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COSM, Entanglement, and Implications for Materialism

If these points don’t reveal evidence of intelligent design in nature, what does?  Read More ›
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Benoît B. Mandelbrot: A Maverick Who Broke the Consensus

The Mandelbrot set reminds me of the Fibonacci series that, in a similar way, gives rise to aesthetically pleasing patterns in a wide variety of natural phenomena. Read More ›
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Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design in Color Vision — A Gift to Us

How different our perception of reality would be if our brains processed visual signals from the optical nerve as only varying shades of beige or pink or grey! Read More ›
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Sabine Hossenfelder, Taking on Consciousness, Tackles Panpsychism

She wants to apologize to all carrots who are watching her video — but carrots are not watching and that’s the point. Read More ›
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Apart from Non-Material Consciousness, Science Is Impossible

Whether and how we choose to measure something has a big impact, which makers consciousness very difficult to just explain away. Read More ›
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Quantum Physics Axed Materialism. Many Hope the World Won’t Know

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder struggles to explain how quantum mechanics is consistent with materialism. Read More ›
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As Conscious Observers, Do We Help Create Our World?

That’s the big question in quantum mechanics, as science communicator Elizabeth Fernandez explains. Read More ›
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Brian Miller: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Engineering in the Biological Sciences”

Dr. Miller takes on a number of specific examples including the celebrated eyeless cavefish, which he “used to think was an absolute win for microevolution.” Read More ›
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How Does the Intelligibility of Nature Point to Design?

Albert Einstein famously remarked that “the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…[t]he fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.” Read More ›

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