Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

Big Tech

Oldbookbindings
Photo credit: Tom Murphy VII, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

It’s Time to Buy Old Books Before AI Destroys Them

This scheme is the brain child of technicians, people who lead tech companies and tech labs who are wholly committed to a technological view of the world. Read More ›
Jet-Propulsion-Laboratory
Photo credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, via Flickr.

Theory in Crisis? Circling the Wagons

Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn compared scientific revolutions to political revolutions. Read More ›
Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico
Photo: Detail of Arecibo Observatory, by Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Artificial Intelligences Promises to Level the Playing Field for Intelligent Design

To set the stage, I posed some questions about scientific testability in general and about the testability of the SETI research program. Read More ›
Free Science
Image source: Discovery Institute.

Slouching Toward Totalitarianism — How to Fight Science Censorship

Scientific censorship is on the rise. Governments are colluding with Big Tech to suppress unfavorable ideas Read More ›
book burning
Photo credit: mikael altemark from STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Luskin: Book Banning? Woke Forces Know All About That; They Practiced on Us

"Those 49 words — suggesting that students consult a library book if they wanted to learn more about a scientific idea — were too much for the thought police." Read More ›
computer repair shop
Photo credit: Gerry Dincher, via Flickr (cropped).

Robert J. Mark on AI’s Glaring Errors

Snapchat’s chatbot “My AI” gave advice about how to hide the smell of pot and alcohol to someone posing as a disgruntled teenager. Read More ›
storytelling
Image credit: John Everett Millais, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

By Design: Storytelling Reveals Human Exceptionalism

That humans enjoy being made to wait seems to have been deliberately built into us. It’s unique in nature, an intelligent design. Read More ›
COVID-19
COVID-19
Image: COVID-19, by CDC, via Unsplash.

Listen: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID-19 as One of the Most Divisive Events in American History

Action was taken to suppress heterodox voices. Wesley Smith’s guest is one of those caught in this cultural oppression. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: lisichik, via Pixabay.

The Biggest Obstacle to Accepting Intelligent Design

Unfortunately, big media and big tech work overtime to suppress dissent in science. Read More ›
Jet-Propulsion-Laboratory
Photo credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, via Flickr.

Theory in Crisis? Circling the Wagons

Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn compared scientific revolutions to political revolutions. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute