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Kepler’s Pursuit of a Mathematical Cosmology
Dr. Travis tracks the progression of Kepler’s ideas to show how he became a key figure in the transition from ancient astronomy to a true celestial physics.
Meyer: “God and Science, or No God and No Science”
Back in 2021, Stephen Meyer talked with UC San Diego cosmologist and “devout agnostic” Brian Keating.
Thinking God’s Thoughts: Kepler and Cosmic Comprehensibility
Melissa Cain Travis traces the intellectual pedigree of Johannes Kepler’s ideas all the way back to the ancients.
An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much
“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science,” says Cornelius Hunter, “not because of the science.”
Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection
The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others.