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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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Intelligent Design May Speak to Young People’s Spiritual Interests

The rapidly changing religious demographics of American society constitutes an undoubtedly complex sociological issue that will resist easy explanation. Read More ›
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Admit an “Error” by Darwin and Huxley? Here’s How It Could Be Permitted

As we all know, evolutionary theory, like the famed golf game of Kim Jon-il, contains no errors or weaknesses of any kind. Read More ›
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Biology Journal: Evolutionary Psychology Is “Impossible”

Did evolutionary scientists not understand these things already? Read More ›
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Balancing Lives, Economics, and Public Policy in This Plague

Our political policy makers (the President, Congress and the Senate, governors, etc.) should make their calculus transparent. Read More ›
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Science Education and the Growth Mindset

Growth mindset is an idea popularized by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. Read More ›
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Listen: John West on Scientific Racism and the Cachet of Darwinism in the Humanities

On race, scientists followed Darwin’s thinking until religious and civil rights leaders, not other scientists, ultimately shamed them out of it. Read More ›
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What’s at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism?

We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics. Read More ›
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Milton and the Psychology of Materialism

It is basically the denial of human exceptionalism. That is, it is hatred of man, in practically every way imaginable. Read More ›
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How Did Religion “Evolve”?

It’s telling that one kind of evolution always seems to be missing from these “theories” about the evolutionary origins of religion. Read More ›

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