2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (573+ words) You’ve heard that AI could kill us all. Yes, so could old age. At Fast Company, we learn that “Bill Gates has a dire warning about AI,” publicized at the Telluride Film Festival. He prophesied “mass unemployment and major social,…...

5+ day, 7+ 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…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (309+ words) Duke University has pledged to remove public access to C. W. Howell’s dissertation pending an investigation, as the repercussions of Howe’s use of a fabricated quote to attack biochemist Michael Behe continue to grow. As reported here already, New York University Press…...

1+ week, 6+ 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…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (815+ words) As we’ll see below, the book’s supposedly linchpin argument against ID as science was based on a fake quote. Fake, as in the person quoted (biochemist Michael Behe) never said it. Fake, as in the purported quote attributes to Behe…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (815+ words) As we’ll see below, the book’s supposedly linchpin argument against ID as science was based on a fake quote. Fake, as in the person quoted (biochemist Michael Behe) never said it. Fake, as in the purported quote attributes to Behe…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (366+ words) In an article yesterday in a developing series, I began to engage with YouTuber Dave Farina’s low-quality response to me from a few years ago, lamenting Farina’s failure to acknowledge substantive mistakes on his part in his previous video. Here,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (751+ words) Failing to acknowledge mistakes when they are pointed out to you is one of the surest signs of “soldier mindset.” Source Three years ago, I published a series of four articles (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) engaging with Dave Farina who…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (341+ words) SpudCell is the supposed artificial cell that left CNN, among others, hyperventilating: “Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.” Have you ever noticed that…...