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How Do You Cram the Universe Into A Story — and Keep it Focused?

Philosopher Stephen Meyer narrates the film but never gets in the story’s way

At last, the end of materialism escapes the lecture room; it becomes a story about real people in real time in the midst of a civilizational struggle.

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When the Big Bang Cost Physicists Their Lives

A new book from France tells the astonishing story of how governments murdered or drove out scientists to hush up the reality that our universe has a beginning

I was hardly prepared for what Bolloré and Bonnassies reveal about efforts to discredit the idea of a beginning to the universe — by any means necessary.

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In What Sense Is Origin of Life From Space a Scientific Question?

We can never know for sure what happened in the remote past. But future discoveries could, in principle, either strengthen or confirm the life from space claim.

One thing emerges clearly from the life from space approach: Intelligent design is a viable hypothesis for the origin of life.

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