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Epigenetics and the Arts Lover

Here is yet another clue about how we are both spiritual and physical beings. The two realms are connected in mysterious and remarkable ways. Read More ›
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Bee-ing There: Innovative Behavior by Bees

The design of organisms that have sufficient brain complexity and that produce these goal-directed behaviors requires an intelligent agent. Read More ›
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When Bumblebees Cheat at Games

Perhaps the most significant aspect of the findings is in light of the fact that the bumblebee has only about one million neurons (humans have 86 billion). Read More ›
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In Seattle, Socialism Is the Flip Side of a Faulty Evolutionary Theory

Mayor Katie’s father is David Sloan Wilson, an esteemed evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University. Read More ›
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Sophistication of Bee Decision-Making Is a Mystery, Unless Design Hypothesis Is Permitted

Distinguishing a real flower from a flower print on a woman’s dress can come into play, possibly requiring some experimental probing. Read More ›
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If You Want Creative Storytelling, Look No Further than Evolutionary Psychology

If evolutionary psychology attempts to explain every behavior, including each behavior’s opposite, can it really explain anything? Read More ›
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Physicist Eric Hedin: Information Processing as a Hallmark of Life

I begin a two-part conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin, a physicist and author who’s been asking bold questions about the hidden patterns of life. Read More ›
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Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief 

The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Read More ›
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Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done

The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes. Read More ›
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How Evolutionary Theory Confuses the Study of Human History: Case of the Stone Spheres

Any state of affairs that dates to eons ago can be referred to as “evolution” even when, as in this case, the facts imply the opposite. Read More ›

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