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Pascal's calculating machine
Photo: Pascal's calculating machined, by Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator

Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction? Read More ›
Northern Lights
Photo: Northern lights, by Lenny K Photography from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Incompleteness Theorems Point to a Hidden Realm

A “hidden realm” behind the common-sense realm of “local realism” — this is the actual nature of the reality in which we live. Read More ›
Apollo 17
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“All Things Are Ordered to Their End” 

In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Read More ›
Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds
Image credit: Martin Johnson Heade, "Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds."

Stephen Meyer: Scientific Arguments for a Theistic Worldview

Are there strong scientific arguments for theism? Is there such a thing as objective morality? Read More ›
DNA
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To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Read More ›
chicken embryo
embryonic development
Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Read More ›
Ganymede casts a shadow on Jupiter
Photo: Ganymede casts a shadow on Jupiter, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Thomas Thomopoulos © CC BY.

Is the Cosmos One Big Happy Accident?

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards discusses distortions and outright falsehoods presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Read More ›
ichneumon wasp
Photo: An ichneumon wasp, aka Darwin wasp, by Vengolis, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Debate on the “Randomness” of Mutation 

The historical wellspring of randomness in evolutionary theory is Darwin’s own insistence on “chance” at the causal foundations of life. Read More ›
math
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Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?

Some think that math is invented. Evidence, though, points towards its discovery. Read More ›
Poland
Image: Courtesy of Dr. Michael Chaberek OP.

Faith, Science, and Secularization — An Illuminating Conference in Poland

Similar to many others among the founders of modern science, Copernicus was a believer in God and clearly a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›

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