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Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences

If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge. Read More ›
ELIZA
Photo: A therapy session with ELIZA, by Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, Calif., CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Artificial Intelligence Understands by Not Understanding

The ELIZA program, acting as a Rogerian therapist, simply mirrors back to the human what the human says. Read More ›
Macaca fascicularis
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Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›
Brian Keating
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Meyer, Keating: Why Was the Object of Creation So Long in Coming? And Other Good Questions

I listened in the car on my way to and from a funeral. Obviously, the end of life, like its beginning, is an occasion for pondering ultimate questions. Read More ›
Tribrachidium heraldicum
Photo: Tribrachidium heraldicum from the Ediacaran period
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A Precambrian House of Cards

Wow, that's cool, they not only found the elusive Ediacaran animals but even could unravel their genomes!? Read More ›
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Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? Read More ›
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Futuristic Evolution by AI — The Darwin Connection

To evolutionists, whatever oversight humans achieved must have evolved, and will continue to evolve in our creations. Read More ›
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Good News: Dallas Conference on Science and Faith Rescheduled for March 13

"Does our universe point to God? Do molecules show evidence of foresight? Were humans produced by intelligent design?" Read More ›
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NASA Is Overselling Its Mars Perseverance Mission

Synthetic organic chemist James Tour, of Rice University, has shown the folly of NASA scientists and others in a number of videos. Read More ›
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass, Champion Abolitionist and Former Slave, on Evolutionary Racism

One wonders what kind of address Douglass would give on Darwin Day — falling tomorrow, February 12 — amidst Black History Month. Read More ›

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