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In NY Post, McDiarmid on Social Isolation and the Tech Nightmare

The wearable AI necklace, Friend, opens up a whole new chapter of horror. It’s not a parody: young people wear their “Friend” on their person. Read More ›
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Darwin Devolves (Again): Circular Thinking and the Debilitating Assumptions

"There is a reason why evolutionists focus on the human body as a prime example of bad design." Read More ›
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Dr. Burgess and Lucy Hyde: Explaining Problems with Wisdom Teeth and Jaw

"Again, she’s assuming that humans have evolved from ape-like quadruped creatures. Most apes have very powerful jaws that are bigger than ours." Read More ›
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God Would Not Create Things That Way? Nature Alone Could Not

Why does God remain backstage, hidden from view, working behind the scenes while we act out our parts in the human drama? Read More ›
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Science Journal: Humanity’s Big Brains Evolved “For No Particular Reason”

This is tantamount to saying the human brain, chief marvel in the cosmos as far as we can tell, evolved because, well, why the heck not? Read More ›
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McGill University Refutes Pop-Psychology Claim that Humans Have a “Lizard Brain”

The false belief traces back to the fact that Carl Sagan was one of its strongest proponents. Read More ›
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Endowed with Spontaneity: Celebrating Human Freedom

That’s 1930s-German-philosopher-speak for the power and freedom human beings have to know themselves, be known to others, and be active agents in the world. Read More ›
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Human Consciousness, from Mud to Mind?

If human language — which is unlike any other communication in nature — evolved from something, we simply have no idea what that something is.  Read More ›
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Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design

A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Read More ›
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Hope from Science and New Polling on America’s Creed

John West discussed the meaning of equality, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, when it’s obvious that individual humans are not all equally gifted. Read More ›

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