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The Story, and the Meaning, of Everything

The “nerve of the thing” — telling this story based on scientific evidence — would have barely raised an eyebrow among the founders of science. Read More ›
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Motivated Irrationality: Why Even Smart People Swallow Crackpot Ideas

A critic will just fling out an objection, intelligent design thinkers will reply, and the reply is totally ignored. Read More ›
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Capture the essence of collective consciousness through digital connectivity by visualizing it in a dynamic and visually striking manner from a worms-eye view Create a design that symbolizes
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Conscious AI, You Say? Here Are Six Models of Consciousness

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a mathematically founded emergence model. Michael Egnor and I recently published a paper critiquing IIT. Read More ›
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Foundational Evidence for Design: The Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics

For almost the last 40 years, I have understood the truth of Gange's statement based on its foundation in well-established laws of physics. Read More ›
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What the Forces of Nature Can Do — And What They Can’t

Our universe not only has limited physical resources, but also informational limits, and the only way to overcome these is by intelligent design. Read More ›
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A Mathematician’s Simple Yet Profound Arguments for Intelligent Design

We might think that mathematicians are focused on incredibly complex ideas and equations, far above the everyday thoughts of the rest of us. Read More ›
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COSM, Entanglement, and Implications for Materialism

If these points don’t reveal evidence of intelligent design in nature, what does?  Read More ›
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The Forces that Shape our Universe: Gravity

One of the most remarkable aspects of our universe is the discovery that just four fundamental forces of nature govern interactions among all particles. Read More ›
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COSM 2025 Will Feature Nobel Laureate Physicist and Skeptic John F. Clauser

Discovery Institute’s upcoming COSM 2025 tech conference will feature something a little different. Read More ›
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Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious

To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real. Read More ›

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