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Michael Egnor
mind denial
Photo: Professor Michael Egnor, Stony Brook University, in a scene from “Mind: The Inescapable I,” second episode of Science Uprising.

Science Uprising, Episode 2: Mind Denial

“We are robots made out of meat, which is what I’m going to try to convince you of today.” So says evolutionist Jerry Coyne. Read More ›
AI robot
delusion
Photo credit: Adam Muise via Unsplash.

Robert Marks: Materialism and the AI Delusion

Since humans are only the “result of purposeless, as-yet-unidentified physical phenomena,” machine are not in any way blocked from becoming what we are and much, much more. Read More ›
Jay Richards

Jay Richards: The Many Dilemmas of Materialism

When you go off to an elite college today, you’re expected to think about the most important questions as if it were true that only material things exist. Read More ›
health apps
materialist
Photo: A scene from Science Uprising Episode 1 — Reality: Real vs. Material.

Health-Tracking Apps Unmask a Materialist Myth

“To a materialist our subjective thoughts are not real. But our thoughts and beliefs have real consequences.” Read More ›
Gunter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.

Why a New Center on Teleology in Nature?

Clearly a naturalistic bias is at work here and imposes a limit on the spectrum of alternative explanations that is even considered to be permissible. Read More ›
Science Uprising
Fake Science

First Episode of Science Uprising Is Out: Fake Science and Toxic Materialism

What if the way the culture directs us to think about our own biological origins is based on a vast, highly influential myth? Read More ›
Homo erectus pekinensis
racism
Image: An artist imagines Homo erectus pekinensis, by Cicero Moraes [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

You think if Darwinian theory had emerged not in the dark age of the 19th century but in our own woke era, it would be different? No, it wouldn’t. Read More ›
Science Uprising
June

Science Uprising — An Edgy New Video Series, Coming June 3

The old have failed the young. Hate-driven shootings in schools and houses of worship, rising suicide and addiction rates — these are the most dramatic indications. Read More ›
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Egnor
Photo credit: ian dooley via Unsplash.

Dr. Egnor on Free Will and the “Alien Hand”

A reader asked whether this disproves the unity and freedom of the will. It appears that the patient wills two things simultaneously: getting dressed and getting undressed. Read More ›
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Screenshot from Ben Shapiro's interview with Stephen Meyer, via YouTube.

Ben Shapiro May Have Done the Best Interview with Stephen Meyer That I’ve Seen

He knows the common challenges to intelligent design and poses them very articulately, and he’s obviously absorbed Meyer’s books. Read More ›

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