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As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Read More ›
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Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism

As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started. Read More ›
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Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy 

I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›
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Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Read More ›
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Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out. Read More ›
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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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For Christmas, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe

Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›
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For Advent, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe 

Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›
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New Study Supports Michael Denton’s Structuralist View

The way an embryo develops shows a method of patterning that makes use of physical processes as if they conform to a predetermined plan. Read More ›
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Redness Reconsidered: Materialism, Universals, and Abstract Objects of Thought

The question about the material/immaterial nature of abstract thought is crucial to the debate over the plausibility of materialism. Read More ›

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