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For Extraterrestrial Life, All Credit to a Creator

As Casey Luskin reminds us, technology-using aliens would — by the intent of the cosmic design — need to live on a planet like ours with a physiology like ours. Read More ›
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In Seattle, Socialism Is the Flip Side of a Faulty Evolutionary Theory

Mayor Katie’s father is David Sloan Wilson, an esteemed evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University. Read More ›
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On the BGV Theorem and Eternal Cyclic Cosmology

The beginning of the universe doesn’t need to be singular, so doubts about a singularity don’t need to translate into doubts about a beginning. Read More ›
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The Story, and the Meaning, of Everything

The “nerve of the thing” — telling this story based on scientific evidence — would have barely raised an eyebrow among the founders of science. Read More ›
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Humans as “Beloved”: A Signature of Intelligent Design

A few minor shifts in how light interacts with matter and our sense of sight would be dulled to most of the visual beauty that we most appreciate in nature. Read More ›
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A Big Deal: In Wall Street Journal, Peter Robinson Welcomes Story of Everything

My colleague asked, “Has that happened before?” Not that I recall. Is something changing? Perhaps. Read More ›
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Contest of Cosmic Stories “Isn’t a Fair Fight”

As Bethel McGrew notes, the tradition of seeing the stars, planets, and the rest of space as pointing to a creator has a distinguished scientific history. Read More ›
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Good News: Young People Are Skeptical of AI — Even if Their Parents Aren’t

ChatGPT. Every student uses it to write papers. So goes the pervading fear, that is. Read More ›
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Jaime Escalante: Why a Heroic Teacher Matters to Intelligent Design

Anyone who has studied the history of IQ testing and eugenics will recognize the weaponization of low expectations against people deemed inferior. Read More ›
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As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Read More ›

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