Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question

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Modern theories postulate entities to account for differences between what we would expect from physics and our observations of distant space. Source
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Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible

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TSA workers at airports could never boast of this much quality control in their authentication protocols. Source
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Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Source
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Design: A Scientific Proxy for Intelligence

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The Dead Sea Scrolls are an example of a design artifact for which intelligence is inferred as the source. Source
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Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World

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First, Dr. Hedin discusses the problem of natural evils like earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, and other natural disasters. Source
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The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law 

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Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden. Source
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