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Are Memories “Stored” in the Brain?

The answer has implications both for neuroscience and for our deeper understanding of the mind-body relationship. Read More ›
Dave Farina
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Watchdog Group Calls Professor Dave “Anti-Semite of the Week”; Plus an Appeal to the New Atheists

Does this have anything to do with intelligent design and the evolution debate? Yes, two things. Read More ›
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Image: A canary, Serinus canaria, by John Gerrard Keulemans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Anti-Hate Group, Canary Mission, Exposes “Science Educator” Professor Dave

The idea that Jews, alone among indigenous peoples, have no right to defend themselves on their land, is at once anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Read More ›
Sam Harris
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No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Read More ›
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Stepping in It: An Alternative to the Academic Wasteland

I walked out onto the sidewalk, enjoying the salty mist and the majestic Olympic Mountains. Then I looked down. Read More ›
Roger Penrose
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More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning

Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe. Read More ›
James Tour
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Watch It Now: Tour and Cronin at Harvard

Above all, major props to Lee Cronin for showing up at all. That took courage. He earns my admiration. Read More ›
Sam Harris
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On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

Rather than refute Harris by pointing out why his statement scores high on the irony meter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to do it for me. Read More ›
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Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge

What was unclear was whether his rage against intelligent design reflected just an isolated problem in his thinking, or whether it’s something more system-wide. Read More ›
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Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually? No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not

It turns out there are five separate qualities to life and its information that make this comforting rationalization impossible to uphold. Read More ›

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