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By Design, Earth Is a Planet Fit for Fire

As we have seen so far in this series, fire was an absolutely crucial component in humanity’s rise to civilization and technology. Read More ›
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The Path to Technology Was Built into Nature

All these elements of fitness in nature for the development of technology, crucial to mankind’s rise to civilization, long preceded man’s arrival on Earth. Read More ›
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Berlinski Banters Entertainingly with ID-Friendly Muslims

Dr. Berlinski questions evolutionary understandings of language and expresses doubt as to what reproductive benefit could have accrued to “the first guy to master the Greek subjunctive.” Read More ›
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Two Schemes to Defeat the Second Law

I also have a scheme that I believe can defeat the generalized second law. My scheme is called “intelligence.” Read More ›
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A Darwinist Deconstructs the Declaration of Independence

Yuval Noah Harari quickly gets down to business, unsentimentally shredding Jefferson’s noble phrases. Read More ›
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Great Minds: Medved, Gelernter Ask, “What Is a Conservative?”

The hypothesis of design in nature is a great idea, none greater, that has fueled the best in culture for millennia. Read More ›
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Scientism Is Wrong; Is It Evil, Too?

Granted, scientism can aid and abet evil. Its tendency to do so is predictable. In its blindness it harms and humiliates. Read More ›
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Space Archaeology — How About Cellular Archaeology?

ʻOumuamua is a fascinating object, and certainly deserves further investigation. How could we discern design from non-design? Read More ›
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The “I Won’t Debate” Tactic

Good grief, if we face total calamity by the end of the century, why in the world wouldn’t you debate the science? Read More ›
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Kissinger and Girard on Artificial Intelligence

Any genuine understanding of the impact AI will have (and is having) on humanity must begin with Girard. Read More ›

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