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For MAHA’s Sake, Don’t Eliminate Animal Experimentation

Years ago, Dr. Edward Taub hypothesized that brain function could exhibit greater plasticity than it was believed at the time. Read More ›
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Berlinski: Life Shows a “Kind of Intelligence Evident Nowhere Else” in Nature

"There is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed." Read More ›
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Postcard from Warsaw: Are Christians Doomed to Evolution?

At our conference, we discussed the parallels between Communism and Darwinism. Perhaps the two are fated to meet the same end. Read More ›
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Evolution Evolved to Mirror the Zeitgeist

By the mid 1800s, the mental climate had shifted, and the time was ripe for a new Darwin to craft a new Darwinism. Read More ›
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Photo: Russian physicist and mathematician Alexander Friedmann, August 1, 1916. Friedmann was a decorated military aviator and aviation instructor before making a name for himself in cosmology as “the man who proved Einstein wrong.” He is rightly regarded as one of the fathers of the Big Bang. By unknown photographer, 1916, Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

A Scientific Revolution Comparable with Copernicus’

The location of his grave was quickly forgotten, since the Stalinist regime was hardly inclined to perpetuate the memory of this “creationist” scientist. Read More ›
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The Nazis and Their Transhumanist Delusion

A new series on Netflix shows what can happen when the delusions of transhumanism join forces with an appalling ideology. Read More ›
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Quorum Sensing: A Clever Trick by Microbes

Robot designers are learning tricks from bacteria: how to communicate with and respond to other unseen members of a swarm. Read More ›
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Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference

No wonder Alfred Russel Wallace called eugenics “the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft.” Read More ›
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David Berlinski on the Immaterial, Alan Turing, and the Mystery of Life Itself

If scientists thought that life's origin and nature would soon yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed. Read More ›
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An Argument from C. S. Lewis for Intelligent Design

According to Lewis, “universal evolutionism” has schooled us to think complicated functional things naturally arise from cruder and less complicated things. Read More ›

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