Tag: fiction

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
August 31, 2026

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, 9/11, artificial inteligence, Benjamin Franklin, bombing, Chicago, Christianity, Chronicles, disaster preparedness, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, district attorney, fiction, Geoffrey Simmons, George Whitefield, Hiroshima, Hollywood, intelligent design, John Zmirak, Just War, Manhattan Project, Michael Crichton, Michael Fassbender, morality, near-death experiences, nuclear physicists, nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer’s Demon, philosophy, physicians, Robert Oppenheimer, tactical nuclear weapons, The Odyssey, thrillers, World War II, worldview}

Grappling with Our Promethean Past … and Future

_{John Zmirak
August 31, 2026

Arts, Bioethics, Technology

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As with film, we’d also be wise to support works in other genres that skillfully depict fictional worlds infused with a truthful worldview. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 24, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, academic freedom, adults, African-Americans, American Prometheus, bacterial flagellum, bio-warfare, Blue Angels, British Museum, Chicago, Christians, complex specified information, Dan Brown, Discovery Institute Press, emergency preparedness, fiction, Geoffrey Simmons, Hiroshima, intelligent design, Jews, Jonathan Witt, Kai Bird, Marcel Proust, Martin Sherwin, medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Crichton, Microsoft, Midwest, Mount Rushmore, Nagasaki, Neil deGrasse Tyson, neurosurgeons, novelists, Oppenheimer’s Demon, physicians, Redmond, Richard Dawkins, Robert Oppenheimer, Rosetta Stone, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, thrillers}

New Thriller Tackles Intelligent Design and Robert Oppenheimer

_{David Klinghoffer
August 24, 2026

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The pivotal ID element comes in because a beautiful African-American neurosurgeon is testing the limits of academic freedom. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
June 15, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Tagged
, airport paperbacks, American Jews, Arrival (movie), BBC, boomers, Chariots of the Gods, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, compassion, David Grusch, Disclosure Day, Disneyfication, England, extraterrestrials, fiction, Fox News, Gethsemane, goals, idealism, immigrants, inner child, language, Mother Superior, movies, NBC, Passion, Pentagon, personality, phones, pop spirituality, religion, Ross Douthat, Roy Neary, Snow White, Steve Deace, symbolism, TMZ, UFOlogy, World War III}

E.T., Phoned In: The Disneyfied Faith of Steven Spielberg

_{Bethel McGrew
June 15, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science

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Steve Deace has called the film a direct assault on Christianity. This wasn’t exactly my impression. I didn’t feel assaulted so much as vaguely condescended to. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
June 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, alphabet, books, bookshelves, Claude, fair coin, fiction, Hebrew, hexagons, implausible, implossibility, implossible, impossible, intelligent design, Jorge Luis Borges, letters, library, Monty Python, peer-reviewed literature, probability, punctuation, spaces, The Library of Babel, universe, Vindications, World Cup, zero}

On Implossibility (No, Spell-Check Didn’t Fail Me)

_{George Montañez
June 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life

6}

What is the probability of forming a book with at least one hundred words in a row, if we are sampling from the Hebrew alphabet? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 20, 2026

Categories
Arts
Computational Sciences
Ethics
Tagged
, Alexandria, artificial general intelligence, artificial superintelligence, batteries, Brownshirts, Caltech, competition, Elliot Pryce, engineering, experience machine, family, fans, fiction, fidelity, general intelligence, governments, Gustav Mahler, human beings, humans, intelligences, language, light, machine life, Maine, marriage, Mars, metaphysics, Palo Alto, perpetual light, processors, quantum effects, retirement, Robert Nozick, robots, Science and Culture Today, self-preservation, superintelligence, technology, The Battering Company, theorems, University of Texas}

Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

_{William A. Dembski
March 20, 2026

Arts, Computational Sciences, Ethics

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On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Read More ›

Conceptual art journey to dream. Step into another world, Inside of brain, fantasy, escape from life concept. Made with Generative AI

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Big Bang, books, brain, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Murray, classical music, consciousness, Dan Brown, Darwin on Trial, Darwin’s Black Box, death, Denyse O’Leary, dreams, fiction, genome, Gospels, immaterial genome, immaterial reality, Jeremy England, Larry Sanger, Martin Rees, materialism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, New Testament, Plato, Plato’s Revenge, Prague, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Roman Catholics, soul, Stephen Meyer, Taking Religion Seriously, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, universe, Wall Street Journal, Wikipedia}

From Charles Murray to Dan Brown, the Culture Is Maturing Toward the Immortal Mind

_{David Klinghoffer
October 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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The existence of an immaterial reality, a soul, or a genome, is a concept that has been bubbling up, independently, across a range of minds. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 21, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Tagged
, art, beauty, death, evolution, fiction, honor, human life, human nature, literature, love, machines, meaning, movies, philosophers, pornography, Roger Scruton, scientism, social media, universe, Wheaton College}

In a Materialistic Universe, Literature Doesn’t Make Sense

_{Peter Biles
August 21, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution

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Some assume humanity’s longstanding appreciation for art, be it literary, visual, or musical, has evolutionary groundings. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", animals, bears, books, Casey Luskin, chihuahua, DNA, evolution, fiction, Foresight (book), foxes, genes, How Life Works, intelligent design, machines, Marcos Eberlin, meaning, Oskar Schindler, otters, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, Science and Faith in Dialogue, self-sacrifice, work, writing}

The End of the Machine Metaphor?

_{Emily Reeves
January 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 22, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, English, fiction, large language models, literature, Ludwig van Beethoven, Michelangelo, Ray Kurzweil, William Shakespeare}

Arguing About Taste with Large Language Models

_{William A. Dembski
October 22, 2024

Bioethics, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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When Large Language Models aspire to the literary genius of James Joyce, what could go wrong? Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
June 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adoption, atheism, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christopher Hitchens, Darwinism, fiction, Guillermo Gonzalez, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Intelligent Design Uncensored, literature, Michael Behe, novels, Richard Dawkins, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet, young adults}

The Farm at the Center of the Universe: Q&A with the Authors

_{Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt
June 4, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The granddad is the novel’s primary defender of intelligent design and belief in God. He’s a bright, curious retired chemistry professor. Read More ›