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Grappling with Our Promethean Past … and Future

As with film, we’d also be wise to support works in other genres that skillfully depict fictional worlds infused with a truthful worldview. Read More ›
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C. W. Howell in Context: A Brief History of Histories

One positive aspect: Howell rightly observes that some other would-be histories of ID, especially those by written by critics, are “polemical” and “activist.” Read More ›
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Mind Behind the Universe? A Stereotype About Scientists May Be Crumbling

Joel Kotkin points to a recent conference that brought together top engineers, mathematicians, and scientists to discuss the “new synergy.” Read More ›
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Sweeping Europe, a Pagan Religion Has Daggers Out for This Technology

A religion that sees humans as merely “an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet” would consider these unnecessary deaths hardly worth noticing. Read More ›
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Can You Trust Your Thoughts? The Argument from Reason and Its Implications for Darwinism

If human thoughts are merely the result of blind physical processes, then there is no logical basis for trusting our own minds. Read More ›
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Genesis Rescripted: Erasmus and Charles Darwin’s Biblical Indebtedness

One may argue that myth still informs the metaphors underlying the formulation of some present-day scientific theories. Read More ›
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The Science of Darwin and Marx Provides No Support for “Unalienable Rights”

Voltaire said that madness is to have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Read More ›
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Designed for Destruction? A Surgeon’s Finger on the Trigger

In this agonized season, Skiff read everything he could get his hands on, searching for meaning somewhere. Read More ›
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Hope from Science and New Polling on America’s Creed

John West discussed the meaning of equality, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, when it’s obvious that individual humans are not all equally gifted. Read More ›
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Disclosure Day Is Fun, But It Didn’t Rock My Faith

Spielberg's message is not only that aliens are real but also that they’re good and they’re our friends. I find that very curious: How is he so sure? Read More ›

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