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Origin of Life Challenge: $10 Million, Just Lying Around

This is an obvious way to judge such theories. If someone claims to know how to make something, the natural response is, “Let’s see it, then.” Read More ›
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Artificial General Intelligence: Destroying the Idol

Even those doing the most to build and publicize the AGI idol do not wish it on their children. Read More ›
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Listen: Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley

“Nobody doubts that natural selection and random mutation is a biological process. What we doubt is that they can generate fundamentally new forms of life.” Read More ›
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Detecting Malicious Intent in Undisputed Design

Within clearly designed objects, malicious intents can lurk. Intelligent design theory handles those, too, and should. Read More ›
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“Poor Design”? Human Versus Biological Invention

Let’s compare the most ingenious technological inventions — from Silicon Valley, for example — with the inventions inscribed in carbon in “simple cells.” Read More ›
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C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism

I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case. Read More ›
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COSM Conference: A Bonfire for Tech Vanities

Peter Thiel assailed the “Atheist Church,” as he calls the universities, calling for outsiders to push for a reformation that the academic priesthood will never undertake on its own. Read More ›
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David Goldman on Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

Against the backdrop of materialist science’s failure, what accounts for the rise of modern determinist mythologies, led by astrology and transhumanism? Read More ›
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Gilder: AI and the Return of the Marxist Utopia

In this vision, thanks to AI, work is to become an obsolete concept as we all sit around on the beach collecting a monthly paycheck from the government. Read More ›

In a Weekend Doubleheader, Gilder Warns of Silicon Valley and the Planetary Zoo

Reducing the stature and dignity of human beings to that of animals is the whole project of Darwinism or materialism, whatever you want to call it, in a nutshell. Read More ›

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