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A Mathematician’s Simple Yet Profound Arguments for Intelligent Design

We might think that mathematicians are focused on incredibly complex ideas and equations, far above the everyday thoughts of the rest of us. Read More ›
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Life as Computation: An AI Researcher’s (Unwitting) Argument for Intelligent Design

How many computer geniuses did it take in order to produce even a tiny fragment of this complexity? And how great must be the mind that designed all this! Read More ›
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Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More”

Even when formed to perfection, a violin will not “hale souls out of men’s bodies” unless a master musician draws the bow across the strings. Read More ›
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Jay Richards: AI, Robots, and Moravec’s Paradox

Dr. Richards punctures the illusions of AI hype. One is that AI is something really new. Read More ›
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How Understanding Points Beyond Physicalism

A computer science professor shows, using logic, how you must be more than mere matter. Read More ›
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Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi

We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them. Read More ›
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Evolution and Common-Sense Reasoning 

The equations of quantum mechanics do not describe exactly — even in theory — the effects of the fundamental forces on the fundamental particles of physics. Read More ›
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Decline and Fall: A Vision of a Human-Free Planet

As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Read More ›
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To Reject Intelligent Design, Here’s What You Have to Believe

The prevailing view in science today is that physics explains all of chemistry, and chemistry explains all of biology. Read More ›
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The Universal Optimal Design of Vertebrate Limbs

When we look at feats of human engineering, like vehicles, skyscrapers, and computers, we don’t doubt our intuition that they’re intelligently designed. Read More ›

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