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Walt Disney’s Views on Science and Its Dangers

Disney’s worldview was an interesting blend of 19th-century morals with a 21st-century vision for science and technology. Read More ›
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Walt Disney’s Views on Evolution

On the Magic Skyway, animatronics were used to tell stories of ages past, from the age of the dinosaurs to the arrival of man. Read More ›
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The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game

In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers. Read More ›
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Photo: C. S. Lewis, via Asar Studios/Alamy (Celestial Images).

John West: How C. S. Lewis Anticipated Our Experience of Scientism

I was shocked during Covid by the way healthy respect for science shaded rapidly into cowering submission and unquestioning scientistic worship of authority. Read More ›
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How Darwinism Dodges the Iceberg 

When I viewed the stranded vessel in 1992 it looked remarkably well preserved, but of course functionally it was a mere “zombie” craft. Read More ›
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What Do Animals Feel? And What About Babies?

With human babies, those who propose laws against cruelty suddenly enter a Cold Zone, at least compared to their feelings for crustaceans. Read More ›
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Feder, Zimmer on the Boltzmann Brain Problem and the Measure Problem

If a grand multiverse contains everything that’s possible, it ends up explaining nothing. Read More ›
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To Reject Intelligent Design, Here’s What You Have to Believe

The prevailing view in science today is that physics explains all of chemistry, and chemistry explains all of biology. Read More ›
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Neanderthals May Be “Same Species” As Us

Using coalescence analyses and molecular clock assessments, the researchers reconstructed a timeline of genetic events. Read More ›
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Photo: A lionfish, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Evolution in Real Time” (Yeah, Right)

Yet another article announces a sociological study has found public attention towards the lionfish “is aiding in monitoring its evolution nearly in real time.” Read More ›

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