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What (If Anything) Physics Can Say About Consciousness

What about objects? If we want to argue that they have consciousness too, we need to define the term differently from the experiential way we usually do. Read More ›
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Incompleteness Theorems Point to a Hidden Realm

A “hidden realm” behind the common-sense realm of “local realism” — this is the actual nature of the reality in which we live. Read More ›
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“Would Mathematics Be Here if We Weren’t?”

In December, physicist and author Lawrence Krauss interviewed the late American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13th at the age of 89. Read More ›
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“Anti-Hagiography”: A Critical Look at Stephen Hawking

Would he have achieved anything like the scientific renown and celebrity he did if he had been healthy, without the disability for which he was known? Read More ›
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Shall We Be Darwin’s Yes-Men?

Around 1970 Michael Denton was a young researcher at Kings College London, thinking about how mammalian red blood cells could become anucleate. Read More ›
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Bits and Bytes at the Bottom

A funny thing happened on the way to modern scientific materialism’s victory party. Read More ›
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What — Or Who? — Is the Singularity?

I had thought of the Singularity as an event, to which the universe — physical reality — traces back at the moment of the Big Bang. Read More ›
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Kepler Versus Religion as a Football

Evolutionists play a game, and it’s a shallow one. So what’s the truth about science, and religion, and how they do or do not fit together? Read More ›
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Insect Evolution: Another Illustration of How Darwinism “Explains Away”

Dr. Günter Bechly notes three contradictions at odds with Darwinian gradualism. Read More ›

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