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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, apologetics, biochemistry, blind physical processes, brain, chemical reactions, Christianity, cognition, Dallas, Daniel Dennett, ID the Future, inference, intentionality, ions, knowledge, meaning, mind, naturalism, neurons, philosophers, rationality, reasoning, Rebekah Valerius, scientific inquiry, Shadowlands Dispatch, truth, universal acid, universe}

Can You Trust Your Thoughts? The Argument from Reason and Its Implications for Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 9, 2026

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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If human thoughts are merely the result of blind physical processes, then there is no logical basis for trusting our own minds. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, adaptations, biology, conscious purposiveness, determinism, Edmund Ware Sinnott, environment, epigenetics, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution: The History of an Idea, freedom, George Levine, Georges Cuvier, history, homeostasis, inheritance, instinctive regulation, J. Scott Turner, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, Jessica Riskin, Lamarckism, Laurent Larson, Marion Lamb, motivation, neo-Darwinian synthesis, personality, Peter J. Bowler, Purpose and Desire, regeneration, Skeptic Magazine, teleology, The Power of Life, Yale University}

Re-evaluating Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

_{Michael Flannery
July 9, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Read More ›

Ancient Greek marble sculpture taped lips aesthetic background

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Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Linguistics
Scientific Freedom
Social Sciences
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), censorship, COVID-19, disinformation, domestic extremism, English, George Orwell, government, Harvard University, information, Jacob Siegel, Joe Biden, language, lockdowns, malinformation, neologisms, Newspeak, Oldspeak, Skepticalifornia, surveillance, The Information State, thoughtcrime, UnHerd}

“Malinformation” — Another Sinister Neologism from the Folks Who Specialize in Them

_{Science & Culture
July 9, 2026

Linguistics, Scientific Freedom, Social Sciences

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The government got lots of support from an academic elite that was anxious to introduce Newspeak terms including “malinformation.” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 8, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, atheists, Christians, church history, compartmentalization, creator, culture, Disclosure Day, government, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, natural causes, nature, order, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, Romans, Rube Goldberg, Steven Spielberg, theology, UFOs, Ultimate Engineering, universe}

It’s Time for a “Disclosure Day” on Design in Nature

_{Brian Miller
July 8, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The culture has been buzzing about Steven Spielberg’s latest, which depicts whistleblowers releasing evidence about UFOs that the government has hidden. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ancestors, brain, Carl Sagan, complexity, crows, evolution, fish, flatscreen television, humans, Jack Reacher, limbic system, lizard brain, lizards, mammals, McGill University, neurobiologists, neuroscience, octopuses, Office for Science and Society, onions, ontogeny, pancakes, parrots, Paul D. MacLean, phylogeny, radio, reptile, reptiles, scientific hypotheses}

McGill University Refutes Pop-Psychology Claim that Humans Have a “Lizard Brain”

_{Casey Luskin
July 7, 2026

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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The false belief traces back to the fact that Carl Sagan was one of its strongest proponents. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 7, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Psychology
Tagged
, contemplation, courage, creativity, Declaration of Independence, dehumanization, designer, etymonline.com, faith, free will, freedom, friction, happiness, hope, human beings, humankind, humanness, humans, individuality, intuition, Karl Jaspers, liberty, life, love, Man in the Modern Age, meaning, Nicolai Berdyaev, organization, philosophers, presence, reasoning, relationship, resistance, spontaneity, surprise, technology, transcendence, virtuousness}

Endowed with Spontaneity: Celebrating Human Freedom

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 7, 2026

Faith & Science, Psychology

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That’s 1930s-German-philosopher-speak for the power and freedom human beings have to know themselves, be known to others, and be active agents in the world. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, Augustan age, Before Philosophy, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creation stories, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Erasmus Darwin, France, Genesis, Great Britain, Henri Frankfort, Higher Criticism, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, lion, Marcion of Sinope, Mary Midgley, materialists, metaphors, mythographers, natural philosophers, natural selection, oak tree, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, parchment, petroglyphs, religion, Sir Charles Lyell, The Origin of Society, The Temple of Nature, transmutation, Victorian England, whale}

Genesis Rescripted: Erasmus and Charles Darwin’s Biblical Indebtedness

_{Neil Thomas
July 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

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One may argue that myth still informs the metaphors underlying the formulation of some present-day scientific theories. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 5, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Bantu, bonobos, Chiara De Gregorio, chimpanzees, Communications Biology, DuckDuckGo, English, French Academy, Genesis, gorillas, great apes, human speech, humans, intelligent design, isochrony, Japanese, laughter, metronome, Nature (journal), orangutans, origin of language, primates, Shigeru Miyagawa, University of Warwick, Why Agree? Why Move?, ZME Science}

Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 5, 2026

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 4, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Founders, George Gaylord Simpson, human rights, Independence Day, intelligent design, John Adams, nature, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Watson and Crick}

Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 2026

Intelligent Design, Political Science

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Today on Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. Read More ›

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
July 3, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, Christianity, creator, Declaration of Independence, divine image, Eastern bloc, endowed by our creator, government, human dignity, human rights, intelligent design, John West, Judaism, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leon Kass, Marxism, political science, science, secularism, Soviet Union, useful fiction, Voltaire}

The Science of Darwin and Marx Provides No Support for “Unalienable Rights”

_{Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
July 3, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Political Science

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Voltaire said that madness is to have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Read More ›