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Richard-Sternberg
Photo: Richard Sternberg, via Science Uprising.

Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge

All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs. Read More ›
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Image credit: William Quiller Orchardson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Don’t We Remember Being Babies?

If we were not conscious, we could hardly have learned all that we had to learn in those first few months of life. Read More ›
parallel-bars
Photo credit: West Point, U.S. Military Academy, via Flickr (cropped).

Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Read More ›
Snæfellsjökull
Photo: Snæfellsjökull, by Axel Kristinsson from Reykjavík, Iceland, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Read More ›
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New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Read More ›
driverless car
Photo credit: BP63Vincent, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Read More ›
Ovid Banished from Rome
Image: Ovid Banished from Rome, by J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ovid in His Exile

Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University was the scene of many strange experiments. Read More ›
spiral galaxy NGC 6872
Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 6872, by NASA/ESO/JPL-Caltech/DSS.

Watch: Here Are Several Minutes of Design-Detection Brainstorming with Lex Fridman

I’ve never heard such a concise account of the principal methodological difficulties of inferring an unconstrained intelligence as a TESTABLE cause. Read More ›
parallel-bars
Photo credit: West Point, U.S. Military Academy, via Flickr (cropped).

Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Read More ›
David Berlinski Ben Shapiro
Photo: David Berlinski via the Ben Shapiro Show.

David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism

We live in intellectually mediocre times, when commitment to true debate has been replaced by a desire to stifle heterodox thought. Read More ›

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