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Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions

Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›
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Can Science Find God? Stephen Meyer vs. Michael Shermer

Humans seem to be drawn in a certain direction toward truth and beauty. Is that an accident of nature? Read More ›
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The Mystery of Evolution May Be Unsolvable — By Materialist Science

Seventy years later we are still not close to explaining the origin and development of life in terms of entirely natural (unintelligent) causes. Read More ›
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What Is Pseudoscience? A Philosopher Tries to Figure It Out

One is tempted to wonder whether “room for disagreement” is a polite term for Not Yet Cancelled. Read More ›
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Luskin: Why Intelligent Design Is the Truly Scientific Method

That codicil, a matter of personal or philosophical preference, binds and blinds the scientist in a way that is NOT scientific. Read More ›
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Clarifying Loaded Words in the Evolution Debate

Biologist Robert Waltzer describes an encouraging success story of his about fostering open dialogue. Read More ›
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Casey Luskin Versus Dan Stern Cardinale: A Wonderful Debate About “Junk DNA”

Everyone did a great job, and the conversation was science-packed from beginning to end. Not one word of invective, and indeed highly cordial. Read More ›
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Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Read More ›
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How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›
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Did Consciousness Evolve?

Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Read More ›

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