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Photo: Darwin’s statue, Natural History Museum, by http://www.cgpgrey.com [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinism and the “So What?” Question: John West’s Darwin Day in America

At first glance, it might seem that whether we believe in evolution as a purely material, unguided process should make no difference to values or morality. Read More ›
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Yes, the Human Brain Is the Most Complex Thing in the Universe

Our brains have actually shrunk by 10 percent over the last 40,000 years, coinciding with spectacular intellectual achievements. Read More ›
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Image: Topoisomerase II, by Discovery Institute.

New Animation on Topoisomerase Demonstrates Irrationality of Denying Design Evidence in Biology

Replication or transcription of DNA stresses the macromolecule, resulting in supercoiling. Topoisomerase II relieves the stress. Read More ›
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Dogs Understand Many More Words than We Think

Of course, the dog is responding to words as signals, not as components of sentences. Read More ›
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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

There Is No Such Thing as a Fossil Mind

We are free to accept ad hoc evo psych explanations if we wish. Like astrology and palm reading, they make good conversation pieces. Read More ›
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Jordan Peterson Springs the Trap of Scientism

There’s a gaping God-shaped hole in both Krauss and Peterson’s particular ways of spinning all this. Read More ›
Lawrence Krauss
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Photo: Lawrence Krauss, in Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, and the God Hypothesis

Stephen Meyer opens his new book with a memorable anecdote about debating Krauss live while battling a fierce migraine. Read More ›
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The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology” Be Real Science?

Neurotheology is likely to become just another materialist fad in which the human rational and spiritual soul is reduced to evolved meat. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via En Arche Foundation.

Meyer: When Stephen Hawking Spoke “From Beyond the Grave”

The great physicist failed to see the implications of his own work, which may be the saddest thing of all. Read More ›
ELIZA
Photo: A therapy session with ELIZA, by Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, Calif., CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Artificial Intelligence Understands by Not Understanding

The ELIZA program, acting as a Rogerian therapist, simply mirrors back to the human what the human says. Read More ›

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