13Oct 2026 by Post

With Our Exceptional Place in Nature, Human Reason Is Much More than Machine “Reason”

Aeon, Arizona, artificial inteligence, computer scientists, COSM 2026, David Hume, Education, freedom, friendship, Hugging Face, human exceptionalism, Immanuel Kant, injustice, intelligence, large language models, machines, Neuroscience & Mind, optimisation, philosophers, philosophy, reality check, reason, Sasha Mudd, Scottsdale
Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” Source
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07Oct 2026 by Post

Canals on Mars: A Mistaken Design Inference

Alfred Russel Wallace, Are the Planets Inhabited?, astronomers, astronomy, canals, E. M. Antoniadi, E. Walter Maunder, earth, Giovanni Schiaparelli, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Is Mars Habitable?, Man’s Place in the Universe, Mariner 4, Mars, Mars (book), Mars and Its Canals, Mars as the Abode of Life, Martians, meteorites, optical illusions, Percival Lowell, Planetology, planets, universe
Any remaining doubts were settled by Mariner 4 which flew by Mars in 1965 and took pictures demonstrating that there were no canals. Source
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17Sep 2026 by Post

Toward Theism, but Cautiously: Reviewing Flew, Egnor, and O’Leary

Academic Questions, Anthony Flew, art, atheists, Big Bang, composers, Dan Asia, Denyse O'Leary, faith and science, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Michael Egnor, music, National Association of Scholars, Neuroscience & Mind, North Texas State University, philosophy, religion, settled science, soul, The Immortal Mind, theism, There Is a God, universe, University of North Texas
"As with the Big Bang before its widespread acceptance, we may find ourselves increasingly compelled to take such possibilities seriously — even if cautiously." Source
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29Aug 2026 by Post

Our Lush World: Considering the Problem of Beauty

"survival of the fittest", beauty, Darwinists, Fire-Maker, geneticists, Giraffe, gratuitous beauty, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligence, intelligent beings, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, nature, problem of pain, scientific discovery, Technology, The American Spectator, The Edge of Evolution, The Story of Everything, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, zoology
“If, on the other hand, one views nature as ingenious artwork that cannot be reduced to the question of utility alone, these problems disappear.” Source
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29Jul 2026 by Post

New Peer-Reviewed Paper Provides a How-To Manual for Using ID to Guide Research

biology, biomechanics, Biomimetics, Brian Miller, constraints, Emily Reeves, expectations, function, functional information, genetics, Genetics (journal), George Montañez, intelligence, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan McLatchie, Junk DNA, Michael Behe, neurophysiology, peer-reviewed literature, predictions, protein science, purpose, Research, Robert J. Marks, scientific reasoning, scientific theory, scientists, Stuart Burgess, systematics, Systems Biology, William Dembksi, Winston Ewert
The paper explains what the theory of intelligent design is and how it can be used to generate testable scientific predictions, or “expectations.” Source
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24Jul 2026 by Post

Get Smart: Neanderthals Progress from Brute to Beaut

archeology, brain development, burial sites, cave walls, childhood development, cognitive functioning, Culture, DNA, Evolution, fossils, Friedrich Alexander University, genes, genetics, genome, human mind, Human Origins, Human Origins and Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington, intelligence, Kyoto University, language, modern humans, Neanderthals, Nurnberg, paleontology, researchers, Scientific American, Tom Schoenemann
We must be ready to ask some questions about many of the evolution stories we have taken for granted. Source
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10Jul 2026 by Post

On Minds and Machines, Richard Dawkins’s Curious Inconsistency

artificial inteligence, atheists, biology, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, Computational Sciences, computing, consciousness, intelligence, Intelligent Design, large language models, living systems, personal identity, philosophy, plagiarists, Richard Dawkins, Technology, UnHerd
If we encounter far more advanced informational technology in living organisms, isn’t the same intuition at least worth considering? Source
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07Jul 2026 by Post

Biological Codes, and More: Evolutionists Scramble for an Adequate Cause

acetylation, atheists, biological codes, biology, Cambridge University, DNA, DNA tag maps, evolutionists, genetics, George Church, Harvard University, histone tag maps, histones, human cell, Human Genome Project, intelligence, Intelligent Design, iPhone, Life Sciences, materialism, methylation, Michael Behe, Mind and Cosmos, Nanoarchaeum equitans, Oxford University Press, Peter Lipton, phosphorylation, Robert Prinz, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, supercomputer, Thomas Nagel, uniformitarianism, William Dembski
Much of the information essential to cellular function isn’t editable via random genetic mutations in DNA and is thus inaccessible to the Darwinian mechanism. Source
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04Jun 2026 by Post

A Dose of Engineering Realism Over AI Hype

artificial general intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, autonomy, Computational Sciences, computer science, computer scientists, Discovery Institute, Donald C. Wunsch, Engineering, engineering realism, engineers, hype, IEEE, information, intelligence, Intelligent Design, inventors, Mind Matters News, neurosurgeons, Robert J. Marks, society, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Donald C. Wunsch has spent decades working at the intersection of engineering, AI, and real-world systems. Source
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