Universe Reflects a Mind

Philosopher Phillip Goff is, intriguingly, on the right track but he errs in his subsequent inference to cosmopsychism. Read More ›
Earth

“The Ultimate Bootstrap”

Caleb Scharf explores the degrees of magnitude separating the immensity of the universe from the smallest particle of matter. Read More ›
Jovian Tempest
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Image: "Jovian Tempest," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran.

Physicist Brian Miller on Information as the Basis of the Universe

Increasingly, the direction of research points away from a materialist view in which information is seen as a byproduct of matter. Read More ›
Big Bang
Image source: spirit111, via Pixabay.

ID’s Top Six — The Fine-Tuning of the Universe

Some scientists respond, “Well, there must be an enormous number of universes and each one is a little different. This one just happened to turn out right.” Read More ›
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Photo: Georges Lemaître, about 1933, via Wikicommons.

ID’s Top Six — The Origin of the Universe

In 1927, Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître theorized that the universe began with a single explosion from a densely compacted state. Read More ›

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