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Image: David Hume, by Allan Ramsay, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

With Our Exceptional Place in Nature, Human Reason Is Much More than Machine “Reason”

Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” Read More ›
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A Dose of Engineering Realism Over AI Hype

Dr. Donald C. Wunsch has spent decades working at the intersection of engineering, AI, and real-world systems. Read More ›
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Montañez: Story of Everything Is “Delicious,” Not Like Eating Your Vegetables

Personally, I would have zero interest in a faith-based movie that preached at you. Read More ›
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A Link Between the Okapi and the Giraffe? It Seems Not

The question of how the giraffe’s extremely long neck originated remains entirely unresolved within an evolutionary framework. Read More ›
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What’s Bothering Augustine?

I began to understand that there was a rich history of the interaction between the Church and premodern science, but not one that is widely known. Read More ›
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As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Read More ›
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Photo: Academy of Athens, by George E. Koronaios, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense

"Various scientists have sought to define the 'physical limits to computation,' and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that." Read More ›
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You’re Invited: CELS 2025 Applications Are Open!

This is not a conference for listening to ID thought leaders (though many will be there), but an opportunity to jump in and become part of the conversation. Read More ›
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Photo: Ray Kurzweil, by Nathan Jacobson.

Ray Kurzweil Predicts: The “Singularity” by 2045

Under Kurzweil’s transhumanist vision of the future, AI promises us superhuman capabilities complete with heaven on earth and eternal life. Read More ›
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Photo: Archaeopteryx Berlin specimen, M Jorge Guimaraes via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions. Read More ›

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