“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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Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

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"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." 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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The Levin Teleology Revolution Is Here

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He has assembled a global community of like-minded investigators who openly advocate teleological arguments harking back to Aristotle and Plato. Source
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Listen: Stuart Burgess Details Examples of Your Body’s Ultimate Engineering

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He’ll relate the time he and famed biologist Richard Dawkins debated, and he’ll remind us why we are all qualified to evaluate scientific theories of origins. Source
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Bad Design, or Ultimate Engineering? Two Views of Biology

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An intelligent designer can employ foresight to envision a solution well beyond anything in existence at the time, and then set about making that a reality. Source
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Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

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Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Source
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 7, “Showed ID Is ‘Religious’ and a Form of ‘Creationism’”

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Is intelligent design actually religious? Is it a form of Christianity? We can immediately see that it is not. Source
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

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Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Source
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