15Oct 2025 by Post

The Search for Extraterrestrials: Keeping Hope Alive

alien civilizations, astrobiologists, Avi Loeb, BBC, Carl Sagan, David Kipping, extraterrestrials, Gizmodo, Hayabusa2, Jacob Haqq Misra, John Gertz, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Matt Williams, NASA, OSIRIS-REx, Planetology, Principle of Mediocrity, Ravi Kopparapu, Rolf Dobelli, Science Alert, Science Focus, scientific reasoning, SETI, solar system, Technology, technosignatures, The Privileged Planet
The question looms: How much can science avoid facts while retaining the character of science? Source
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19Apr 2025 by Post

Fact Check: Did Scientists Really Detect Evidence of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b?

Astronomer Royal, astronomers, atmosphere, BBC News, Big Think, biosignature, Catherine Heymans, CBC, Christopher Glein, CNN, dimethyl disulfide, dimethyl sulfide, earth, exoplanet, Hyacean ocean planet, Intelligent Design, K2-18b, magma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, molten rock, Neptune, New York Times, Nora Hänni, Oliver Shorttle, phytoplankton algae, Planetology, rocky planet, Sara Seager, Science (journal), Science Reporting, Sky at Night Magazine, solar system, Southwest Research Institute, University of Bern
The molecule is dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), and on Earth its sole known source is life (specifically, marine phytoplankton algae). Source
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15May 2024 by Post

Consciousness BEFORE Life? These Scientists Say Yes

Alexander Oparin, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, asteroids, Bennu, brains, consciousness, Dante Lauretta, Darwinian materialists, Evolution, genes, Institute for Arts and Ideas, mind, Murchison meteorite, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophers, quantum collapse, quantum superpositions, Roger Penrose, scientists, solar system, Stuart Hameroff, wave function
One key way life differs from non-life is that life forms have goals. For example, the amoeba seeks to protect itself. Source
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12May 2024 by Post

In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet 

Africa, ancestors, Ann Gauger, atmosphere, aurora, aurora australis, aurora borealis, beauty, Brian Miller, carbon, earth, electrons, Emily Sandico, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, Faith & Science, Geology, geomagnetic storm, helium, hydrogen, Intelligent Design, iPhone, iron, Joe Biden, Judeo-Christian tradition, Junk DNA, magnesium, magnetic field, magnetic field lines, magnetic particles, magnetosphere, materialists, neon, nitrogen, northern lights, oxygen, paleomagnetism, PhD, radiation, Seattle, solar system, South Africa, vortex, Wikipedia
You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Source
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17May 2023 by Post

The Dawkins Test Returns an Answer: Intelligent Design

astronomers, astronomy, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dawkins Test, epicycles, Evolution, Evolution News, family tree, genes, geocentric model, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, phylogenomics, Physics, Earth & Space, Richard Dawkins, solar system, The Greatest Show on Earth, Tree of Life, universal common ancestry
Dr. Luskin details the various ways that the rapidly developing field of phylogenomics is uncovering data that powerfully fits the ID model of life’s history. Source
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06Apr 2023 by Post

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

Anthropic Principle, astrobiology, biology, black holes, climatology, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmological constant, cosmological initial conditions, density of gas, density of stars, exobiology, fine-tuning, Frederik van Niekerk, fundamental forces, galactic disk, gas metallicity, geophysics, global tuning, habitability, hydrogen, Intelligent Design, life, local tuning, Nico Vorster, physical constants, physicists, Physics, Earth & Space, planetary dynamics, Science and Faith in Dialogue, solar system, stellar evolution, supernova rate, universe, Weak Anthropic Principle
In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Source
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30Jan 2023 by Post

New Study: The Milky Way Is Exceptional

astronomy, Copernican principle, cosmological walls, cosmology, earth, filaments, galaxies, habitability, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Michael Keas, Miguel Aragón, Milky Way, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Nicolaus Copernicus, Physics, Earth & Space, Satellites Around Galactic Analogs, sheets, solar system, star formation, The Privileged Planet, Unbelievable?, universe, voids, walls
“You might have to travel a half a billion light years from the Milky Way, past many, many galaxies, to find another cosmological wall with a galaxy like ours.” Source
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19Oct 2022 by Post

Intelligent Design and Cosmic Fine-Tuning

A Fortunate Universe, Cosmic Habitable Age, dark energy, earth, expansion rate of universe, fine-timing, fine-tuning, Freeman Dyson, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Michael Denton, Moon, Physics, Earth & Space, Privileged Species, Rare Earth, solar system, sun, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, The Privileged Planet, universe
In combination, the factors mentioned here and in my last two posts constrain the “cosmic habitable age” to narrower dimensions. Source
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18Oct 2022 by Post

Intelligent Design and Planetary Timing 

astrophysicists, coincidences, complex life, E-ring, earth, Enceladus, fine-tuning, G rings, geysers, habitable zone, Intelligent Design, Jupiter, magnetic field, magnetic fields, Mars, Michael Denton, NASA, Neptune, perturbation, Physics, Earth & Space, plate tectonics, ring particles, Second Law of Thermodynamics, solar system, The Miracle of Man, thermodynamics, timing, Titan, Uranus
Enceladus is an especially fascinating case. Nearly 100 geysers of water ice are currently jetting out of its south pole at supersonic speed. Source
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13Jan 2022 by Post

Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

Atlantic Ocean, biogeography, camera eye, Casey Luskin, common descent, common design, convergence, Emily Reeves, Evolution, evolutionists, Harvest House, humans, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, monkeys, octopus, optical engineering, Podcast, rafting monkeys, Renaissance, solar system, South America, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, universal common descent
Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Source
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