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Artificial Intelligence Is a Pandora’s Box. What’s in There? Find Out Tomorrow!

Get a glimpse at 7:30 pm as we live-stream Discovery Institute's launch of the new Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Read More ›
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As Research Advances, Debunking “Junk DNA” Is Almost Trendy

Why not treat the whole genome as functional? This is a radical concept, but perhaps the focus on genes distorts our understanding.  Read More ›

Darwin’s House of Cards Gets Praise — And Underinformed Criticism

As Tom Bethell points out, there is a lot more to living things than their DNA. Read More ›
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Alien Octopodes and the Multiverse

It’s ABD — “Anything But Design,” as Sarah Chaffee says — that is, anything but design that might leave open the door to a source of transcendent intelligence. Read More ›
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Encryption System Found in Genes

A clever method of RNA editing may explain the role of introns embedded in genes, and points to even higher levels of programming. Read More ›
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Listen: Deflating the Multiverse, and the New Atheists

Host Ira Berkowitz talks with Rabbi Moshe Averick about his book Nonsense of a Higher Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism. Read More ›
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You Can’t Climb a Mountain with Ostrich Legs

Compromises are driven by the limitations of a material world, but also by the vision that lies behind the design. Read More ›
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Neuroscientist Michael Egnor, the Philosophical Physician, on Science and the Soul

Try to read his essay through to the end without getting chills. Read More ›
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Oral Cavity’s Supposedly “Lousy” Design Is a Key to Human Speech

We’re constantly told that the design of the human larynx, trachea, and oral cavity is poor because it allows for choking on food. Read More ›

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