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Truth and Trust in Large Language Models

How much truth is ChatGPT or Gemini giving us? How much can we trust their answers to queries? As we'll see, LLMs can lay no claim to truth. Read More ›
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Meet the Materialist Magicians

As our first case study, let’s look at Gary Nolan. Nolan is a distinguished immunologist at Stanford who believes that aliens are visiting Earth. Read More ›
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Photo: Orion Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, M. Robberto.

Aliens in the Garbage

Some people — whether they would put it in so many words or not — believe that certain types of answers are simply off-limits in a scientific inquiry. Read More ›
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Stifling Opposition Is the Real “Anti-Science”

In the Great Barrington Declaration, three noted epidemiologists questioned the wisdom of societal shutdowns and keeping children out of school. Read More ›
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Photo: Leafcutter ants, by Pjt56, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ants “Think” Differently from Humans

There are some 20 quadrillion ants living in the world today. All species of ants are social; there are no known solitary ants. Read More ›
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Darwinists Devolve

One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Read More ›
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Artificial General Intelligence: Machines vs. Organisms

It may seem that I’m picking too much on Ray Kurzweil. But he and I have been crossing paths for a long time. Read More ›
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Could Evolution Give Us Free Will?

From one corner we learn that free will could possibly exist, provided that it is materialized or, if you like “evolutionized.” Read More ›
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Evolutionist Jerry Coyne Has a Puzzling View on Hamas

The moral atrocity committed by Hamas seems not to have diminished Professor Coyne’s passion for atheism, determinism, and free will denial. Read More ›
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How Media Helped to Corrupt Science

Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Read More ›

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