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Gould Said It Was All Contingency and Chance — Well, Maybe Not

Appeals to contingency (i.e., in-principle unrepeatable singularities) disable theory testing. If anything can happen…don’t bother to test, because you can’t. Read More ›
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Are We Just Animals? A Tempting Delusion

Some of my students argue that humans should be wiped off the face of the earth to make room for the other species. Read More ›
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When the Mind is Freed from the Brain

The strong dependency of mind on brain that gets us through everyday life no longer seems to apply when we come to death and dying.  Read More ›
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In Spain, a Transplant Case Gives Heebie-Jeebies

Euthanasia conjoined with organ harvesting just took a particularly disturbing turn, when a woman was euthanized and had part of her face transplanted. Read More ›
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When Can I Trust What Scientists Say?

Claims are based on evidence, and different kinds and quantities of evidence provide different levels of confidence. Read More ›
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AI Dependence Makes Us Dumber, but That’s Not the Worst Thing About It

I realized this when I found myself, not for the first time, asking Grok to remind me again how long to bake salmon at 400 degrees. Read More ›
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When Doctors’ Faith Loses to Bureaucratic Power

In Canada, the family of a euthanized woman, forced to leave a Catholic hospital to be killed, is seeking to compel Catholic hospitals to permit euthanasia. Read More ›
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Goodbye, Burger: Oregon Law Would Ban Animal Agriculture, Plus Fishing and Hunting

In an era where many among us “feel” more than “think,” the potential for such radical proposals becoming law cannot be dismissed out of hand. Read More ›
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“The Monster in the Sky”: Revisiting Atheism’s Creation Myth

The fact that Darwin’s evolutionary ideas could not be shown to be scientifically coherent remained for the uncritical a side issue. Read More ›
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Catholicism and Evolution: A Response to Stephen Barr

These publications are far from telling, in Barr’s words, “the full story of how the Church did react to the theory of evolution.” Read More ›

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