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Hacking the Cosmos
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 ›
Earth
alive
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 ›
Levallois
human origins
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 ›
artificial intelligence
transhumanism
Photo credit: Franck V. on Unsplash.

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 ›
golden rice
Photo: Benign Golden Rice is shown at the right, by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Don’t Let Anti-GMO Fanatics Thwart Improved Photosynthesis Crops

It is flat-out unreasoning — and in my view, anti-human. Read More ›
Earth and space
Christianity
Photo: The edge of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station, via NASA.

Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

Atheists say people in the Western tradition had to wait for modern science to grasp that the universe was huge, and had to shed historic Judeo-Christian views to do so. Read More ›
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Unbelievable

In Colorado, Two Sneak Previews of Unbelievable

At Colorado State University, I was impressed by a question from a boy who was about 13 years old. Read More ›
Eugenics Quarterly
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons.

Eugenic Sterilization Is STILL Going On

Robert Wilson’s work brought him into contact with survivors of Canada’s eugenics regime, eventually drawing him into research and advocacy. Read More ›

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