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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. Read More ›
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Reviewer Asks: Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?

Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book, God, the Science, the Evidence, raises a stark question
Why are we asked to discredit the evidence of fine-tuning of the universe? Why is such an antirealist message coming from science? Read More ›
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French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen

But, as materialism wanes and religion slowly revives, will many scientists find panpsychism more attractive?
Something has changed if the magic word “Evolution!” cannot be used to paper over vast improbabilities and silence dissenters in the way that it has for over a century. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor: Atheism as a “Foreign Influence” on Science

On the Ex-Skeptic show, the neurosurgeon — an ex-skeptic himself — discusses his journey with Jana Harmon, who studies atheists who came to believe in God
Suggesting a trend, a new book which aims to dethrone materialism in science, has been selling well in Europe and coming out shortly in English. Read More ›