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07Oct 2025 by Post

French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen

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Computer engineer Michel-Yves Bolloré, a lifelong Catholic, and Olivier Bonnassies, who came late to faith, argue that the universe must have had a creator. Source

28Feb 2025 by Post

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Source

21Feb 2025 by Post

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

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A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Source

06Oct 2024 by Post

RNA as Cells’ “Text Messaging” System

Amy Buck, Annie Melchor, cell's, co-operation, Daniel Dennett, DNA, Hadi Valadi, Intelligent Design, language, Life Sciences, natural selection, panpsychism, ribonucleic acid, RNA, text messaging, thymine, University of Gothenburg, uracil, warfare, William Dembski

Some researchers wonder if RNA can be understood as a common language that can be read among cells of widely different life forms. Source

30Sep 2024 by Post

Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled

Antony Flew, Anxiety, atheists, biology, Christopher Hitchens, Culture & Ethics, Daniel Dennett, depression, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Huffington Post, Professor Dave, religious believers, Richard Dawkins, Ross Andersen, Sam Harris, suicide, The Atlantic, There Is a God

It didn’t help that Hitchens and Dennett are deceased. But what’s significant is that they were not replaced. Source

22Sep 2024 by Post

Decade-Long Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Darwinian Evolution

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After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Source

02Sep 2024 by Post

Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

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It has, Douglas Youvan suggests, a dual nature, interacting with both matter and consciousness. Source

30Jun 2024 by Post

Bees with Feelings? A Darwinist Winces

animal consciousness, animals, Chemistry, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Evolution, Feelings, flight distance, human consciousness, insects, Jerry Coyne, Lars Chittka, natural selection, naturalism, Neuroscience & Mind, panpsychism, Princeton University Press, protozoans, qualia, Queen Mary University, Scientific American, sentience, The Mind of a Bee, Tufts University

Most naturalist philosophers of mind have held that human consciousness — maddeningly mysterious — is an illusion. Source

05May 2024 by Post

Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?

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Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense. Source

19Apr 2024 by Post

Farewell to Daniel Dennett

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Dennett noted that Paul Nelson and I were in the audience and would be speaking at Tufts that evening on intelligent design. Source

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