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Thoughts of Evil in a Designed World

Nowhere in the animal world do we see evil that comes anywhere close to comparing with the unfortunate depths of evil displayed by humanity. Read More ›
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Are Near-Death Experiences Science Now?

The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences. Read More ›
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Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand

We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy. Read More ›
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Why the Blood Clotting Cascade Challenges Evolution

The coagulation cascade cannot evolve unless there is simultaneously a mechanism in hand for controlling it. Both would have to arise at the same time. Read More ›
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Listen: The Innovative Cellular Engineering That Keeps Us Alive

When left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward death, not life. So what does it take for life to exist? Read More ›
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Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Read More ›
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Scientists Discover a “New” Fourth (Meningeal) Membrane Surrounding the Brain

When it comes to causation, there are only two classes of causal forces; those are material causes and intelligent causes. Read More ›
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The Fantasy of Living Forever in a Computer

If eternal life is attainable, it will be found by working on one’s soul in faith, not by developing ever-more-advanced AI computers. Read More ›
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Dear Transhumanists: Do You Really Want to Live Forever?

A life of meaning is what we truly need, and perhaps what we most deeply desire. Read More ›
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Near-Death Research Slowly Fills in the Picture

When an 87-year-old man was having his brain scanned, he died — unexpectedly — of a heart attack. So, the scan recorded his unanticipated final brain activity. Read More ›

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