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Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Read More ›
Steven Weinberg
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John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”

“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began." Read More ›
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Science Versus Certainty: Casey Luskin Talks with Andrew Klavan About Intelligent Design and More

Science is not about granting certainty. Dr. Luskin gives as an illustration his own field, geology. Read More ›
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Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism

The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma.” Read More ›
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Mice Can’t Do Calculus but Their Brains Can

Neuroimaging and mathematics showed that a simple Stop! signal in the brain would not allow a mouse to stop as quickly as it in fact did. Read More ›
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Origin of Life: Saved by Time?

Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem. Read More ›
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Jason Rosenhouse and Specified Complexity

Not all patterns eliminate chance in the presence of improbability. Take an arrow shot at a target. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943)
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How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›
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Imagining “Abiogenesis”: Crick, Watson, and Franklin

There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design: Theistic Implications?

Although the case for intelligent design depends upon scientific evidence and methods of reasoning, it may well have larger theistic implications. Read More ›

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