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Photo: The perfect solar eclipse of 1919, by ESO/Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl/F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, & C. Davidson, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›
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Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›
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Weaponizing Science: Accused Trump Gunman Cited “Natural Selection”

The ethos that would most logically come from recognizing the design in life, every life, is the very opposite of what you'd expect from Darwinism. Read More ›
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My Dinner with Steven and Louise Weinberg

Weinberg was holding court, going on about how much he knew about the origin of the universe and how atheism was the only intellectually viable option. Read More ›
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Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›
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Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Read More ›
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Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›
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Defining Science, and Discussing Stephen Meyer’s God Hypothesis, on Twitter

"God is a hypothesis. What Dr. Meyer does is evaluate that hypothesis against the latest scientific evidence of the last century." Read More ›
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Meyer, Shermer, Callen: “Can Science Find God?”

A key moment is when host Bryan Callen asks the classic “Who designed the designer?” question. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs

With increasing knowledge of the fossil record, the mainstream narrative is rendered more and more untenable and inconsistent with the empirical evidence. Read More ›

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