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Only Bioethicists Can Save the Planet!

Apparently, anyone with any claim to victimization or marginalization can be a bioethicist now. Read More ›
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Humor, Humility, and a Treasured Friend and Colleague: Sternberg Remembers Jonathan Wells

Wells would occasionally bring up lessons he had learned about hubris from a famous tragic play by German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Read More ›
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Far from Chastened by Reality, Scientific Authoritarians Are Doubling Down

Ethan Siegel, an astrophysicist and award-winning science writer, advocates for criminally and civilly punishing violators of the “scientific consensus.” Read More ›
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In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility 

Science has made many of its grandest leaps in the face of a mainstream of scientists stubbornly defending a dominant but misguided paradigm. Read More ›
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How Euthanasia Activists Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Roe

Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe–style decision for their cause. Read More ›
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Making Predictions Against Design

From back when I was a sophomore taking biochemistry, one particular event stands out in my memory, perhaps because it was such an odd thing. Read More ›
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Wesley Smith on Transhumanism — A New Tower of Babel

Wesley has been fighting this fight almost single-handedly, as the media looks on in admiration at attempts to control evolution and usher in a secular New Jerusalem. Read More ›
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Darwin in the Dock: C.S. Lewis’s Critique of "Evolutionism"

By highlighting the all-too-human frailties of modern science, Lewis made his most important contribution to the evolution debate. Read More ›
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Another Reason to Doubt the Relevance of Jeffrey Shallit

Materialist mathematician Jeffrey Shallit has a post on an article in the Globe and Mail about philosophy and the immateriality of the mind. Shallit’s post is titled “Another Reason to Doubt the Relevance of Philosophy”. Shallit doesn’t think much of philosophy: If philosophers think the view that “The brain is not an organ of consciousness. … The brain has no cognitive powers at all” deserves anything more than a good horselaugh, this simply shows how irrelevant philosophy has become … Our future understanding of cognition will come from neuroscience, not from Wittgenstein. Philosophy is plainly irrelevant to Shallit, which is the problem. Wittgenstein may not inform Dr. Shallit’s understanding of cognition, but Descartes, Kant, Hume, James, Skinner, Block, the Churchlands, Read More ›

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