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Privileged Species

Geneticist Michael Denton thinks science is now pointing the way to the specialness of all humanity. Read More ›
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To Ask “Where Is God in This Pandemic?” Is to Acknowledge that God Exists

The problem of theodicy is real, of course. We don’t always know or understand God’s ways. Read More ›
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“Surgeons as ‘Vultures’”: Medical Journal Pushes Harvesting Kidneys from Dying Patients

When organ-transplant medicine was launched, a wary society was solemnly promised that organs would be taken only from the dead. Read More ›
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Dr. Gunter’s Junk Science on Abortion

An embryo is fully human, as is a fetus, a newborn, a toddler, a child, a teen, a mature adult and an elderly adult. Read More ›
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This Week, Science Uprising Is Coming to Facebook; Here’s How You Can Help

Each day this week we’ll be posting one of the episodes on the CSC Facebook page. Here’s what you can do right now to help. Read More ›
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Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh.

New Engineering Textbook, Hacking the Cosmos, Argues for Intelligent Design

According to Halsmer, engineering involves “the creative use of resources and ingenuity to accomplish a purpose or solve a problem.” It does so by creating “affordances.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA/Joshua Stevens.

The Earth: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

Even James Lovelock, who created Gaia Theory, now worries that environmentalism has become a religion. Read More ›
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Photo: Levallois stone tool technology, by Muséum de Toulouse [CC BY-SA 3.0].

Bechly: Lessons from the Ongoing “Rewrite” of Human Origins

The traditional “Out of Africa” theory is being abandoned as weakly supported by evidence, in favor of a welter of other hypotheses. Read More ›
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Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human “Improvement”

Peter Clarke claims that I was “clearly fearmongering,” but then admits, “this depiction is fairly accurate.” Okay, then. Read More ›

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