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08May 2023 by Post

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

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Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Source

02Mar 2023 by Post

Is Human Psychology Better Explained by Evolution or Design?

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“We are survival machines,” wrote atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, “robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” Source

22Feb 2023 by Post

Chimp and Human Genomes: An Evolution Myth Unravels

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Casey Luskin rebuts the oft-repeated claim that the human and chimp genomes are 98-99 percent similar as surely resulted from Darwinian common descent. Source

01Feb 2023 by Post

By Design: Storytelling Reveals Human Exceptionalism

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That humans enjoy being made to wait seems to have been deliberately built into us. It’s unique in nature, an intelligent design. Source

23Jan 2023 by Post

New Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital

Anthony Schmidt, Arno Penzias, Arthur Holly Compton, Bible, biology, Buzz Aldrin, Cambridge University, Catholic priest, Charles Townes, communion, cosmology, Culture, Deborah Haarsma, DNA, Evolution, Faith & Science, Fred Hoyle, Georges Lemaître, Guillermo Gonzalez, humans, Intelligent Design, James Gordon, Jeffrey Williams, Johannes Kepler, John Ray, Leslie Wickman, Melissa Cain Travis, Museum of the Bible, Nancy Pearcey, Nicholas Copernicus, Nobel Prize, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Ota Benga, Pentateuch, Physics, Earth & Space, Psalms, Robert Jastrow, Science and Scripture, Signature in the Cell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Meyer, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation, Thinking God’s Thoughts, Total Truth

Tracing the development of science over two millennia, the exhibition challenges a popular misconception about the relationship between the Bible and science. Source

11Jan 2023 by Post

Monkeys, Not Humans, Likely Made Ancient Brazilian Tools

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The stone objects, dated from 50,000 years ago, look like the ones made by capuchin monkeys today. Source

10Jan 2023 by Post

Possible Cave “Proto-Writing” Challenges Slow Evolution of Human Consciousness

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London-based wood carving conservator Ben Bacon has, with academic colleagues, shaken up Ice Age paleontology. Source

06Jan 2023 by Post

Can Animals Be Held Criminally Responsible?

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While the idea is handled provocatively in philosophy literature, in practice, animals are envisioned as plaintiffs, not defendants, in animal rights cases. Source

16Dec 2022 by Post