Category: Culture

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
June 15, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __featured2, airport paperbacks, American Jews, Arrival (movie), BBC, boomers, Chariots of the Gods, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, compassion, David Grusch, Disclosure Day, Disneyfication, England, extraterrestrials, fiction, Fox News, Gethsemane, goals, idealism, immigrants, inner child, language, Mother Superior, movies, NBC, Passion, Pentagon, personality, phones, pop spirituality, religion, Ross Douthat, Roy Neary, Snow White, Steve Deace, symbolism, TMZ, UFOlogy, World War III}

E.T., Phoned In: The Disneyfied Faith of Steven Spielberg

_{Bethel McGrew
June 15, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science

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Steve Deace has called the film a direct assault on Christianity. This wasn’t exactly my impression. I didn’t feel assaulted so much as vaguely condescended to. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 15, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __featured3, aliens, Bethel McGrew, Bible, blockbuster, C. S. Lewis, Casey Luskin, charm, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, demons, director, Disclosure Day, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, empathy, entertainment, extraterrestrials, faith, faith and science, government, heresy, humanoids, humans, humor, intelligent design, Jews, life forms, marketing, movies, Rod Dreher, Science and Culture Today, social media, Space Trilogy, spirituality, Steven Spielberg, storytelling, sweaters, theaters, theology, ticket sales, Variety}

Spielberg’s Latest Is E.T. Without the Charm

_{David Klinghoffer
June 15, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science

4}

Of the two characters in the film whom Steven Spielberg presents to us as the most compassionate and wise, one is a Catholic nun. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 14, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, authority, business, chronic pain, despair, disability, doctors, Gallup, love, media, medicine, moral acceptability, opinions, physician-assisted suicide, poll, popular culture, prevention, rescue, respondents, self-termination, spouse, suicide, terminal sickness}

On Morality of Suicide, a Wide Disparity of Opinion; Why?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 14, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Close to a majority, 49 percent, answered that committing suicide with a doctor’s help is morally acceptable, while 45 percent responded that it is not. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 13, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alex Rosenberg, brain, Carlo Rovelli, Cheshire Cat, David A. Oakley, Duke University, eliminative materialism, folk psychology, George Orwell, Harry G. Frankfurt, illusion, intelligentsia, Joe Gough, Michael Egnor, mind, naturalism, neuroscience, Patricia Churchland, Peter L. Halligan, philosophers, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Metzinger, University of Mainz}

“Mind as an Illusion” Makes No Sense

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 13, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

5}

Philosophers of mind using their minds to prove that there is no mind do not help the credibility of their discipline. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Blaise Pascal, boats, Charles Darwin, Cicero, conversations, courtrooms, cruise ship, DNA, entrepreneurs, executives, Florence, Galileo Galilei, HR departments, implossible, intelligent design, intention, jesus, jobs, Kevin Kelly, leaders, Leonardo da Vinci, magazines, Michael Behe, Moses, Paul Nelson, Pythagoras, Renaissance, salary, scholars, Stephen Meyer, talent, television, universities, Wa’a Kaulua, William Dembski}

Aboard the Lifeboat — or Cruise Ship — of Intelligent Design

_{George Montañez
June 12, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

7}

It takes persistence to remain on board. Not everyone is cut out for the life of a maligned academic. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Adam, Anil Seth, animals, Baruch Spinoza, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, David Chalmers, earth, eliminative materialism, evolution, Genesis, hard problem of consciousness, heavens, humans, inanimate matter, Karl Popper, matters, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, neuroscientists, New York University, Noema, philosophers, soul, theoretical physics, Thomas Kuhn, Tim Bayne}

Prominent Physicist Wishes Away the Hard Problem of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 12, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

5}

Recently Carlo Rovelli fell into an all-too-common trap for creative thinkers. He offered an opinion on a subject outside his discipline. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anthropology, apes, Barbie doll, Bayesian reasoning, Christianity, culture, dancing, Dungeons and Dragons, Elsevier, evolutionary requirements, feasting, human behavior, human origins, humanity, humans, indigenous peoples, Islam, John Speth, Judaism, movies, non-rational behaviors, praying, Quaternary Environments and Humans, singing, spirituality, survival, University of Michigan, war, witches, wizards}

Paper: Human Behavior Shows We’re “Far More Complex than Just a ‘Souped-Up’ Ape”

_{Casey Luskin
June 12, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

6}

How do we explain all the “mind-boggling sweep” of time-consuming behavior that isn’t directly necessary for survival? Read More ›

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Date
June 10, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, academics, AI slop, artificial inteligence, arXiv, bioRxiv, citations, clinical-trial studies, fabrication, Frankencitations, hallucinations, humans, Jay Van Bavel, Nature (journal), PubMed Central, references, researchers, scholars, SSRN, systematic reviews}

In Science Research, a Plague of Phony Citations Generated by AI

_{Science & Culture
June 10, 2026

Ethics, Scientific Reasoning

2}

Ironically, the public has been taught to worry that AI is taking over and will do everything better than humans. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 10, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, aliens, Casey Luskin, cosmos, creator, extraterrestrials, faith, humanoids, imagination, marketing, Michael Denton, panspermia, physiology, planets, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, science fiction, Sean McDowell, seeding, space and time, Spencer Klavan, Steven Spielberg, technology, Wall Street Journal}

For Extraterrestrial Life, All Credit to a Creator

_{David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Planetology

3}

As Casey Luskin reminds us, technology-using aliens would — by the intent of the cosmic design — need to live on a planet like ours with a physiology like ours. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alien abduction, aliens, biology, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Christians, church, common designer, Daily Mail, Daily Wire, director, Disclosure Day, Donald Trump, ethnicity, evolution, extraterrestrials, Federal Government, grays, humanoids, humans, hype, intelligent aliens, intelligent design, Jews, movies, predictions, religion, Star Trek, Steven Spielberg, transcendent being, UFOs, White House}

If You Care About Faith, Bring on the Aliens, Mr. Spielberg!

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

Luskin: "If alien life does exist, and if it looks or works even remotely like human biology, then it did not arise by blind evolution." Read More ›