31Aug 2026 by Post

Grappling with Our Promethean Past … and Future

9/11, artificial inteligence, arts, Benjamin Franklin, bioethics, bombing, Chicago, Christianity, Chronicles, disaster preparedness, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, district attorney, Fiction, Geoffrey Simmons, George Whitefield, Hiroshima, Hollywood, Intelligent Design, John Zmirak, Just War, Manhattan Project, Michael Crichton, Michael Fassbender, morality, near-death experiences, nuclear physicists, nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer’s Demon, philosophy, physicians, Robert Oppenheimer, tactical nuclear weapons, Technology, The Odyssey, thrillers, World War II, Worldview
As with film, we’d also be wise to support works in other genres that skillfully depict fictional worlds infused with a truthful worldview. Source
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20Mar 2026 by Post

Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

Alexandria, artificial general intelligence, artificial superintelligence, arts, batteries, Brownshirts, Caltech, competition, Computational Sciences, Elliot Pryce, Engineering, ethics, experience machine, family, fans, Fiction, fidelity, general intelligence, governments, Gustav Mahler, human beings, humans, intelligences, language, light, machine life, Maine, marriage, Mars, metaphysics, Palo Alto, perpetual light, processors, quantum effects, retirement, Robert Nozick, robots, Science and Culture Today, self-preservation, superintelligence, Technology, The Battering Company, theorems, University of Texas
On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Source
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14Jan 2025 by Post

The End of the Machine Metaphor? 

"survival of the fittest", animals, bears, biology, Books, Casey Luskin, celibacy, chihuahua, DNA, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, Fiction, Foresight (book), foxes, genes, How Life Works, Intelligent Design, machines, Marcos Eberlin, Meaning, Oskar Schindler, otters, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, reproduction, Science and Faith in Dialogue, self-sacrifice, survival, work, writing
Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Source
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27Jun 2023 by Post

 “What Is a Man?” — New Book Out Today from Nancy Pearcey

animal nature, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, divine image, European customs, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, Fiction, human beings, males, masculinity, men, Nancy Pearcey, Sean McDowell, Tarzan, The Toxic War on Masculinity, women
Set aside one question of the moment — “What is a woman?” — and turn to another no less important problem that troubles our culture. Source
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28Apr 2023 by Post

Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design

algebra, Arthur Conan Doyle, Blood Meridian, Books, C.S. Lewis, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Cormac McCarthy, Culture & Ethics, Fiction, fractal structure, geometry, Herman Melville, Intelligent Design, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Joyce, Jurassic Park, Leo Tolstoy, literature, mathematicians, mathematics, Meaning, Michael Crichton, Moby-Dick, New York Times, Once Upon a Prime, order, Sarah Hart, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Stella Maris, The Passenger, The Road
In an era where un-design is celebrated, a mathematician shows that structure and order are inherent in both literature and the universe. Source
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26Jul 2021 by Post

Did Religion Evolve, or Was It Designed, to Foster Cooperation?

Aboriginal Australians, Agricultural Revolution, Catholics, Crusades, dead ends, designer, Faith & Science, Fiction, group cohesion, hospital, Human Origins, Jesus, myths, religion, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, selfish genes, shared beliefs, strangers, unguided evolution, Yuval Noah Harari
Harari’s assurance about building group cohesion is simplistic and woefully insufficient to account for common characteristics of religion. Source
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