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On Minds and Machines, Richard Dawkins’s Curious Inconsistency

If we encounter far more advanced informational technology in living organisms, isn’t the same intuition at least worth considering? Read More ›
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Goodness of Nature’s Design

Franklin is famous for his aphorisms and science experiments, but fewer people know he also had a keen interest in theology. Read More ›
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Cellular Design: More than Information, It Is the Manifestation of an Idea

I’ll attempt to describe an additional aspect of living organisms that highlights their “wholeness” and negates the possibility of reducing life to information. Read More ›
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Can You Trust Your Thoughts? The Argument from Reason and Its Implications for Darwinism

If human thoughts are merely the result of blind physical processes, then there is no logical basis for trusting our own minds. Read More ›
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Re-evaluating Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Read More ›
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“Malinformation” — Another Sinister Neologism from the Folks Who Specialize in Them

The government got lots of support from an academic elite that was anxious to introduce Newspeak terms including “malinformation.” Read More ›
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Science Journal: Humanity’s Big Brains Evolved “For No Particular Reason”

This is tantamount to saying the human brain, chief marvel in the cosmos as far as we can tell, evolved because, well, why the heck not? Read More ›
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It’s Time for a “Disclosure Day” on Design in Nature

The culture has been buzzing about Steven Spielberg’s latest, which depicts whistleblowers releasing evidence about UFOs that the government has hidden. Read More ›
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Cronin’s Assembly Theory Continues to Perform Its Magic

Cronin and Walker know what is wrong with origin-of-life research. They’re just afraid of what may be right. Read More ›
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McGill University Refutes Pop-Psychology Claim that Humans Have a “Lizard Brain”

The false belief traces back to the fact that Carl Sagan was one of its strongest proponents. Read More ›

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