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Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on his book. It's a lively and accessible chat about how the human mind is not simply the brain and can even survive death. Read More ›
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Group Founded by Francis Collins Launches PR Campaign for “Science”

If your research at Harvard costs $1 million to conduct, Harvard will get an extra payment of nearly $900,000 to sweeten the deal. Who wouldn’t want free money? Read More ›
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Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Read More ›
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China Leads the World in Retracted Science Papers

Seven of the Top Ten retraction hotspots are in China but India, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia also make an appearance. Read More ›
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New Book: Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

If you want to understand why many Christian colleges are now producing graduates with views indistinguishable from secular materialists, read my book. Read More ›
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With Yet More Politics and Ideology, Top Science Journal Labors to Sink Its Own Reputation

Now, in the mushiest softball Q&A one can imagine, they are boosting an anti-Israel protester. Read More ›
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Scholars Association Embraces Academic Boycotts: Intellectual Freedom Will Be the Victim

The intellectual boycott is an academic system’s usual defense against any ideas it can’t handle. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer and Justin Brierley on the Mainstreaming of Intelligent Design

Justin Brierley asked whether the “stigma” attached to ID had faded. Meyer smiled and answered very much in the affirmative. Read More ›
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Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Read More ›
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Thoughts of Goodness in an Evolutionary World

What you’d expect is humans more or less on the level of animals — not greatly exceeding them in evil, or greatly transcending them in good.  Read More ›

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