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Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity

The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other. Read More ›
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Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science”

Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›
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ID’s Top Six — The Origin of Humans

There are many aspects of humanity that point to intelligent design. Read More ›
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Better Babies Through Evolution? Richard Weikart on the Siren Song of Transhumanism

The fact that all this is so far technological fantasy may be its lone saving grace. Read More ›
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What Can We Hope to Learn About Animal Minds?

If we can't even define our own consciousness, can we say whether a different type of life form has consciousness or a mind? Read More ›
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Jerry Coyne Is Determined to Deny Free Will

The deterministic view is that our choices are entirely determined by our current physical state (neurochemistry, gene expression, etc.) and our natural history. Read More ›

Fenton Firm Tries (and Fails) to Sandbag Sen. John McCain and Discovery Institute

Cross-posted at Discovery Blog. “Defcon,” the Campaign to Defend the Constitution (such a high sounding name!), put out a press release and blog post this week that attempted to sandbag Sen. John McCain, criticizing him for speaking to a Seattle policy luncheon today where Discovery Institute was one of the “co-presenters”. Defcon scolded McCain for attending an event in which Discovery was involved and for thereby “lending credence (sic) to this organization”. Defcon called on McCain to cancel the speech. At the definitely un-cancelled event today I asked Sen. McCain if he had heard of Defcon. He hadn’t. Defcon is a creature of Fenton Communications, the left and far-left operation that backs the likes of Cindy Sheehan, Moveon.org, the Council Read More ›

Francis Collins Handles Darwinism’s Universal Acid Like Baby Formula

National Geographic recently posted “Francis Collins: The Scientist as Believer,” an interview by John Horgan. The interview is nearly all about religion, but I have two comments touching on evolution.

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