S. A. Cooper is an independent computational researcher and author based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

In the course of his research, Cooper noticed something that is rarely discussed openly in cosmological literature. What most people believe to be established science, including the expanding universe, the Big Bang, and the cosmic inflation that supposedly preceded it, are creation stories framed in mathematics. They are narratives about cosmic origin and development that cannot be empirically tested or falsified, unable to be traced to any physical mechanism known to science. Yet they are treated as though they must have happened this way.

Again and again, across different constructs and different moments in the development of modern cosmology, the same pattern appears. When foundational assumptions prove insufficient, additional assumptions are introduced to preserve the original picture. Each new element is presented as a scientific advance, yet each exists to solve a problem created by the one before it. The result is an expanding theoretical narrative whose components depend upon one another for support. This is a feature of the entire enterprise of modern cosmology.

This led Cooper to independent research where he examines the assumptions on which modern cosmology has been built. In turn it led to the notion that the structure in the Universe does not operate like anything that could arise from nothing or even random fluctuations, but rather everything in the Universe, though far surpassing our ingenuity, has technological characteristics.

Cooper's debut nonfiction title, Natural Technology: The Theory of Everything, introduces a framework that views the natural world as a structured, functional system, one that reflects engineering principles. The book explores irreducible complexity, functional interdependence, and the embedded order in reality. It builds on and extends the work of key thinkers in the Intelligent Design movement, including Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, and James Tour, offering a new perspective.

His follow-up work, The War of Cosmogonies: Genesis, Science, and the Battle for Reality, steps back to examine the cultural and metaphysical conflict between scriptural and scientific origin stories. Rather than treating the debate as a matter of evidence, Cooper reveals it as a war of worldviews: where language, authority, and epistemology collide. The book argues that modern scientific storytelling is not neutral, but embedded with assumptions that shape institutions, public education, and even moral frameworks.

Cooper is also the author of the From Scratch series, a collection of technical papers that examines the assumptions on which modern cosmology has been built. Mainstream journals, however, evaluate foundational cosmology through referees who are themselves working inside the frameworks under examination. A paper questioning whether these constructs were ever empirically warranted cannot receive a neutral hearing from reviewers for whom those constructs are the unexamined background of all their work. This is not a criticism of individuals but a recognition that institutional consensus and empirical justification are not the same thing. Examining that distinction is the purpose of the From Scratch series.

Cooper welcomes questions, challenges, and correspondence from both technical and general readers at s.a.cooper.research@gmail.com.