No. 7 Story for 2025: World’s “Best-Known Journalist” Meets Michael Egnor

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Piers Morgan, who is Catholic, says he already believed in life after death from faith and Scripture. What he wanted, he said, was scientific evidence for it. Source
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Fact Check: Did Scientists Really Detect Evidence of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b?

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The molecule is dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), and on Earth its sole known source is life (specifically, marine phytoplankton algae). Source
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Is NASA in a Slump?

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NASA is outsourcing a good deal now to private industry. The trouble is, it’s hard to attract creative engineers to a job supervising the work of others. Source
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Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

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The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Source
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