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Brian Miller on Complex Systems and “Intellectual Captivity”

Dr. Miller speaks about the prison-like “intellectual captivity” imposed on science students who don’t accept prevailing theories of scientific materialism. Read More ›
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Origin of Life, Public Education, and Religious Neutrality

In a series of lectures and articles, organic chemist James Tour has exposed how research related to the origin of life (OOL) has been scandalously misrepresented to the public. Read More ›
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What Explains the “I Suck” Principle?

Writing at Mind Matters, Michael Egnor dissects another illustration of the “I Suck” impulse at work. It’s from his fellow neuroscientist Steven Novella. Read More ›
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What — Or Who? — Is the Singularity?

I had thought of the Singularity as an event, to which the universe — physical reality — traces back at the moment of the Big Bang. Read More ›
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What’s Up with the Science Uprising Mask?

Scanning down through the comments section under his post, I noticed a puzzled remark from one reader. Read More ›
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Science Uprising Challenges Atheism as the “Smart” Option

I was part of the creative team behind the project. So what is the idea behind that masked hacker, anyhow? Read More ›
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New Engineering Textbook, Hacking the Cosmos, Argues for Intelligent Design

According to Halsmer, engineering involves “the creative use of resources and ingenuity to accomplish a purpose or solve a problem.” It does so by creating “affordances.” Read More ›
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Why a New Center on Teleology in Nature?

Clearly a naturalistic bias is at work here and imposes a limit on the spectrum of alternative explanations that is even considered to be permissible. Read More ›
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How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin’s Foresight

He concludes that “evolutionary ‘just so’ stories” are examples of “wishful thinking starved of molecular details.” Read More ›

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