“Cosmic Orphans” No More: Stephen Meyer on the Meaning of the Artemis II Mission

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Aboard the lunar spacecraft, astronaut Victor Glover spoke movingly about what some have called our Privileged Planet. Source
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Between Life and the Cosmos, Which Provides Better Evidence for Design?

astrophysicists, Atheism, atheists, beauty, biology, biology class, Chemistry, Christopher Hitchens, cosmic design, cosmology, DNA, documentary, Doug Wilson, fine-tuning, fingerprints, galaxy, immaterial genome, information, Intelligent Design, intimacy, life, living cell, machinery, materialist paradigm, mind of God, nature, physical constants, physics, Plato's Revenge, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Sarah Salviander, scientific experts, stars, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, Timothy McGrew, universe
Caught on video in the back of a car, in which he was riding with pastor Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens said this about himself and his fellow atheists. Source
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Post-Darwin, Too, Maxwell Drew a Remarkable Design Inference

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So far we detect significant prescience about intelligent design in Maxwell’s thought. He all but uses the phrase himself. Source
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Tickets Available Now: New Film Tells of Cosmic Beginning and the God Hypothesis

Albert Einstein, Allan Sandage, arts, bad dream, Big Bang, Brian Josephson, chance, Charles Murray, Christianity, cosmology, designer, Eric Esau, faith, Faith & Science, Georges Lemaître, God and the Astronomers, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Larry Sanger, Lawrence Krauss, material reality, New York Times, physical laws, priests, reason, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Robert Jastrow, scientific revolution, scientists, Stephen Meyer, stories, supernatural, The Story of Everything, theologians, theoretical physicists, unintelligent forces, universe, Wikipedia
In a beautiful, exciting, deeply informed film, scientists and scholars explain why the story of meaning and purpose in a created universe has been vindicated. Source
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God Hypothesis Comes to Theaters Nationally in April!

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The film features a diverse range of scientists, some familiar to those who follow the work of the Center for Science and Culture, but others very much not. Source
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Framing a Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical “Carrollers”

Alex O’Connor, Bayesian reasoning, cosmology, fine-tuning, Hans Halvorson, Humean probabilities, Intelligent Design, likelihood ratio, Luke Barnes, mathematicians, metaphysics, monotheistic tradition, multiverse, Ned Hall, Nevin Climenhaga, personal beliefs, philosophers, philosophy, physics, plausibility, podcasters, Presbyterians, priors, probability, psychological states, Robin Collins, Sean Carroll, spacetime, subjective inclinations, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, theoretical physicists, Thomas Bayes
Using Sean Carroll’s criticisms of the fine-tuning argument as a general guide, I propose to address objections to that argument, Source
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The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers

"God of the gaps", Alex O’Connor, atheists, background theory, Bayesian reasoning, constants, cosmologists, cosmology, E. F. Hutton, eric hedin, fine-tuning, fingerprints, Friedrich Schleiermacher, galaxies, gravity, Hans Halvorson, human centrality, Leonard Susskind, Luke Barnes, multiverse, Philosophy of Science, physicist, physics, quantum mechanics, scientific reasoning, Sean Carroll, theism, theists, Victor Stenger, __featured2
Carroll is a prolific physicist and cosmologist who has been a prominent popularizer of science. Source
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Charles Murray, Among Others, Shows the Impact of Our Work

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As Stephen Meyer, John West, Steve Buri, and others got up and spoke, there was an odd shaking in the floor and windows. Source
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Examining Max Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

Aaron Zimmer, asymmetry, Brian Miller, cosmology, Ellie Feder, ID The Future, intelligent cause, laws of nature, math, Mathematical Universe Hypothesis, mathematics, Max Tegmark, multiverse, physics, Physics to God, Podcasts, Science Uprising, selection, Stephen Meyer, universe
According to this theory, every possible set of laws governs a universe, and our existence is simply explained by observer bias. Source
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Destroyer or Nurturer? Darwin’s Divinized Conception of Nature

Alan of, Alfred Russel Wallace, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Bernard Silvestris, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Brontë, cosmology, Darwinism, Edward Pusey, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, historical sciences, Jane Eyre, Jean de Meun, Lamarckism, maternal figure, Mother Nature, Natura, Natura creatrix, natural preservation, natural selection, natural theology, Ovid, Physis, Queens of the Wild, Robert J. Richards, Romance of the Rose, Ronald Hutton, teleology, world spirit
The powers of natural selection transcend human intelligence to such a degree that Darwin came close to imputing to it the capacity for intelligent design. Source
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