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New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU

Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins’s view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection. Read More ›
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Photo: Acid mine drainage, a home for archaea, by Jakec, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Elephant in the Science Lab

I have been seeking to describe the science of purpose. Now it is worth getting down to the basics of what science actually is and how it works. Read More ›
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Photo: Border collie, by Iceblueblue, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Can a Dog Be Bred to Be as Smart as a Human?

An enterprising electrical engineer, Payton Pearson, thinks it can be done. There are reasons for doubt. Read More ›
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Quantum Physics Axed Materialism. Many Hope the World Won’t Know

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder struggles to explain how quantum mechanics is consistent with materialism. Read More ›
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Image: Voltaire reads the Orphan of China, by Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Loss of the Enlightenment Paradigm

As a plethora of books, articles, and TV programs have recently intoned, our almost complete ignorance of the nature of ultimate reality has been laid bare. Read More ›
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Photo: Galaxy IC 5332, by James Webb Space Telescope/NASA, via Flickr (cropped).

On Cosmic Origins, “James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed Nothing to Overturn Consensus”

Stephen Meyer addresses challenges to the Big Bang model, including a claim that images from the James Webb Space Telescope had panicked cosmologists. Read More ›
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Photo: Cartwheel Galaxy, by James Webb Space Telescope, via NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Meyer: Webb Telescope Confirms a Cosmic Beginning

The philosophical stakes were just too enormous. Materialism could not accept so massive a confirmation of Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning…” Read More ›
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Here’s a New Evolutionary Theory Based on Information

Information follows different rules from matter and energy, which might change the way we see evolution. Read More ›
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Must We Be Able to Reason to Be Thought of as Human Persons?

A common argument as to why abortion is generally ethical is that the unborn child cannot reason. Read More ›
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A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism

“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead. Read More ›

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