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14Nov 2025 by Post

Don’t Let Scientific Elites Settle the Question of Design in Nature for You

arguments, authority, bioscientists, cosmic fine-tuning, discoveries, Evidence, ID The Future, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, life, materialism, materialistic mindset, methodological naturalism, Michael Kent, natural constants, naturalism, origin of life, Podcast, scientific authorities, scientific reasoning, truth, unguided process, universe, Worldview

When it comes to science, many people don’t take the time to learn the evidence and arguments directly. Source

05Nov 2025 by Post

As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

brain, Charles Murray, cognitive psychologists, Coming Apart, Faith & Science, Jesse Bering, materialism, modernism, Nancy Pearcey, Neuroscience & Mind, post-modernism, Richard Dawkins, soul, Steven Pinker, Taking Religion Seriously, terminal lucidity, Threshold, verbal communication, Wall Street Journal

Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Source

02Nov 2025 by Post

When Science Degenerates into a Spoils System

Anna Krylov, Atheism, brains, cancel culture, censorship, Chemistry, Diversity, Heterodox STEM, humans, Inclusion, mammals, materialism, Nature (journal), Neuroscience & Mind, Popular Science, private truth, reproductive organs, Richard Dawkins, Scientific Freedom, sex binary, Steven Pinker

Chemistry professor Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail. Source

13Oct 2025 by Post

Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?

butterfly, Chelsea Flower Show, Christianity, cosmology, eliminative materialism, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, First Cause, France, garden of eden, God the Science the Evidence, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Hercule Poirot, Kathleen Stock, Liz Truss, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Olivier Bonnassies, philosophers, physics, Roman Catholic Church, Sunday Times, The Spiritual Brain, UnHerd, universes

Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book raises a stark question. Source

11Oct 2025 by Post

Materialism, Morality, and the Erosion of Objective Rights

attorneys, Barry Arrington, Casey Luskin, Colorado House of Representatives, creator, Declaration of Independence, ethics, Evidence, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, journalists, Legal Science (jurisprudence), materialism, media, rights, scientists, Unforgetting God

How is the job of a scientist similar to the job of an attorney? And how do you define evidence? Source

08Sep 2025 by Post

Science Without Materialism: Yes, It Would Still Work

assumptions, awake brain surgery, bank account, brain, chimpanzee genome, Chronicles Magazine, consciousness, human mind, Intelligent Design, John Zmirak, material reality, materialism, materialists, Meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, neuroscientists, neurosurgery, Philosophy of Science, Reductionism, Roman Catholics, science, The Immortal Mind, veridical

What if we assume that our minds really are immaterial? Math still adds up, physics and chemistry are still true, logic still works. Source

18Aug 2025 by Post

Materialism Is Sounding Super Tired Lately

"survival of the fittest", cattle, coyote, Evolution, existential problems, fairy tale, food, human life, human mind, Imperfection (book), irrationality, logic, luck, materialism, Nautilus, pop psychology, rationality, reproduction, scientific reasoning, Serendipity (book), Telmo Pievani, Templeton Foundation, threats, __featured3

This sort of cross between a fairy tale and pop psychology helps pop science readers pass the time while listening to the latest announcement of a flight delay. Source

15Aug 2025 by Post

Why Dogmatic Materialism Is Bad for Science

Arshak Alexanian, dauer-modifications, DNA, DNA sequence, dogma, epigenetic change, epigenetics, Evolution, genetics, Green Fluorescent Protein, heredity, Intelligent Design, Kamal Nahas, Lamarckism, materialism, methyl groups, mRNA transcripts, noncoding RNA, offspring, Richard C. Lewontin, The New York Review of Books

Richard Lewontin addressed a controversy in evolution: Can life forms acquire characteristics during their lifespan that they pass on to their offspring? Source

13Aug 2025 by Post

Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, Faith & Science, immaterial reality, Intelligent Design, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Philosophy of Science, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe

In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Source

21Jun 2025 by Post

From Materialist Biologists, a Profound Capitulation

"survival of the fittest", biology, cell's, Chance & Necessity, CRISPRs, Daniel Witt, Evolution “On Purpose”, Faith & Science, final causality, foxes, hares, integrons, Intelligent Design, internal regulatory control networks, James Shapiro, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, materialist paradigm, miracles, Modern Synthesis, molecules, mutations, neo-Darwinian evolution, organisms, organs, Peter Corning, Philosophy of Science, purpose, retroposons, science of purpose, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, transposons

I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework. Source

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