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Photo: Pope Leo XIV, by Edgar Beltrán, The Pillar, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Zombie Metaphysics: Dawkins Versus Pope Leo

This casual devaluing of consciousness is actually intertwined with the rush to ascribe it to AI. The ultimate conclusion is the same. Read More ›
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Photo source: Dinesh D'Souza, via YouTube (screenshot).

Meyer, D’Souza: Is Knowledge of a Creator Innate?

A couple of friends made me laugh last week in telling about a Jewish class they took. Read More ›
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Photo: Taro leaf, by Avenue at Wikimedia Commons.

Green Creatures: The Intelligent Design of Plants

Emily Reeves notes the operation of photosystem II, “the only enzyme in nature that is known to be able to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen." Read More ›
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Photo credit: Pranav Tadepalli, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

What Is Lost with the Rise of AI

Thoreau wrote, "A person's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town." That's what we're losing. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Nathan Jacobson; photo of Jonathan Wells by Laszlo Bencze.

A Celebrated Life: Colleagues Remember Dr. Jonathan Wells

First to speak is Dr. John West, Managing Director of the CSC. Dr. West explains how Wells managed to be both brilliant AND understandable. Read More ›
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Photo: Francis Collins, by NIH Image Gallery, via Flickr.

Francis Collins’s “Road to Folly”

How does someone as inept as Francis Collins (and I’m being charitable) have the gall to tell anyone else how to become wise? Read More ›
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Leading Neuroscientist Wavers on Physical View of Consciousness

"Consciousness cannot be explained only within the framework of space and time and energy, but we need to postulate something additional — experience.” Read More ›
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Image credit: NASA.

As a Physics Professor, I Can Tell You: Wisdom Transcends Intelligent Design

The fine-tuning of the physical parameters, forces, and laws of nature could hardly have been established by a bottom-up approach. Read More ›
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Are Humans Progressing Toward Evolutionary Perfection?

Men are not about to become like gods. “I’m a strong believer in original sin,” quips David Berlinski. Read More ›
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Photo: Mount St. Helens, 1982, by Lyn Topinka, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask

Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event. Read More ›

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