Between Life and the Cosmos, Which Provides Better Evidence for Design?

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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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Brian Miller on Emotional Intelligence in Science, Scientific Tensions, and More

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The context is when students with a religious background enter the sciences at the undergraduate or graduate level. Source
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Can Formless Matter Exist? A Pitfall in Reading Biblical Texts

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The solution is to go back to the source and follow the text to see what it actually says. Source
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Evolution: What Is in a Word? (Hint: Not Much)

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Since the entire non-living universe contains far less information content than a single living cell, life presents an enigma to materialism. Source
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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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Stay Informed about the Evidence for Design, with Michael Kent

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Technological advances have led to the discovery of planets outside our solar system, with news heralding the discovery of many “earth-like” planets. Source
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Framing a Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical “Carrollers”

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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

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Carroll is a prolific physicist and cosmologist who has been a prominent popularizer of science. Source
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How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Thrive

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Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? Source
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