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Shift from “Evidence-Based” to “Science-Based” Medicine Would Stifle Debate

Trust must be earned, not imposed. Information gatekeepers can be wrong. The danger of censorship in the name of “science” is growing. Read More ›
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For a Change, Science Writers Think Critically About Science

They can be quite interesting when they allow themselves to play around with ideas a bit. Read More ›
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Science Is Self-Correcting? Time for a Reality Check

In the wake of the Stanford scandal, the reasons why science often ISN’T self-correcting are attracting much more attention. Read More ›
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Ovid in His Exile

Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University was the scene of many strange experiments. Read More ›
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Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?

Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point. Read More ›
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We’re Seeing the First Wave of Applied Transhumanism

OK. Let’s get real. Most of the morphological transformations for which transhumanists yearn will almost surely never come to pass. Read More ›
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Ant Navigation Fascinates Engineers

Eric Cassell asks, “How did these complex programmed behaviors originate?” The question deserves a better answer than, “They evolved.” Read More ›
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Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers

When animals give back more than they take, does that fit the model of selfishness that Darwinism promotes? Read More ›
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Science as “Evidence for a Creator”? Meyer, Lennox, and Behe Discuss

Did scientists like Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton speak easily of God as the intelligence behind nature just because that’s how everyone spoke at the time? Read More ›
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Does God Exist? Stephen Meyer and “New New Atheists” in Discussion

As Meyer says, isn't there something “unstable” about being “pro-“ any faith that you don’t also affirm in objective terms, “that it really happened”? Read More ›

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