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Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity

It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic. Read More ›
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Disassembling Lee Cronin’s Assembly Theory

When I read the Assembly Theory literature and studied the details of the theory, I was frankly shocked to see how devoid it is of substance and insight. 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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Conservation of Information — The Idea

Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef. Read More ›
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Can Self-Organization Theory Account for Consciousness?

One difficulty is that many humans produce a “self” with split brains, a brain missing key components, or half a brain. That’s not consistent with materialism. Read More ›
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Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How?

We’re going to need a new philosophy: one that can handle realities the Elizabethans and Victorians could never have imagined. Read More ›
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Sara Walker: Intelligent Design without Intelligent Design

We’ll be watching Walker’s publications to see how much farther she can move in the direction of ID. Read More ›
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Juggling Terms to Maintain the Illusion of Darwinian Selection

Evolutionists do not mind if selection goes forward, backward, up, down or sideways, as long as Darwin’s honor is maintained. Read More ›
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#10 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Jeffrey Epstein and the Silence of the Scientists

It is, I believe, a revelation about our scientific culture and particularly about the trust we should place in a “science consensus” that should shake us to our bones. Read More ›
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Jeffrey Epstein and the Silence of the Scientists

It is, I believe, a revelation about our scientific culture and particularly about the trust we should place in a “science consensus” that should shake us to our bones. Read More ›

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