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Richard Sternberg on the Information Beyond the Genome

There’s “something phenomenal” going on inside the cell, says Dr. Sternberg. Probing and elucidating this mystery has been a focus of his research. Read More ›
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Photo: A planarian, by Pavel Kirillov from St.Petersburg, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›
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Faith, Reason, and the Search for Truth: Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer

Dr. Meyer calls math mind-independent. We discover it, we don’t invent it. And it’s conceptual, not a physical material thing. Why is that Important? Read More ›
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Human Evolution by the Numbers: Chatbot Weighs In

The Darwinian story of human evolution from an ape-like creature is probably the most powerful modern secular myth. Read More ›
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Design Writ Large: CSC Fellows on “Science, Mathematics, and Technology”

Bill Dembski led by explaining rigorous means to detect design, including a refined understanding of specified complexity. Read More ›
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The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game

In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers. Read More ›
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Feder, Zimmer on the Boltzmann Brain Problem and the Measure Problem

If a grand multiverse contains everything that’s possible, it ends up explaining nothing. Read More ›
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In the Battle for Biology, Woke Folks Come for Coyne

Woke is, at bottom, a war on reality. It is a war on math. And a war on science. That includes a war on biology, of course. Read More ›
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For Christmas, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe

Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›
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What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Read More ›

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