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Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, by CEU / Daniel Vegel, via Flickr (cropped).

Harari: “Darwin Is the Prophet”

I’ve never heard evolution and nihilism connected so clearly and concisely, and the implications vastly exceed sexuality. Read More ›
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Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, by Alain Herzog, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Unalienable Rights, You Say? Why We Must Resist Yuval Harari’s “Scientific” Nihilism

History attests that when a culture does not draw a firm line protecting human life, it inevitably progresses to ending lives for all manner of reasons. Read More ›
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John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism

Meanwhile, the will to become gods — transhumanism in a nutshell — still beckons with its ancient glamour. Read More ›
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Engineer: Failing to See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry”

Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks’s book Non-Computable You, the story broke. Read More ›
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New Book from Computer Engineer Robert J. Marks: You Are NOT Computable

Just a few days ago a Google engineer revealed that an AI chatbot disclosed to him that it had “come to life” and has a “soul.” Read More ›
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Photo: Skull fragment, Homo erectus, by Commie cretan (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution

William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says. Read More ›
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Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, by CEU / Daniel Vegel, via Flickr (cropped).

Reviewing Sapiens — Back to the Guy Who Lost His Faith Over Harari

Podcaster Sam Davis told Justin Brierley that what did it for him was reading Yuval Noah Harari’s idea that “humanity is a weaver of stories.” Read More ›
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Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights

Yuval Noah Harari deconstructs the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence. Read More ›
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Reviewing Sapiens: Getting the Origin of Religion Backwards

The traditions of the Santal people entail an account of their own religious history that directly contradicts Harari’s evolutionary view. Read More ›
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Did Religion Evolve, or Was It Designed, to Foster Cooperation?

Harari’s assurance about building group cohesion is simplistic and woefully insufficient to account for common characteristics of religion. Read More ›

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