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Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story

The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning. Read More ›
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Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 7469, by ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans.

How Modern Physics Reveals Purpose in the Universe

Scientists agree that our universe is finely tuned for the existence of life. But is the fine-tuning a happy accident or the result of foresight? Read More ›
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Photo: Venus flytrap, by Noah Elhardt, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Bioelectricity Gives Biologists a Jolt

We’ve explored bioelectricity in cells. We’ve looked at it within the human body. Now, electrical engineering is being found in the realms between. Read More ›
Trinity Detonation
Photo: Trinity detonation, by United States Department of Energy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Read More ›
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CDC Undercounts Suicide Epidemic by Not Including Assisted Deaths

You can call a dung beetle a butterfly, but it remains a dung beetle. The term suicide defines what is done, not why. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA.

Physics to God: Rational Arguments for Design in the Universe

It’s time to get more intimately acquainted with the strange and wonderful numbers that hold our universe together. Read More ›
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DNA
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Barbieri’s Dilemma: Biological Information without Intelligence

The problem is obvious: Information is by its nature immaterial. It is measured in bits, not kilograms or joules. Read More ›
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Quiz: Is This a Prediction from the Tree of Life?

Conservation of function, but not genes, can be understood with an analogy to natural language. Consider two sentences. Read More ›
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René Descartes
Image: René Descartes, after Frans Hals, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design in Imaginary Numbers

René Descartes, in 1637, is credited with being the first to assign this label to results involving the square root of a negative number. Read More ›
George Orwell
Photo: George Orwell, by Cassowary Colorizations, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink

The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous. Read More ›

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