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Fossil Friday: No, Magnetic Field Collapse Did Not Trigger the Emergence of Animals

This adds to the many points of fine-tuning that make Earth a privileged planet that can uniquely sustain life. Read More ›
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Leveraging the Design Inference for Effectively Falsifying Data

The academy raises generation after generation of inept data falsifiers who embrace the foolish naiveté that their shenanigans are immune to discovery. Read More ›
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Photo: Blind spot, by Ellery, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Lived Experience” Is Science’s Blind Spot

They are right about the dead ends. But is it true that the dead ends result merely from ignoring human experience? Read More ›
Dumbbell Nebula
Photo: Dumbbell Nebula, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›
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pocket watch
Photo credit: André Lage Freitas / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Design on Time — Paley’s Watch Was Inside Him

Watches are everywhere on the heath. Look up, look down, look inside; biology runs on time. Read More ›
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Photo: Phillip and Kathie Johnson at Pajaro Dunes, California.

Phillip E. Johnson: Gandalf Has Gone to the West

Phillip E. put it this way: “Take the ring to Mount Doom where only a miracle will save you and see.” This is one of the key lessons he taught me: dare to win. Read More ›
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Washington Post Boosts Elderly “Rational Suicide”

The story ends with the phone number of a suicide prevention hotline. That’s just a sop after potentially putting lethal ideas into readers’ heads. Read More ›
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Human Designers Struggle to Match Biological Designs

Mother-of-pearl, or nacre, is not only a beautiful substance for jewelry and ceramics; it is a remarkable material. Read More ›
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“Optimism” and a Lonely Planet

Adam Frank (University of Rochester) interviewed fellow astrophysicist Avi Loeb (Harvard) about the future possibility of detecting “techno-signatures” from space. Read More ›

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