Astrophysicist Sarah Salviander on “Cosmic Signposts” Pointing to Intelligent Design

astronomy, astrophysicists, Atheism, Carl Sagan, cosmology, cosmos, expansion rate, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, fundamental constants, gravity, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, Luke Barnes, morality, movies, nuclear force, physics, Sarah Salviander, science fiction, scientific research, stars, The Story of Everything, UC San Diego, universe, __featured2
Dr. Salviander was deeply influenced by science fiction and by the popular astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. Source
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“Cosmic Orphans” No More: Stephen Meyer on the Meaning of the Artemis II Mission

Artemis II, astronauts, Atheism, Bill Nye, Christmas, cosmology, documentary, earth, Faith & Science, faith and science, fine-tuning, Fox News, heavens, humanity, Intelligent Design, Jared Isaacman, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Shermer, Moon, movies, oasis, Privileged Planet, Rare Earth, Richard Dawkins, space, spaceship, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, tickets, universe, Victor Glover
Aboard the lunar spacecraft, astronaut Victor Glover spoke movingly about what some have called our Privileged Planet. Source
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God Hypothesis Comes to Theaters Nationally in April!

accidents, Ben Shapiro, Bible, biologists, biology, Center for Science and Culture, Chemistry, cosmology, creationism, Eric Esau, film, Intelligent Design, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, materialist world view, matter, Meaning, media, mind, movies, natural selection, Nobel laureates, philosophy, Piers Morgan, religion, science, scientific discoveries, scientific revolution, scientists, significance, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theology, ultimate meaning, universe
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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An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

apes, Caesar, Charles Darwin, chimps, civilization, Culture, Culture & Ethics, eagles, Evolution, films, franchise, Human Origins, humans, intelligence, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, knowledge, movies, observatory, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Owen Teague, pandemic, Planet of the Apes, tyranny, universe, virus
“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Source
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For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

Albert Einstein, Anthony Fauci, Artificial Intelligence, atomic bomb, biotechnology, cancel culture, cinematography, climate change, Cold War, Culture & Ethics, dairy cows, Edward Teller, Francis Collins, free speech, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, ideological medicine, Ireland, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Bhattacharya, Joe McCarthy, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, McCarthyism, movies, Nagasaki, National Institutes of Health, nuclear proliferation, Oppenheimer, Physics, Earth & Space, Soviet Union, Sunetra Gupta, The Godfather, United States, wrongthink
Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Source
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When Hollywood gets God and virtue right

Apologetics, Christianity, Culture, Frank Turek, Heroes, Hollywood, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, movies, Theology and Christian Apologetics
By Frank Turek Imagine if there were a fun way to raise your kid’s interest in God while imparting some of the most important virtues every Christian parent wants their children to learn. There is. You can use an unlikely source that will help you get your point across without you sounding all “preachy.” Pollster George Barna found that young people get their theology more from movies than the pulpit.  So why not use the power of Hollywood to give them good theology where you can? Stories inspire and instruct more vividly than commands, which is one reason why Jesus not only gave commands but also told stories. Yes, I know. Unlike Jesus, Hollywood’s stories often glorify much that is immoral. But Hollywood’s most successful movies often tell inspiring stories…
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Frankenstein and His Offspring

abiogenesis, Aristotle, biology, cryogenic freezing, Evolution, Frankenstein, Funny Man: Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Harold Urey, Intelligent Design, Mary Shelley, Mel Brooks, movies, origin of life, panspermia, Patrick McGilligan, satire, Stanley Miller, Svante Arrhenius, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series), Young Frankenstein
"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Source
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