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Photo: Peas, by Bill Ebbesen, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›
wet market
Photo: A wet market in Myanmar, by Dan Bennett, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Top Medical Journal Demands “Ecological Equity”

This isn’t some outlier bioethicist or animal-rights activist being given a few pages of ink. Read More ›
spiral galaxy NGC 6872
Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 6872, by NASA/ESO/JPL-Caltech/DSS.

Watch: Here Are Several Minutes of Design-Detection Brainstorming with Lex Fridman

I’ve never heard such a concise account of the principal methodological difficulties of inferring an unconstrained intelligence as a TESTABLE cause. Read More ›
Drosophila melanogaster
Photo: Drosophila melanogaster, by Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Puzzle of Hox Gene Homology — With Parsimony Taking the Hit 

I am old enough to remember when, during the cladistics revolution, parsimony was the Final Referee with the Loudest Whistle. Read More ›
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Photo: Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, via Wikimedia Commons.

SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds

SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial. Read More ›
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James Tour: The Goalposts Are Racing Away from the Origin-of-Life Community

Dr. Tour explains to host Eric Metaxas why the origin-of-life community is further than ever from solving the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›
Scandentia
Photo: Eudaemonema webbi, after Scott 2010 fig. 3, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology. Read More ›
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Dallas Conference: What Does “The Science” Really Say about Faith?

This year's conference, February 17 and 18, will tackle subjects we haven't explored before, including archaeology, transgenderism, and tech addiction. Read More ›
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The Fantasy of Living Forever in a Computer

If eternal life is attainable, it will be found by working on one’s soul in faith, not by developing ever-more-advanced AI computers. Read More ›
Cassini mission to Saturn
Image: Cassini Saturn orbiter via JPL/NASA.

NASA Persecution Case Reaches a Grim Anniversary

What happened to David Coppedge illustrates how the scientific “consensus” on intelligent design is enforced. Read More ›

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