Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
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2018

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Photo credit: Lars Ploughman, via Pixabay.

Why Argue with Intelligent Design? Offer Drive-By Psychotherapy Instead!

Avoiding serious discussion of design in nature (and of many other questions) fills a need. Read More ›
bee abstract thought
Photo: Has this bee demonstrated a capacity for abstract thought? By RMIT University.

Can Bees Understand the Concept of “Zero”?

The scientists credited the bees with more intelligence than some humans. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Maximilian Schönherr [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards: Press Pause on the Robot Apocalypse

Henry Kissinger has sounded an alarm over AI, and raises questions about machine ethics and the possibility that humans may learn we’re not so special after all. Read More ›
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Eugenic Sterilization Is STILL Going On

Robert Wilson’s work brought him into contact with survivors of Canada’s eugenics regime, eventually drawing him into research and advocacy. Read More ›
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New Paper in Evolution Journal: Humans and Animals Are (Mostly) the Same Age?

I am intrigued, but to be honest, I don’t quite know what to make of it just yet, and don’t want to jump to any conclusions. Read More ›
Heretic
Matti Leisola
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Heretic Is for the ID Critic, or the Curious Reader, in Your Life

Yesterday on Twitter we had the opportunity to recommend it to an ID critic who wrote a book chapter on intelligent design without first doing his homework. Read More ›
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Photo: “Full Moon Over Newfoundland,” by NASA.

In Defense of Theistic Evolution, Denis Lamoureux Rewrites History

Scientism’s grand progress narrative holds that as we learn more and more about the world, purely natural or material explanations inevitably will arise and grow stronger. Read More ›
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J. Scott Turner
Image: Claude Bernard and his students, via Wikicommons.

Listen: Turner, Meyer, and Bernard’s Dangerous Idea

“There is intelligence that underlies the evolutionary process. You cannot explain it without that.” Read More ›
Kirsty Duncan

Which Scientists Get to Have Free Speech?

Does the “scientific consensus” mean that only scientists who follow the majority are entitled to have their say? Read More ›

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