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New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”

"Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose." Read More ›
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Breaking Google Bard

The fundamental problem with these systems is Goedelian. Kurt Goedel showed that formal systems like this are unable to extract themselves from these systems. Read More ›
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Can a Dog Be Bred to Be as Smart as a Human?

An enterprising electrical engineer, Payton Pearson, thinks it can be done. There are reasons for doubt. Read More ›
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How Materialism Proves Unbounded Scientific Ignorance

There is an infinite number of things that are true that we cannot prove scientifically and never will. Read More ›
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Listen: Mathematician Gregory Chaitin on Gödel, Incompleteness … and Children

Chaitin discusses his beginnings in computer science, growing up in the 1960s a stone’s throw from Central Park, historic scientists in his field, and more. Read More ›
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Physicist: Gravity Refutes Free Will

Atheists share an attraction to using gravity in strange ways to support their doctrines. Read More ›
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Marks, Bringsjord: Confound Your Atheist Friends with Gödel’s “God Theorem”

You didn’t know that Gödel was a theist and that a proof of God’s existence was discovered among his papers when he died? Well here it is. Read More ›
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Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer” 

Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms. Read More ›
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Naturalism and Self-Refutation

How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism? Read More ›
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Leap Before You Look: Reflections on the Mission and “Evolution” of Discovery Institute

I helped form Discovery Institute 25 years ago and over that period, if I may use the term, it has evolved. Read More ›

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