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Can Formless Matter Exist? A Pitfall in Reading Biblical Texts

The solution is to go back to the source and follow the text to see what it actually says. Read More ›
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In Latest Statement from a University, Tree Rights Advocacy Is Based on Irrationality

We protect trees and woodlands with laws and regulations without resorting to irrational ideological justifications and materially impeding human thriving. Read More ›
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Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question

Modern theories postulate entities to account for differences between what we would expect from physics and our observations of distant space. Read More ›
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Single strand ribonucleic acid, RNA research and therapy
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Yet Another Demonstration that Life’s Origin Required an Intelligent Agent

James Tour and Rob Stadler explain why an RNA even remotely similar to QT45 could never have formed on the early Earth. Read More ›
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Body health and balance.
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How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Thrive

Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? Read More ›
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New Paper Argues for the “Unreasonable Likelihood of Being”

How long did life have to get started? Endres notes that life on earth could not have emerged until after two early global sterilizing impacts. Read More ›
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What the Forces of Nature Can Do — And What They Can’t

Our universe not only has limited physical resources, but also informational limits, and the only way to overcome these is by intelligent design. Read More ›
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A Thing of Beauty — The Electromagnetic Force 

As a physicist and someone with a vested interest in being alive, I stand positively in awe of the deeply designed nature of the electromagnetic force. Read More ›
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Nature Right Pushes Neo-Pagan Mysticism at Highest Academic Levels

Most recently, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a symposium on “nature rights” undergirded by “indigenous knowledge.” Read More ›
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Origin-of-Life Researcher at Georgia Tech Picks Up the Design Signal in Biopolymers

You will hear one word, over and over in this remarkable talk, that has stolen the place, or taken the credit, for what is undeniable evidence of design. Read More ›

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