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David Klinghoffer

Date
June 15, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
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, aliens, Bethel McGrew, Bible, blockbuster, C. S. Lewis, Casey Luskin, charm, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, demons, director, Disclosure Day, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, empathy, entertainment, extraterrestrials, faith, faith and science, government, heresy, humanoids, humans, humor, intelligent design, Jews, life forms, marketing, movies, Rod Dreher, Science and Culture Today, social media, Space Trilogy, spirituality, Steven Spielberg, storytelling, sweaters, theaters, theology, ticket sales, Variety}

Spielberg’s Latest Is E.T. Without the Charm

_{David Klinghoffer
June 15, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science

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Of the two characters in the film whom Steven Spielberg presents to us as the most compassionate and wise, one is a Catholic nun. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
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, Adam, Anil Seth, animals, Baruch Spinoza, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, David Chalmers, earth, eliminative materialism, evolution, Genesis, hard problem of consciousness, heavens, humans, inanimate matter, Karl Popper, matters, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, neuroscientists, New York University, Noema, philosophers, soul, theoretical physics, Thomas Kuhn, Tim Bayne}

Prominent Physicist Wishes Away the Hard Problem of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 12, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Recently Carlo Rovelli fell into an all-too-common trap for creative thinkers. He offered an opinion on a subject outside his discipline. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, __recommended, anthropology, apes, Barbie doll, Bayesian reasoning, Christianity, culture, dancing, Dungeons and Dragons, Elsevier, evolutionary requirements, feasting, human behavior, human origins, humanity, humans, indigenous peoples, Islam, John Speth, Judaism, movies, non-rational behaviors, praying, Quaternary Environments and Humans, singing, spirituality, survival, University of Michigan, war, witches, wizards}

Paper: Human Behavior Shows We’re “Far More Complex than Just a ‘Souped-Up’ Ape”

_{Casey Luskin
June 12, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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How do we explain all the “mind-boggling sweep” of time-consuming behavior that isn’t directly necessary for survival? Read More ›

A dna structure design with glowing particles.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 11, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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, __recommended, biology, CCCTC-binding factor, DNA, DNA structure, function, G-quadruplex, G4s, gene expression, genome, genome topology, guanine, humans, junk DNA, minisatellite, non-B DNA, pericentromeric repeats, PNAS, repetitive DNA, telomeres, telomeric repeats, topologically associating domains}

More Functions Reported for Repeat “Junk” DNA

_{Casey Luskin
June 11, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Papers note that repetitive DNA — the type of DNA that our junk-DNA-defending friends assure us must be functionless — is vital for forming G4 structures. Read More ›

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Date
June 11, 2026

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Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
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, Adam Kovac, Akshaye A. Bhambore, behavior, biology, bumblebees, cheating, flowers, humans, insects, neurons, paywall, researchers, Science (journal), Scientific American, sugar, tools, zoology}

When Bumblebees Cheat at Games

_{Science & Culture
June 11, 2026

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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Perhaps the most significant aspect of the findings is in light of the fact that the bumblebee has only about one million neurons (humans have 86 billion). Read More ›

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Date
June 10, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Scientific Reasoning
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, academics, AI slop, artificial inteligence, arXiv, bioRxiv, citations, clinical-trial studies, fabrication, Frankencitations, hallucinations, humans, Jay Van Bavel, Nature (journal), PubMed Central, references, researchers, scholars, SSRN, systematic reviews}

In Science Research, a Plague of Phony Citations Generated by AI

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June 10, 2026

Ethics, Scientific Reasoning

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Ironically, the public has been taught to worry that AI is taking over and will do everything better than humans. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
June 10, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Metaphysics
Tagged
, child, Claude, Claudia, consciousness, conversations, design, employee, encyclical, evolutionary logic, humans, Large Language Model, LLMs, machines, men, mice, person, Pope Leo XIV, Richard Dawkins, self-reflection, slave, spiritual communion, Ted Chiang, telos, The Atlantic, The Free Press, Tyler Cowen, UnHerd, wisdom, word-generation machines, writing, zombies}

Zombie Metaphysics: Dawkins Versus Pope Leo

_{Bethel McGrew
June 10, 2026

Computational Sciences, Metaphysics

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This casual devaluing of consciousness is actually intertwined with the rush to ascribe it to AI. The ultimate conclusion is the same. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alien abduction, aliens, biology, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Christians, church, common designer, Daily Mail, Daily Wire, director, Disclosure Day, Donald Trump, ethnicity, evolution, extraterrestrials, Federal Government, grays, humanoids, humans, hype, intelligent aliens, intelligent design, Jews, movies, predictions, religion, Star Trek, Steven Spielberg, transcendent being, UFOs, White House}

If You Care About Faith, Bring on the Aliens, Mr. Spielberg!

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Luskin: "If alien life does exist, and if it looks or works even remotely like human biology, then it did not arise by blind evolution." Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 8, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Zoology
Tagged
, algorithms, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, automatons, bees, brains, Cartesianism, ChatGPT, consciousness, Greek, humans, hype, materialism, neuroscience, philosophers, rational faculty, rational minds, Science Daily, Singularity}

Of Bee Brains, ChatGPT, and Fists of Ham

_{Jonathan Witt
June 8, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Zoology

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Happily, a recent philosopher has provided some intellectual tools for avoiding the sort of ham-fisted either/or approach to consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 3, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, air, Bible, communication, earth, equations, food, Genesis, George MacDonald, humans, illusion, intelligent design, laws of nature, life, materialism, materialistic worldview, matter, meaning, movements, particles, perception, Periodic Table, reality, Stephen L. Talbott, The New Atlantis, theism, universe}

Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View

_{Eric Hedin
June 3, 2026

Faith & Science, Physics

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The quasi-scientific abstraction that glibly asserts our being “nothing more” than particle interactions is as wrong as it is right. Read More ›