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John West: How C. S. Lewis Anticipated Our Experience of Scientism

I was shocked during Covid by the way healthy respect for science shaded rapidly into cowering submission and unquestioning scientistic worship of authority. Read More ›
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Photo: Ludodactylus sibbicki, by G. Bechly 2008.

Farewell to Günter Bechly

I told Richard Sternberg a story from own experience. I learned about more than paleontology from Bechly. Read More ›
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In the Battle for Biology, Woke Folks Come for Coyne

Woke is, at bottom, a war on reality. It is a war on math. And a war on science. That includes a war on biology, of course. Read More ›
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How Science Has Been Misused to Corrupt Churches

“Sadly, these ‘Stockholm Syndrome Christians’ have played a crucial role in creating our current cultural mess,” argues John West. Read More ›
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What If? The Threat of Sentient AGI

John West brings a word of caution to public health policies espoused by Francis Collins. Collins succinctly illustrates an example of unbalanced morality. Read More ›
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On Giving Tuesday, Feelings Are Not Enough

Here was a believer, a very thoughtful one, who knew nothing about whether the God hypothesis can be defended on objective grounds. Read More ›
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Francis Collins’s “Road to Folly”

How does someone as inept as Francis Collins (and I’m being charitable) have the gall to tell anyone else how to become wise? Read More ›
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Why Should a Baby Live?

My title is adapted from a 2012 article by two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva. Read More ›
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Remembering a Colleague, Mentor, and Friend: Jonathan Wells

To get ready for a research stint he shaved his beard and used hydrogen peroxide to dye his hair bleach blond to avoid being recognized. Read More ›
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Photo: Sarco, by Ratel, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sagan’s “Star Stuff” and the Suicide Pod

If life is nothing more than material or “stuff,” why not allow people to recycle themselves when they feel their useful lifespan has come to an end? Read More ›

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