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Date
October 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Billions of Missing Links, books, Charles Darwin, Coast to Coast AM, consciousness, Doctor's Diary, evolution, Geoffrey Simmons, George Noory, intelligent design, internists, lecturers, listeners, patients, radio, Science and Culture Today, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Consciousness and Intelligent Design: Dr. Simmons on Coast to Coast Tonight

_{Science and Culture
October 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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He tells us, “My patients have contacted me from all over the world having heard me on this show on previous occasions.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred William Bennett, anoura, anthologies, bats, biological origins, books, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, chelonians, convergence, Darwinists, development, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, excommunication, growth, humans, Ichthyosauria, Inkwell Classics in Evolution and Design, Inkwell Press, John Henry Newman, monographs, natural selection, On the Genesis of Species, pterodactyles, Roman Catholics, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Descent of Man, The Saturday Review, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vertebrata, William George Ward}

An 1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch

_{William A. Dembski
September 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A new series aims to restore a historically honest balance to the debate over evolution and design in the study of biological origins. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, bat, books, chimp, China, computer program, data, dog, Human, Immanuel Kant, Johns Hopkins University, Jorge Luis Borges, loss, love, memories, Ming Dynasty, mortality, movies, neuroscience, philosophy, quantum realm, Ray Kurzweil, reason, simulation, The Immortal Mind, The Rigor of Angels, Thomas Nagel, Werner Heisenberg, William Egginton}

Your Mind Uploaded to AI Would Not Be You

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 5, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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In death, the immortal mind, whose memories the computer supposedly holds, has moved on. The simulation may be a good one but it is not a surviving self. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Arts
Linguistics
Sociology
Tagged
, Bible, books, censorship, civilization, communication, COVID-19, economy, education, Fahrenheit 451, governance, Guy Montag, James Marriott, Jared Henderson, literacy, literacy rates, literature, memory, Newsweek, oral culture, post-literate culture, Ray Bradbury, screens, stories, storytelling, technology, Ted Gioia, television, UnHerd, visual media, Western canon, young people}

Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture?

_{Peter Biles
August 29, 2025

Arts, Linguistics, Sociology

5}

Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artwork, books, candor, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, evolution, humor, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, illustrators, ink, Jay Richards, Jody Sjogren, Jonathan Wells, journals, machines, magazines, materialist paradigm, organisms, Paul Nelson, pen, podcast, Richard Sternberg, textbooks, Tom Woodward, visual media}

On Illustrating the Icons of Evolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 24, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Artistic license has been used to promote Darwinian evolution since the late 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 9, 2025

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aesthetics, AI slop, algorithms, articles, artificial intelligence, books, business, Center for Science and Culture, creative writing, culture, headlines, human exceptionalism, humans, Javanese, Krakatoa, large language models, life coach, machines, Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot, Mind Matters, nonsense, personal assistant, Peter Biles, photographs, Plato's Revenge, podcasts, Ted Gioia, writers}

A Needed Protest Against “AI Slop” and AI “Word Vomit”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 9, 2025

Arts, Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s all another lesson in human exceptionalism. I believe we will wake up from the AI delusion someday. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anecdotes, articles, atheism, books, hubris, humility, humor, ID the Future, intellectual honesty, intelligent design, interviews, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jonathan Wells, online course, podcast, Richard Sternberg, scientific truth, video}

Humor, Humility, and a Treasured Friend and Colleague: Sternberg Remembers Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 19, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Wells would occasionally bring up lessons he had learned about hubris from a famous tragic play by German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", animals, bears, books, Casey Luskin, chihuahua, DNA, evolution, fiction, Foresight (book), foxes, genes, How Life Works, intelligent design, machines, Marcos Eberlin, meaning, Oskar Schindler, otters, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, Science and Faith in Dialogue, self-sacrifice, work, writing}

The End of the Machine Metaphor?

_{Emily Reeves
January 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
November 2, 2024

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, books, cathedrals, ChatGPT, creativity, human beings, intelligence, large language models, materialism, music, music theory, nature, Oxford University, sentience, soul, The Lord of the Rings, theists, Turing test, War and Peace}

Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

_{Peter Biles
November 2, 2024

Arts, Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), biologists, books, critics, evolution, genius, George Orwell, intelligent design, interviews, Jonathan Wells, New Zealand, puzzles, scholarship, truth, Vietnam War, Zombie Science (book)}

From Puzzles to Prison: Jonathan Wells in His Own Words

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We are receiving many emails expressing appreciation of him as a man, a thinker, a scientific investigator, a writer, a mentor, and a friend. Read More ›