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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Topic

Mind Matters

Gulf Stream
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David Klinghoffer
Date
May 9, 2020
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Faith & Science
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Marks, Bringsjord: Confound Your Atheist Friends with Gödel’s “God Theorem”

David Klinghoffer
May 9, 2020
Faith & Science
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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 ›
COVID19
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
April 28, 2020
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Physical Sciences
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Robert J. Marks: Coronavirus and the “Primacy of Information”

David Klinghoffer
April 28, 2020
Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Physical Sciences
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This is the kind of insight that halts you in your tracks: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.” Read More ›
Galen-and-Hippocrates
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Mike Keas
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March 25, 2020
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Medicine
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Medicine, Religion, and Cosmos — Was Andrew Cuomo Wrong to Invoke God?

Mike Keas
March 25, 2020
Medicine
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In a press conference yesterday about the coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used notably religious language. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
January 29, 2020
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Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Information as Matter’s “Fifth State” — A Physicist’s Contortion

David Klinghoffer
January 29, 2020
Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Dark matter is the unknown substance thought to make up some 27 percent of the universe. It can’t be observed but only theorized. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
January 22, 2020
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Biology
Ethics
Evolution
Medicine
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Scientific “Decadence” and the Myth of Objectivity

David Klinghoffer
January 22, 2020
Biology, Ethics, Evolution, Medicine
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Scientists aren’t like “everyone else”: because of the prestige they enjoy, the impact of their being “uncritical of things that [they] want to believe” is tremendous. It can be quite corrosive, quite malign. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
Date
July 25, 2019
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Neuroscience & Mind
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Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer” 

David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2019
Neuroscience & Mind
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Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms. Read More ›
Jay Richards
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David Klinghoffer
Date
July 16, 2019
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Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Jay Richards Responds to Michael Egnor on Cloning

David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2019
Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Cloning a human being is a terrifying prospect, from a moral perspective, and seems inevitable. Read More ›
Lawrence Krauss
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
July 10, 2019
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Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
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Three Things Materialists Can’t Do Without

David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2019
Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences
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Further requirements could be listed, including some even more horrific than cloning. Read More ›
clones
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
July 8, 2019
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Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
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Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind

David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2019
Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind
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A premise here is that abstract thought is a unique human endowment, so our colleague Wesley Smith will also find this of interest as a scientific test of human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
July 7, 2019
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Moreland, Witt: Not “All Body,” but Not “All Spirit” Either

David Klinghoffer
July 7, 2019
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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The materialist idea that you are “all body” — nothing but matter — is hardly more dangerous than the opposite idea, that you are “all spirit.” Read More ›

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