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flat earth

Pre-order Unbelievable Now at a 50 Percent Discount! See Michael Keas in Colorado This Week

Behind all the myths skewered in Dr. Keas’s book lies the idea of religion cast falsely as a retarding force on science. Read More ›
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J.P. Moreland: How Vapid Scientism Exacts Its Toll

“Science cannot function without the history and philosophy of science,” yet “scientists are not educated today to know that.” Read More ›
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For #GivingTuesday, Help Michael Behe Demonstrate that Darwin Devolves

In the first chapter, Behe the Darwin skeptic throws a curve ball. The neo-Darwinian mechanism did create the polar bear from the brown bear, he announces. Read More ›
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gene editing
Photo credit: Leyun Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences/Cell Press, via EurekAlert!

With Gene Editing, Scientists Perilously Push Borders of Biotechnology

Such manipulations, if ever done in humans, could a profound impact on human society going down the generations. Read More ›
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Golden Sunset Reflecting On A Breaking Ocean Wave
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Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment

A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete. Read More ›
Shaman

Scientist as Shaman — Seeing Through the Sham

Think, for example, of the late Stephen Hawking and how his fevered pronouncements in his final years were received. Read More ›
Evolution is a fact

Sociology Journal: Why Lobbyists So Persistently Call Evolution a “Fact”

The paper could cause a stir, since it has violated an “implicit agreement” that mainstream academics should never criticize public advocates of evolution. Read More ›
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Lab-Grown Lungs Transplanted into Pigs

The human organ shortage is one of the great bioethical dilemmas of our time. Expanding the organ supply is a matter of life and death. Read More ›
LSEA

West: Louisiana Science Education Act Is Important as a “Stereotype Breaker”

It was a turning point in the effort to secure academic freedom for science teachers. Read More ›

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