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“Malinformation” — Another Sinister Neologism from the Folks Who Specialize in Them

The government got lots of support from an academic elite that was anxious to introduce Newspeak terms including “malinformation.” Read More ›
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Human Consciousness, from Mud to Mind?

If human language — which is unlike any other communication in nature — evolved from something, we simply have no idea what that something is.  Read More ›
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On Our 250th Anniversary, There Is a Battle for America’s Soul

While some researchers have "personified" their apes, others have mechanized their concept of man. Read More ›
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Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism

It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›
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E.T., Phoned In: The Disneyfied Faith of Steven Spielberg

Steve Deace has called the film a direct assault on Christianity. This wasn’t exactly my impression. I didn’t feel assaulted so much as vaguely condescended to. Read More ›
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Meyer, Knowles: The Evolutionary Mystery of Language

If languages evolve in the familiar Darwinian manner, you would expect there to be a range of sophistication levels across the spectrum of human languages. Read More ›
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“Beyond Mendel”: Leading Investigators Appeal for a New Genetics

Top-down causation makes a lot more sense from a design perspective than from any reductionist, lower-levels-first approach. Read More ›
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Network Technology: Biology Does It Better

Our modern world surrounds us with hi-tech networks, but biology has had them since the beginning of life. Read More ›
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Supposed Human Ancestor Falls Victim to Research Politics

Casey Luskin describes a culture of silence in paleoanthropology driven by competition, prestige, and political pressure. Read More ›
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Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Read More ›

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