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In Science — But Not Just in Science — Who Can Still Believe the “Elites”?

The comforting old assumption seems more hollow by the day. The “gathering revolt” has arrived. Read More ›
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Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

At first, this proposed killing license was supposed to be limited to patients on the verge of death or the permanently unconscious. Read More ›
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What Got My Attention about Intelligent Design

Bill Dembski pointed out that design detection, far from being an esoteric inference, lay in fact at the center of many normal human inquiries and activities. Read More ›
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Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth

Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Read More ›
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Science and Faith: Stephen Meyer on the Marc Bernier Show

At one point Bernier asks Meyer about the statement, “The heart cannot exalt what the mind rejects.” Read More ›
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The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology” Be Real Science?

Neurotheology is likely to become just another materialist fad in which the human rational and spiritual soul is reduced to evolved meat. Read More ›
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Noncoding “Junk” DNA Is Important for Limb Formation

Some defenders of evolutionary orthodoxy would have us believe that we’ve only found a handful of non-coding DNA sequences that have function. Read More ›
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Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? Read More ›
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Egnor: Disturbing Questions About Consciousness

Think about this next time you are put under general anesthesia, which I hope neither you nor I will be anytime soon. Read More ›
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Delaying Puberty, or Destroying It?

For children with gender dysphoria, blocking puberty is not just buying time. It is more like a point of no return. Read More ›

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