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Capture the essence of collective consciousness through digital connectivity by visualizing it in a dynamic and visually striking manner from a worms-eye view Create a design that symbolizes
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Conscious AI, You Say? Here Are Six Models of Consciousness

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a mathematically founded emergence model. Michael Egnor and I recently published a paper critiquing IIT. Read More ›
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Discovering Interoception, the Body’s Internal Dialogue

The coordinated information exchange and irreducible complexity required for these systems to function suggest foresight and engineering. Read More ›
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The Incredible “Floating” Human Knee Joint

I fully agree with Nathan Lents that the evolutionary paradigm predicts the knee should be a very poor design Read More ›
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Postcard from North Carolina: College Students Respond to Scientific Evidence for a Creator

Skepticism should be a last resort rather than a starting point. If truth is knowable, we should pursue it as our highest priority. Read More ›
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War on the Founding: New Book by John West Describes the “Battle for America’s Soul”

At the present moment, defending the Declaration as our creed puts you on a collision course with some very influential people. Read More ›
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Is This a Transitional “Missing Link” for Giraffes? Nope

The giraffe’s fossil record reflects a pattern of abrupt appearance rather than the infinitesimally small variations. Read More ›
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Debating Intelligent Design, Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points

With DNA replication, it is unclear what other systems any of the components might be co-opted from. Read More ›
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Fine-Tuning and the Infinite Multiverse

An endless multiverse is a context in which every outcome occurs infinitely many times, rendering calculations of probability ill-defined. Read More ›
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Photo: Samotherium, not a true intermediate of the giraffe, © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Giraffes and the Fossil Record: Bad News for Neo-Darwinism

Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig highlights the discrepancies in the fossil record that cause the traditional Darwinian narrative to unravel. Read More ›
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Foundational Evidence for Design: The Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics

For almost the last 40 years, I have understood the truth of Gange's statement based on its foundation in well-established laws of physics. Read More ›

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