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ID Foundations, 20: Caught between the Moon and New York City . . . the...

Yesterday, News put up a post on the mysterious origins of the moon, invoking a classic song on being caught between the Moon and New York City. (Niwrad added a post here on the multiverse that is also...

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Cocktail! The Fingers of God are pointing at you

In further commemoration of Halton Christian “Chip” Arp, Chip pointed out many star clusters are aligned in such a way that they point toward us. So severe has been the unease over this that some have...

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Is Earth the center of the universe or are quasar redshift groupings the...

It is amusing to note that the way many scientists promote a novel theory is to argue that their theory is true because the alternative is to accept the hypothesis that the Earth is in a very...

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Creationist RA Herrmann’s ID theory — the last magic on steroids!

First, an excerpt from Dr. Herrmann’s personal history: I was associated with the occult from birth, but in 1946 when I was 12 years old, I suddenly became extremely interested in occult manifestations...

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Boldly going where no man has gone before — will we find ET’s or are we alone?

[ HT: KRock] The aim of this essay is to set the record straight on behalf of Norm Geisler in the landmark creation-evolution case Mclean vs. Arkansas as well exploring a few connections of...

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Nature makes an ID-friendly report on the Solar System (officially it’s not...

At the scandalous premiere of Privileged Planet at the Smithsonian Institution several years ago, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez said something to the effect “not only are we in the right place in the...

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Exoplanets: Word “Earth-like” widely abused by scientists and journalists...

From Physics World, a review of Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional – and What That Means for Life in the Universe: It is a common view among astrobiologists that life is not a one-off, and that...

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Implications of the Privileged Planet Hypothesis

Over on the other thread we’ve had a brief discussion of the recent initiative to find extraterrestrial intelligence. In response to a couple of the comments I thought it might be instructive to look...

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Our Moon formed in collision with embryo planet?

artist’s conception, Theia/NASA, JPL-CalTech A new moon formation theory, from ScienceDaily: The moon was formed from a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a ‘planetary embryo’...

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Forbes: Our solar system is like waterfront property

It’s scarce, and they’re not making any more of it. From Bruce Dorminey at Forbes: As Robert Wittenmyer, an astronomer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and the paper’s lead author told...

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Full Vid: DI/Denton, privileged species

Here: [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Let us watch and ponder, then discuss. END Posts       Copyright © 2016 Uncommon Descent. This...

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“Alien Megastructure Is Not The Cause Of The Dimming Of Tabby’s Star ”...

According to SciTech Daily in a January 3, 2018 article, Tabby’s star, aka KIC 8462852, has had a mysterious brightening and dimming cycle.  (Such a cycle, of course raises the interesting thought of...

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It is time for ID to provide real leadership in rethinking origins across the...

The opportunity is open and it is time to seize the day. So, I think a comment in a discussion with GP and Dionisio should be headlined: >>My observation is those who are closed minded,...

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One theory about why we don’t see extraterrestrials provides support for...

The Ocean Planets Hypothesis is that intelligent beings may flourish in the interior oceans of the moons of gas giant planets — or within exoplanets — but they are trapped there: Williams concludes,...

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At SciTech Daily: NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen details of the galaxy group called “Stephan’s Quintet” in an enormous new image. The close proximity of this group gives scientists a...

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At Space.com: NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft aces close moon flyby in...

Mike Wall writes: Artemis 1’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft has been cruising toward the moon since Wednesday morning (Nov. 16), when it launched atop NASA’s gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) rocket....

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