23Dec 2025 by Post

No. 10 Story for 2025: Wikipedia Co-Founder on Arguments for God

"God of the gaps", Albert Einstein, argument from ignorance, benevolence, Big Bang, Christianity, Complexity, constants, David Hume, designer, faith, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, logos, matter, natural laws, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, universe, william lane craig
I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, who presented versions of the cosmological argument and the fine-tuning argument. Source
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19Nov 2025 by Post

Calm Down, the Universe as a Simulation Is Mathematically Impossible

Computational Sciences, eliminative materialism, Ideas, information, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Kurt Gödel, Lawrence Krauss, logical positivism, materialist atheism, Michelle Starr, Okanagan, philosophers, physics, Plato, Platonic forms, Skynet, Terminator, universe, University of British Columbia
The idea that information underlies the universe is compatible with the very intelligent design theory that Lawrence Krauss has opposed in the past. Source
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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
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16Apr 2025 by Post

Depraved: New York Times Pushes Assisted Suicide for the Elderly

bioethics, Culture, Daniel Kahneman, disabilities, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, family, friendship, geriatric suicide, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Medicine, mentally ill, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Peter Singer, philosophers, philosophy, Princeton University, suicide, Switzerland, The Atlantic
The victims of such a nihilistic mindset will be the elderly, people with disabilities, the mentally ill, and the seriously sick in an ever-widening swath. Source
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18Mar 2025 by Post

Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity

application, birds, bobcats, butterflies, capsids, Colorado Springs deadline, deer, Education, Evolution, fermions, fossils, garter snakes, Glen Eyrie Castle, Intelligent Design, mice, molecules, nature, philosophers, qualia, Quanta, science, scientists, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers
The setting, once again Glen Eyrie Castle in Colorado Springs, is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines against the bluest of skies. Source
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14Mar 2025 by Post

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

Artificial Intelligence, babies, bioethics, computer software, Endangered Species Act, fish, gestating human babies, human exceptionalism, image of God, insects, invertebrates, Jeff Sebo, life, Life Sciences, mammals, microbes, moral agents, moral patients, moral responsibility, NYU, philosophers, plants, The Moral Circle, universe
Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Source
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11Mar 2025 by Post

Revenge of the Turtle Lady 

Big Bang, biologists, causes, conscious experience, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, explanations, free will, gravity, infinite chain, infinite regress, Intelligent Design, movement, Neuroscience & Mind, neuroscientists, Peter Corning, philosophers, physical universe, physicists, promissory note, quantum mechanics, Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, turtles, universe
You’ve probably heard the story about the old lady who tells a Famous Professor that the world is actually sitting on the back of giant turtle.  Source
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03Nov 2024 by Post

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

animals, bioethicists, brains, Culture & Ethics, doctors, experts, human life, humanized animals, humans, International Society for Stem Cell Research, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Medicine, mental capacities, neural function, organoids, personalized animals, personhood theory, philosophers, pig, rats, Research, Sergiu Paşca, speciesism, unborn humans
Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Source
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