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Great Minds with Michael Medved

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Richards, Medved: Sex Robots and the Future “Smart Machine” Dystopia

There are some definite “Stop the world, I want to get off” moments in the new Great Minds with Michael Medved podcast from Discovery Institute. Read More ›
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Great Minds: Medved and Gelernter on Human Exceptionalism, American Exceptionalism

The human mind is exceptional in the universe as the United States is exceptional on the face of the Earth. Read More ›
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Randall Wallace: “If You’re Faithful to Your Heart, Even if They Cut It Out of Your Chest, You Prevail”

Great Minds with Michael Medved, via Discovery Institute, is an extremely wide-ranging program, by (intelligent) design. Read More ›
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Meyer, Medved on Great Minds — Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›
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David Gelernter: “You Need To Know Who You Are To Begin With”

Knowing who you are, where you came from, is a central purpose of education, and frankly not only in the humanities but in biology. Read More ›
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March for Science Is Back — Time to Talk About the Much Abused Idea of Scientific “Consensus”

Nothing could be timelier than a conversation between Jay Richards and Michael Medved about when it’s permissible to doubt a scientific “consensus.” Read More ›
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Medved, Weikart: The Death of Humanity

Yesterday students across the country participated in a walkout from school to protest against guns, which they understand to be the problem underlying recent school shooting. Read More ›
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Medved, Richards Ask: Are We Alone in the Universe?

If life in the universe is singular, if we’re it and there is no other life, whether intelligent or otherwise, what’s the bad news about that, and what’s the good news? Read More ›
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Michael Medved and Stephen Meyer: What Is Life?

Even if you don’t know how to define life, you know it when you see it. But how? Read More ›

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