Author: David Klinghoffer
Hey, Please Ask Dawkins About His “Junk DNA” Goof
Our friend Brian Keating, a cosmologist at UC San Diego, does wonderful interviews. A particularly fun recent one was with Richard Dawkins.
Jay Richards: Toppling a Myth of Human Insignificance
It was 19th-century materialism that needed the so-called Copernican demotion, for ideological reasons, and the historians of the time obediently invented it.
Jay Richards: The 1890s Were a Much Better Time to Be an Atheist
Yes, ideas of a multiverse are taken “extremely seriously.” And those are obviously intended to counter the theistic implications of the familiar cosmology.
Richards: The Most Earth-Like Planet Is Still … Mars
With the discovery of large numbers of exoplanets in the last twenty years, does Earth look as privileged as it once did?
William Dembski: What’s the Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?
What exactly is the very best evidence for a designing agent behind nature? There are a number of contenders and, interestingly, not all ID proponents agree.