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Researchers Find Memory Outside the Brain

It it is very difficult to look at the natural world seriously and not see a mind in there somewhere. Read More ›
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Photo: A planarian, by Pavel Kirillov from St.Petersburg, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›
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New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”

"Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose." Read More ›
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Film Festival 2023 — “How to Build a Worm”

Today we are screening a video hosted by Paul Nelson who describes the amazing process by which the worm is constructed and how it points toward ID. Read More ›
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Galápagos Pilgrim: Paul Nelson on Biological Design and History

Can modern intelligent design theory accommodate the fact that species evolve in historical time? Read More ›
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Phillip Johnson: A Fond Farewell

I have the unique distinction of having contributed in the same year to the Festschrifts of both Phil Johnson and Richard Dawkins. I feel a bit like a double agent. Read More ›
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Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery

French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.” Read More ›

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