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Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset: Lessons from Julia Galef

The soldier mindset, also known as motivated reasoning, leads us to defend the stronghold of our belief commitments against intellectual threats, come what may. Read More ›
Lewis Bergson

Only Religionists Doubt Darwin? The Case of C.S. Lewis

If this were true, it would cast suspicion on the skeptics who, so goes this line of insinuation, are motivated by their passion to believe. Read More ›

The Rowe-Grayling Debate

Grayling's problem is not merely his frank incompetence in open debate (you can understand his penchant for censorship). Read More ›

Foundational Question: Is Intelligent Design Science?

It's long been said that the path to the right answers lies in asking the right questions. Read More ›

Richard Lenski and Citrate Hype — Now Deflated

For more than 25 years, Lenski's lab has grown a dozen lines of the bacterium E. coli in small culture flasks. Read More ›

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