10Dec 2023 by Post

John Lennox: Against the Tide of Atheism

Against the Tide, atheists, Communism, Culture & Ethics, Eastern Europe, Faith & Science, faith and science, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian tradition, mathematicians, Oxford University, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, scientists, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, Worldview
Dr. Lennox talks about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Source
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09Dec 2023 by Post

Against the Tide: John Lennox and Stephen Meyer

academia, Against the Tide, Atheism, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, ID The Future, John Lennox, materialism, mathematicians, naturalism, New Atheism, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, scientific atheism, Stephen Meyer
Can one person push back against the strong currents of atheism, materialism, and naturalism so evident in academia and the public square today? Source
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22Nov 2023 by Post

C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism

C.S. Lewis, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, freedom, government, humans, ID The Future, intolerance, John West, lockdowns, moral relativism, natural world, physical science, planned society, Podcast, privacy, scientific progress, scientism, scientists, technocracy, Willing Slaves of the Welfare State
As an illustration, John West discusses the COVID pandemic and how that recent public health crisis revealed much of what Lewis warns against. Source
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15Nov 2023 by Post

Why Free Will Denial Is Self-Refuting

action potentials, Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, atheists, brain states, cellular metabolism, chance, Chemistry, Culture & Ethics, determinism, Evidence, fluid dynamics, free will, government, Jerry Coyne, John Clauser, John Stewart Bell, Justice, logic, Love, marriage, meat robot, molecules, morality, neurochemistry, neuroscience, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, relationships, spilled ink, truth
The only "scientific" basis for the denial of free will is determinism, the theory that every change in nature is determined prior to its occurrence. Source
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11Nov 2023 by Post

Company Names “Nature” to Board of Directors

Board of Directors, Brontie Ansell, Business Green, Culture, Culture & Ethics, ethics, fauna, flora, Frieda Gormley, geological features, House of Hackney, interior design, lawyers, Lawyers for Nature, Life Sciences, Mother Nature, nature rights, neo-nature religion, Pachamama, personhood, portfolio, private sector, radicalism, virtue signaling
Look what a frivolous culture we are becoming, with the private sector increasingly fueling our intellectual and moral decline. Source
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10Nov 2023 by Post

Must AI Inevitably Degenerate into Nonsense, through “Model Collapse”?

Artificial Intelligence, Arxiv.org, Baylor University, cats, ChatGPT, computer science, COSM 23, Creativity, Culture & Ethics, Denyse O'Leary, Dogs, gene pool, George Montañez, Harvey Mudd College, humans, inbreeding, jackrabbits, large language models, model collapse, Neuroscience & Mind, nonsense, Popular Mechanics, Pornography, recursion, Robert J. Marks, Walter Myers, William Dembski
AI works because humans are real creative beings, and AIs are built using gigantic amounts of diverse and creative datasets made by humans. Source
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08Nov 2023 by Post

Ray Kurzweil Predicts: The “Singularity” by 2045

Academy Award, AI enlightenment myth, Artificial Intelligence, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bible, computer scientists, COSM 2023, cultoftheai.com, Culture & Ethics, Discovery Institute, ethics, futurists, Google, Hamas, hellscape, Isaiah, Judeo-Christian tradition, kidnapping, killing, Michael Keas, morality, Neuroscience & Mind, Ray Kurzweil, Seattle, Singularity, Skynet, The Imitation Game, The Matrix, transhumanism, Turing test
Under Kurzweil’s transhumanist vision of the future, AI promises us superhuman capabilities complete with heaven on earth and eternal life Source
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04Nov 2023 by Post

To Throttle Human Thriving Is the Point of “Nature Rights”

Culture & Ethics, Environmentalism, Fox River, geological features, guppies, human enterprise, human thriving, Lake Michigan, Life Sciences, Menominee River, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee River, misanthropy, mosquitoes, nature rights, pollution, regulations, rights, waterways, weeds
Granting “rights” to nature — including geological features — profoundly undermines the concept of “rights” itself. Source
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02Nov 2023 by Post

Woke Watch: The Ideological Transformation of Medical Journals

alarmists, biodiversity, climate hysteria, Conference of the Parties, Culture & Ethics, Dubai, emergency declarations, equity, experts, global warming, Guns, health, health journals, ideology, medical journals, Medicine, natural world, periodicals, planetary health, public health, Racism, technocracy, United Arab Emirates, World Health Organization
Now, the political alarm is over "planetary health," which covers a lot of, er, ground. Source
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