01Apr 2024 by Post

Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm

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I’ve had two memorable encounters with Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, one with Dennett alone, the other with both together. Source
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12Nov 2023 by Post

Science Sunday: Is Scientific Materialism the Best Framework for Understanding Reality?

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The voices of pop science teach us and our children that "everything, if Darwin is right, is mechanical and blind and purposeless at the bottom." Source
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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
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12Feb 2023 by Post

Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Intelligent Design

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Given Lincoln’s acknowledgment of the evidence of design in nature, he would be banned from expressing his views on evolution in most public schools today. Source
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05Nov 2021 by Post

University of Chicago Biochemist: All Living Cells Are Cognitive

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James Shapiro’s recent paper points out, with examples, that bacteria meet the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of “cognitive.” Source
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02Apr 2021 by Post

As Church Membership Slumps Ominously, Time for a Return of the God Hypothesis

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"Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend." Source
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