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Photo: Asian elephant, by Yathin S Krishnappa, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly and the “Species Pair” Problem

Asian elephants (like the one at the top of this page) and their African counterparts apparently diverged about 8 million years ago. Read More ›
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Abandoned cabin in dark forest.
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Using the Logic of Surprise to Infer Cosmic Design

On a hike, you stumble upon a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods. When you walk in, you notice a steaming cup of tea sitting on the table. Read More ›
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The Story of Everything Dazzled Me: I Wasn’t Prepared

I’ve worked on successful documentary films, including a 2014 feature-length film that won multiple prizes; I’m not easily impressed. Read More ›
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Against Anti-LLM and Anti-AI Absolutism

Doug Smith has been a software developer for three decades. He writes extensively about the impact of technology on culture. Read More ›
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Photo: Skull of Homo habilis, by Gunnar Creutz, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Strongest Argument for Intelligent Design Is Also the Simplest

“Those are just the skulls,” I protested. “The outside of my 1980s PC looks pretty similar to the frame of my new HP computer." Read More ›
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A Mathematician’s Simple Yet Profound Arguments for Intelligent Design

We might think that mathematicians are focused on incredibly complex ideas and equations, far above the everyday thoughts of the rest of us. Read More ›
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Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail

In our experience, this type of specified information always comes from a mind, whether it’s hieroglyphics or the origin of a car. Read More ›
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Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious

To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Read More ›
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Image credit: Nathan Jacobson.

Additional Method of Analysis Confirms Human-Chimp Genomes Are About 15 Percent Different

This number is only looking at the non-sex chromosomes. When you look at the sex chromosomes, the differences seem to be even greater. Read More ›

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