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03.07.2025
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From bacterium to brontosaur, stability in a dynamic environment requires an astonishing array of systems for sensing, signaling, and responding to change.
It might be smart to ask people who work with animals to interpret some of this first.
Mine is among the less weighty problems facing AI ethics, a subject I was glad to see Dr. Marks addressing.
02.07.2025
Actually, a paradigm shift is already underway. Traditional Darwinism faces challenges on a number of fronts within biology studies.
Because we don’t tend to think of fish as being very smart, we don’t think they could have memories that matter.
According to secularist legend, the Scopes trial represented a great showdown between ignorant, fundamentalist religion and enlightened, scientific progress.
01.07.2025
Evolution defenders generally accept the new evidence showing that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different but downplay the new number.
At best, Christian commitment without a reasonable basis is only shifting sand under believers’ feet. At worst, it invites disdain.
30.06.2025
Elon Musk told Jordan Peterson that he is a cultural Christian in an interview broadcast on X last July.
29.06.2025
This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to.
28.06.2025
How does an intelligent agent go from idea to artifact? What can the process of art teach us about the evidence of design in the natural world?
The more physicists know about the universe, the larger loom some questions about ultimate realities.
On a new podcast, Dr. Luskin explains the science that refutes the myth about humans and chimpanzees being separated by a genetic distance of just 1 percent.
27.06.2025
Here are two highlights that give some sense of the scope and tenor of the debate.
As Dr. Egnor contends, near-death experiences offer modern, experiential evidence that the human mind is not confined to the skull.
One of the common yet unexpected reactions from critics to the discovery that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different is to change the topic.
26.06.2025
The nasty racial implications of Darwin’s theory should not just be tastefully ignored.
When a belief conflicts with common sense present-day reality, it is usually upholding an irrational value.
We have good reasons to believe that these differences are reliable and real and even represent functional, meaningful DNA.
25.06.2025
Artistic license has been used to promote Darwinian evolution since the late 19th century.
J. B. S. Haldane initially subscribed to some of the racism of the era — but, to his credit, his views shifted over time as more evidence came to light.
24.06.2025
What’s most ironic here is that these critics aren’t disputing that the evidence really does show that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different.
Of course, if they followed river systems, they were assured of sources of food and water along the way.
23.06.2025
Pressed by the Trump Administration, the Smithsonian has ordered a review of its museums for what Trump calls “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology.”
22.06.2025
Peter Robinson sits down with Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Stephen Meyer, three leading voices in science on the case for an intelligent designer.
21.06.2025
I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework.
To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real.
Charles Darwin formulated his theory at a time when it was commonly assumed that different races of humans had different natural levels of intelligence.
20.06.2025
The insinuation is that something went wrong in the lab during the attempted alignment process.
I spoke with physicist Dr. Brian Miller about the fruitful research that can result when engineering principles are applied to the study of biological systems.
“For, that there are men with tails,” wrote Lord Monboddo, “…is a fact so well attested that I think it cannot be doubted.”
19.06.2025
Before we dive into what critics are saying, I want to note that good authorities have come to similar numerical conclusions as I did.
With Darwin’s disciples preaching at him adamantly in the culture, Jeff felt no accountability to a seemingly hands-off God, if one existed at all.
The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in a recent speech at Oxford University that nature rights are equivalent to human rights.
The only type of explanation that adequately accounts for this type of phenomenon is a goal-directed, or intelligent, cause.
18.06.2025
Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail.
The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t.
Is the soul a myth? Does your mind really just boil down to brain function? I spoke with Denyse O’Leary about surprising findings out of neuroscience.
17.06.2025
In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard.