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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, addiction, culture, Facebook, film, humanity, Instagram, Internet, journalists, literature, loneliness, modern life, money, television, TikTok, United States}

Life with Screens: A Novelist’s Prophetic Warning

_{Peter Biles
April 9, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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David Foster Wallace foresaw the rise of the Internet and its pantheon of seductions. Read More ›

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Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
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, C.S. Lewis, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute, evolution, faith and science, intelligent design, John West, literature, natural selection, The Magician's Twin, theology}

C. S. Lewis on Natural Selection’s Power, or Lack of It

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April 8, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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What were C. S. Lewis's real views on evolution and intelligent design? Dr. John West explores the topic. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, C.S. Lewis, chatbot, ChatGPT, consciousness, Edgar Allan Poe, human uniqueness, literature, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Stephen King, stories, Walter Bradley Center, Wheaton College}

Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story

_{Peter Biles
August 16, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
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, books, censorship, George Orwell, Great Britain, groupthink, intellectuals, intelligentsia, Joseph Stalin, literature, satire, Soviet Union, totalitarianism, Utopia, Winston Churchill}

Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 14, 2023

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

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The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 30, 2023

Categories
Arts
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, astronomers, black holes, civilization, creativity, dark energy, dark matter, electromagnetic force, electrons, elementary particles, elements, gravity, human beings, humanity, image of God, James Webb Space Telescope, Judeo-Christian tradition, laws of nature, literature, nebulae, neutrons, planets, protons, spectroscopy, stars, sunset, universe}

Intelligence Is Unnatural, and Why That Matters

_{Eric Hedin
June 30, 2023

Arts, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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One of the advantages we have in our study of nature is our ability to observe an entire “unpolluted” universe. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, evolution, fiction, humans, Lawrence Krauss, literature, mathematician, Melissa Cain Travis, physical reality, physicists, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Institute, scientists, Stephen Meyer, unguided processes}

“Would Mathematics Be Here if We Weren’t?”

_{Peter Biles
June 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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In December, physicist and author Lawrence Krauss interviewed the late American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13th at the age of 89. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 28, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, algebra, Arthur Conan Doyle, books, C.S. Lewis, fiction, geometry, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jurassic Park, Leo Tolstoy, literature, mathematician, meaning, Michael Crichton, New York Times, order}

Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design

_{Peter Biles
April 28, 2023

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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In an era where un-design is celebrated, a mathematician shows that structure and order are inherent in both literature and the universe. Read More ›

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Date
March 26, 2023

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, ID the Future, Jonathan Swift, literature, podcast, Reductionism, scientism, The Restoration of Man, theology}

Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

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March 26, 2023

Culture, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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These include the philosopher Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 28, 2022

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Batsell Barrett Baxter, Brave New World, business, C.S. Lewis, chemotherapy, freedom, grief, intelligent design, Jews, literature, love, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, music, pain, poetry, problem of pain, suffering, Utopia}

Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering

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November 28, 2022

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology

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After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Basil Willey, breeders, Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, faith, Gaia, George Levine, Janet Browne, literature, metaphor, Mother Nature, natural preservation, nature, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Robert J. Richards, Stephen Jay Gould}

Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

_{Neil Thomas
July 14, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›