The Forces that Shape our Universe: Gravity

A Fortunate Universe, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Big Bang, black holes, driving, earth, escape velocity, expansion rate, fine-tuning, fundamental forces, Geraint F. Lewis, GPS systems, gravity, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, life, Luke A. Barnes, matter, Moon, nuclear forces, particles, physics, Planetology, planets, universe
One of the most remarkable aspects of our universe is the discovery that just four fundamental forces of nature govern interactions among all particles. Source
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COSM 2025 Will Feature Nobel Laureate Physicist and Skeptic John F. Clauser

Alain Aspect, Albert Einstein, Anton Zeilinger, Boris Podolsky, climate models, COSM 2025, Discovery Institute, Environment & Climate, International Monetary Fund, John F. Clauser, John Stuart Bell, Louisa Gilder, Nathan Rosen, Nobel laureates, particles, photon, physicists, physics, spin, Stuart Freedman, The Age of Entanglement, Washington Post
Discovery Institute’s upcoming COSM 2025 tech conference will feature something a little different. Source
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Decline and Fall: A Vision of a Human-Free Planet

Adrian Woolfson, Albert Einstein, anti-human exceptionalism, artificial general intelligence, bioethics, Children, Christianity, computers, Denisovans, Edward Gibbon, Foundation for Economic Education, Green Revolution, Henry Gee, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, human exceptionalism, human extinction, humans, Lawrence W. Reed, natural selection, Neanderthals, Neuroscience & Mind, Science (journal), The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Source
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Georges Lemaȋtre’s Hidden God

Albert Einstein, Big Bang, Catholic priests, Christianity for Doubters, Creation, Discovery Institute Press, Evolution, Evolution News, Faith & Science, Georges Lemaȋtre, improvements, intelligent beings, Intelligent Design, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, mistakes, natural causes, Nature (journal), physics, Physics, Earth & Space, planning, Supreme Being, Technology, testing, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, theology, universe
Was Lemaȋtre, who certainly believed in God, suggesting that God deliberately hides himself from us, or just acknowledging the paradox? Source
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Melissa Cain Travis Is in New Zealand — See Her in Tauranga This Weekend

Albert Einstein, Center for Science and Culture, cosmology, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Johannes Kepler, Melissa Cain Travis, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, science and faith, Tauranga, theism, Thinking God’s Thoughts, Thinking Matters Conference, universe
Our colleague Dr. Melissa Cain Travis is among the most popular speakers on intelligent design. Source
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The Big Bang Simplified

Albert Einstein, astronomy, Big Bang, big squeeze, calculus, Discovery Institute Press, earth, General Theory of Relativity, Georges Lemaȋtre, gravitational attraction, gravitational theory, In the Beginning, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jean-Pierre Luminet, mathematics, Nicolaus Copernicus, Nobel Prize, philosophy, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, special theory of relativity, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, universe
Since very few people understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, for most of us the Big Bang seems very mysterious and counterintuitive. Source
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The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang

Albert Einstein, Big Bang, blue shifts, cepheid variable stars, Cosmic Background Radiation, cosmological constant, Doppler shift, earth, Geology, Georges Lemaître, globular clusters, Hubble age, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble-Lemaître constant, Intelligent Design, Milky Way, Physics, Earth & Space, spiral nebulae, supernovae, universe, Vesto Slipher
One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing. Source
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The True Fathers of the Big Bang 

Albert Einstein, Alexander Friedmann, Anglo-American Empire, Arthur G. Walker, Big Bang, Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Cold War, cosmology, Edwin Hubble, galaxies, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, Henri Poincaré, Howard P. Robertson, Hubble-Lemaître Law, Intelligent Design, Inventeurs et Scientifiques, Jean-Pierre Luminet, P. J. E. Peebles, Physics, Earth & Space, Ralph Alpher, redshift, Robert Herman, space, theory of relativity, Vesto Slipher
The purpose of this book is not to exhaustively survey the history of cosmology through the centuries. Source
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Science Paper: Use Artificial Intelligence to Challenge Evolution

Albert Einstein, Artificial Intelligence, biologists, chess, Darwinian evolution, David Hullender, Dennis Noble, Elsevier, equations, Evolution, evolutionary models, Gregory Wray, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kevin Leland, logic, Olen Brown, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, scientific inquiry, self-assembly
The authors conclude, "It seems remote that AI would conclude that it is ‘turtles all the way down’.” Source
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Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design

agency, Albert Einstein, Angels, atoms, brain injury, brains, building, C.S. Lewis, cell-assembly location, Energy, Faith & Science, faith and science, home, human beings, immaterial mind, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, laws of nature, life, light, miracles, origin of life, oscillations, singing, spirit, substance, universe
Let’s extend our speculations about the nature of spirit and its interactive ability with this material universe to considerations on the origin of life. Source
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