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Humans as “Beloved”: A Signature of Intelligent Design

A few minor shifts in how light interacts with matter and our sense of sight would be dulled to most of the visual beauty that we most appreciate in nature. Read More ›
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A Big Deal: In Wall Street Journal, Peter Robinson Welcomes Story of Everything

My colleague asked, “Has that happened before?” Not that I recall. Is something changing? Perhaps. Read More ›
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Contest of Cosmic Stories “Isn’t a Fair Fight”

As Bethel McGrew notes, the tradition of seeing the stars, planets, and the rest of space as pointing to a creator has a distinguished scientific history. Read More ›
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Good News: Young People Are Skeptical of AI — Even if Their Parents Aren’t

ChatGPT. Every student uses it to write papers. So goes the pervading fear, that is. Read More ›
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Jaime Escalante: Why a Heroic Teacher Matters to Intelligent Design

Anyone who has studied the history of IQ testing and eugenics will recognize the weaponization of low expectations against people deemed inferior. Read More ›
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As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Read More ›
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Edification vs. Enhancement — The Non-Transhumanist Vision of AI in Education

Edify your kids, don’t enhance them. We are organic beings, not gadgets to be improved with newer and better modules. Read More ›
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Look Who’s Talking About New Book on Science and God

When religion wanes, what replaces it is not the calm skies of noble atheism but the snakepit of increasingly unmoored private truth. Read More ›
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For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Read More ›
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From Charles Murray to Dan Brown, the Culture Is Maturing Toward the Immortal Mind

The existence of an immaterial reality, a soul, or a genome, is a concept that has been bubbling up, independently, across a range of minds. Read More ›

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