2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (364+ words) For the 25th anniversary of 9/11 you may be wondering what to read or watch for the occasion. I have a few suggestions. The movie United 93 is a must, released just five years after the terrible day. If you haven’t read the…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (536+ words) A few years ago, an article I wrote about the intelligently designed properties of seeds focused on their multicellular complexity and potent reproducibility, far beyond the most advanced human biotechnology. To claim that researchers in synthetic biochemistry have no idea…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (356+ words) We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. While you are carefully putting away all your white clothing until next summer, take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Watch the video…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (704+ words) As fallout continues over NYU Press’s retraction of C. W. Howell’s Designer Science, it’s worth looking more closely at the media outlets and scholars who promoted the book so uncritically. Christianity Today (CT) and historian Edward Larson are prime examples....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (652+ words) You don’t have to spend much time skimming the voluminous philosophy of mind literature to come across the mind–body interaction problem. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains it thus: Originally, the problem of mental causation was that of understanding how…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (477+ words) Nature — the most prestigious science journal in the world — has editorialized in favor of requiring scientists to register with governments as a condition of participation in the sector. Here’s the context. South Africa has legislation pending that would require scientists…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (346+ words) To put the answer simply, no it’s not isolated at all, including in the context of very recent news stories. I commented on that at Townhall. From, “This American Academic Fabrication Story Has Nothing to Do With Race“: The tragic…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1035+ words) But no. According to Berkowitz, “Biological sex is as nuanced as gender.” He’s written a whole book about it. The thesis is in the title: The Binary Delusion: How Biology Defies the Myth of Two Sexes. As he explains in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (327+ words) Yes, let’s make Howell the victim here rather than Michael Behe, the person he defamed. That’s a classic tactic of deflection. Howell casts his error as a “mistake,” now thrown out. That is believable enough, though it’s also evidence of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (295+ words) Editor’s note: With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 coming up, the new Discovery Institute Press thriller, Oppenheimer’s Demon, is a tense and timely reminder to recall that terror-borne catastrophe. John Zmirak wrote a fantastic review of the book for Chronicles, kindly giving…...