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Weaponizing Science: Accused Trump Gunman Cited “Natural Selection”

The ethos that would most logically come from recognizing the design in life, every life, is the very opposite of what you'd expect from Darwinism. Read More ›
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Richards: The Most Earth-Like Planet Is Still … Mars

With the discovery of large numbers of exoplanets in the last twenty years, does Earth look as privileged as it once did? Read More ›
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A Year Ago Today, Steve Meyer Met Joe Rogan

“Things seem much different than they did a year ago,” said our colleague Emily Sandico in an office conversation the other day. Read More ›
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“Irreducible Complexity” in the News

In a loose sense, America may be “irreducibly complex” but NPR sure is not. And “diverse”? America is, but NPR certainly isn’t.  Read More ›
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Promoting a Suicide: Shame on Politico

Throughout the story, big-time political consultant Hal Malchow’s planned suicide is depicted as empowering. Read More ›
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Deep Fakes and Propaganda for Artificial General Intelligence

The video shows a supposed table tennis match between a robot and a top human player. Yet the video is not of an actual match. Read More ›
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Science or Science Fiction? Scientists Debate

Should some Netflix documentaries be labeled science fiction? Two are currently targeted by researchers in paleontology and archeology respectively. Read More ›
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Mainstream Media Discover “Nature Rights”

Concomitantly, China would never be so stupid as to grant rights to nature. They don’t even grant them to humans. Read More ›
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Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?

People suspect that we are being conned about a lot of things. How would an accepted, admitted policy of conning us not make it worse? Read More ›
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Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Throwback Thursday: Meyer Asks, “What Is This Theory of Intelligent Design?”

"As the story goes, intelligent design is just creationism repackaged by religious fundamentalists in order to circumvent a 1987 Supreme Court prohibition." Read More ›

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