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Facing Reality About Life on Other Planets

August 11, 2017

by Dr Henry Richter For a number of years I have been amused to watch many in the scientific community conduct a frantic campaign to identify life elsewhere in the universe. There has been a plethora of articles and significant dollars dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, particularly intelligent life. In recent times several […]

Solar System

The Habitability Habit: Exaggerating Earth-Likeness

July 26, 2017

Secularists put too much hope on some aspects of Earth-like exoplanets, but sometimes reality keeps their imaginations in check.

SETI

Hope, Not Evidence, Drives Astrobiology

August 25, 2016

Earth-size exoplanets are not evidence for alien life. They are evidence for orbiting bodies.

Solar System

Faint Young Sun Paradox Solved?

July 1, 2016

A major mystery for materialistic planetary science is solved—if you can swallow the miracles required.

Intelligent Design

Only Earth Is a Life Haven

June 23, 2016

Here are more discoveries that make it reasonable to think complex life is rare in the universe, and might be unique to Earth.

Solar System

More Challenges to Astrobiology

May 26, 2016

There aren't likely as many places to live outside of Earth as earlier hoped.

Astronomy

Earth Twin Still Missing in Exoplanet Trove

May 12, 2016

The Kepler spacecraft has found 2,325 exoplanets so far, but there's still no place like Earth.

Astronomy

There's No Place Like Earth

November 20, 2015

A survey of known exoplanets finds no real estate as valuable as Earth.

Solar System

New Thoughts on Habitable Planets

October 9, 2015

Astrobiologists are trying to standardize the requirements for habitable planets. Do they get them all?

Intelligent Design

Do You Know How Lucky You Are to Live on Earth?

September 22, 2015

The factors that make life possible came together so beautifully, even materialists have trouble knowing why we're here.

Solar System

Planets Defy Bottom-Up Assembly

August 15, 2015

As much as they want to imagine planets forming from dust, secular astronomers run into insurmountable difficulties.

Media

You Wouldn't Want to Live on "Earth's Cousin"

July 24, 2015

Despite the hype about another Earth-like exoplanet, Kepler 452b would not be as habitable as Venus.

SETI

Desperately Seeking Life Beyond Earth

July 7, 2015

Earth life cannot be unique. How about you, Mars? Europa, anything? Enceladus? Comet 67P? Please break the silence!

SETI

SETI Believers Are Lost in Space

July 2, 2015

How long can you say "watch this space" till onlookers lose interest?

Physics

Star Trek for Real: Impenetrable Force Field Protects Earth

November 29, 2014

Radiation belts discovered at the dawn of the space age have a new trick in their pocket: shielding the Earth.

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