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Richards: Using Artificial Intelligence to Sell the Welfare State

There’s an undoubted sense of crisis in the air. Read More ›
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Richards, Medved: Sex Robots and the Future “Smart Machine” Dystopia

There are some definite “Stop the world, I want to get off” moments in the new Great Minds with Michael Medved podcast from Discovery Institute. Read More ›
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Bradley Center to Sort Reality from Rubbish on AI; Join Us July 11 in Seattle for the Big Launch!

I sometimes wonder if hype about artificial intelligence, the wonderful or terrible things it will do for or to us, functions as a deliberate distraction. Read More ›
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Were Nazis More Tolerant of Down Syndrome than Some European Countries Today?

Richard Dawkins lashed out at Pope Francis for the latter’s comparing modern eugenic efforts to Nazi precedents that sought to “create a pure race.” Read More ›
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What to Fear? Jay Richards’s The Human Advantage Is Out!

The scary thing about AI and related advances in technology is not what it will to do us — like put us all out of work — but what we’ll do with it to ourselves and each other.  Read More ›
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This Is Science — Dog Study Confirms What Everyone Already Knew

In contrast with apes, it’s a tougher sell to say that dogs share an ability to communicate with us because of being close evolutionary cousins. Read More ›

Is There Information in Saturn’s Rings?

Or in a rock? Or a snowflake? This is a common contention from ID critics. Read More ›
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An Intimate Reminder About What “Was Once Thought to Be Unnecessary ‘Junk’ DNA”

“Male mice grow ovaries instead of testes if they are missing a small region of DNA that doesn’t contain any genes,” reports the Francis Crick Institute. Read More ›
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Congratulations to Bruce Chapman, “Godfather” of Intelligent Design

In his new book he discusses some of the overlooked virtues of politicians, and asks, in one chapter, “What Makes a Politician Good?” Read More ›
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Great Minds: Medved and Gelernter on Human Exceptionalism, American Exceptionalism

The human mind is exceptional in the universe as the United States is exceptional on the face of the Earth. Read More ›

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