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Author
Peter Biles

Date
May 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, civilization, culture, film, humans, intelligence, knowledge, movies, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, pandemic, tyranny, universe, viruses}

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

_{Peter Biles
May 11, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 14, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Big Science, Elon Musk, entertainment, evolution, film, movies, Neuralink, New York City, parasite, Sam Altman, Spider-Man, transhumanism}

Science Gone Wrong, Thanks to a Hasty Transhumanist

_{Peter Biles
April 14, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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“40,000 years of evolution and we’ve barely even tapped the vastness of human potential." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chimpanzees, culture, David Barash, Denyse O'Leary, Disney, fiction, fungi, horror, human beings, humans, humanzee, materialism, movies, Museum of Natural History, mushrooms, music, nihilism, Periodic Table, Pinocchio, Seattle, soul, stars, supernova, University of Washington, Victor Davis Hanson, young people}

Humans and Fungi: In Wish, Disney Goes to War on Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
December 14, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Dismantling the discontinuity of humans with nature is the goal of a cheery, innocent-sounding Disney song. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 20, 2023

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Conservation of Information, death, Design Inference, education, father, Forensics, freedom, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, investigation, movies, murder, natural causes, pattern, podcast, relationships, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

A New Design Inference for a New Generation

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 20, 2023

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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Is there an empirical method to determine whether a system is the product of chance or design? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 18, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, After Death, Christianity, death, documentaries, faith and science, Hamlet, health, Heaven, life, love, materialists, medicine, movies, naturalism, near-death experiences, neurosurgeons, religion, suicide, theology, William Shakespeare}

After Death — A Riveting Glimpse of the Hereafter

_{David Klinghoffer
October 18, 2023

Faith & Science, Medicine

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There sure are a lot more things about reality than are captured by a narrow naturalistic view. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Anthony Fauci, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cancel culture, climate change, Cold War, Francis Collins, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Hiroshima, Ireland, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, movies, Nagasaki, National Institutes of Health, Soviet Union, Sunetra Gupta, United States}

For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 16, 2023

Bioethics, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom

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Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, body, girls, joy, men, movies, Public Discourse, transhumanism, women}

Barbie’s Subtle Critique of Transhumanism?

_{Peter Biles
August 8, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The transhumanists want to escape the body into a dreamlike utopia. It will be fully artificial and completely boring. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 22, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, authoritarianism, C.S. Lewis, Christmas, COVID-19, experts, government, Great Britain, Greta Thunberg, movies, pandemic, Republicans, Russia, scientists, secularism, The Abolition of Man}

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

_{John G. West
December 22, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Medicine, Science

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The Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 8, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, hearts, Mount Everest, mountains, movies, poetry}

Move Over, Keats? Here Is AI-Generated Poetry

_{William A. Dembski
December 8, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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This poetry is bad to the point of hilarity, much as some movies are so bad that they're "good." Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 17, 2022

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Cassini mission, Diamond Ring, earth, eclipse, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Jay Richards, JPL, movies, The Conversation, The Privileged Planet, timing, totality}

Fine-Timing as Evidence of Intelligent Design

_{David Coppedge
October 17, 2022

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Sometimes it’s not just the tuning that indicates design. Sometimes it’s the timing as well. Read More ›