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Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes

Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary "Third Way" community, states his guiding principles up front. Read More ›
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Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Read More ›
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Photo: Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, via Wikimedia Commons.

SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds

SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›
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New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools

New Atheism is dead. It was conceptually dead from birth, but now it’s stopped twitching. Read More ›
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Milton and the Psychology of Materialism

It is basically the denial of human exceptionalism. That is, it is hatred of man, in practically every way imaginable. Read More ›
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Stephen Hawking: Off the Planet, to the Moon, in 200-500 Years

I am struck by the similarities between Hawking’s call for space exploration and the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the Paris climate accords. Read More ›

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