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Walt Disney’s Views on Science and Its Dangers

Disney’s worldview was an interesting blend of 19th-century morals with a 21st-century vision for science and technology. Read More ›
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Walt Disney’s Views on Evolution

On the Magic Skyway, animatronics were used to tell stories of ages past, from the age of the dinosaurs to the arrival of man. Read More ›
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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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Photo: Francis Collins, by NIH Image Gallery, via Flickr.

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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