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In a TED Talk, Here’s the Question You May Not Ask

Riccardo Sabatini is charming. He has the TED style down (who teaches them all to talk that way?), and he deploys some memorable images. Read More ›
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Image: All Souls' Day, by Jakub Schikaneder [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Bruce Buff and Robert Spitzer on All Hallows’ Eve — Materialism as Reality-Denial

“Is the soul real? Or is it just an old construct used to explain what a scientifically illiterate society could not?” Read More ›
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Michael Shermer and the Laws of Complexity

Recently, atheist Michael Shermer debated Catholic philosopher Edward Feser. The subject was Feser’s new book on five arguments for the existence of God. Read More ›
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Image: Cell mitosis in an onion root, by staticd (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire, In His Own Words

If Turner is right, the clockwork, mechanistic, DNA-centric model may have met its match. Read More ›
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An Extraterrestrial Spin on the RNA World

The authors argue that RNA molecules appeared in warm little ponds more than 4.17 billion years ago, transported by “meteorites and interplanetary dust particles." Read More ›
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Dan Brown Thriller Has MIT’s Jeremy England in It; Brian Miller Puts the Science in Perspective

I’m reading Brown’s new Robert Langdon novel, Origin. There’s a decent chance you are too. Read More ›
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When Science Turns Mushy

Certain subjects, all posing ultimate questions, reduce much of scientific talk to pablum. Why do you think that is? Read More ›
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Cheaters Never Prosper? Sure They Do in Origin-of-Life Papers

How can scientists get away with publishing patent nonsense when it comes to the origin of life? Read More ›

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