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05Feb 2026 by Post

Are We Just Animals? A Tempting Delusion

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Some of my students argue that humans should be wiped off the face of the earth to make room for the other species. Source

26Nov 2025 by Post

So, Chimps Are Rational Now, Too? War on Human Exceptionalism Goes On

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The trouble many researchers go to in order to try to efface the stark reality of human exceptionalism is astonishing. Source

20Aug 2025 by Post

Smithsonian Denigrates by Race, Including the Human Race

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I have not yet heard that the Trump Administration is looking at what the NMNH says about human origins. But reforming the Smithsonian requites it. Source

18Aug 2025 by Post

Materialism Is Sounding Super Tired Lately

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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

15Jan 2024 by Post

“All Things Are Ordered to Their End”

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In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Source

04Aug 2023 by Post

Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness

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Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival? Source

24Aug 2021 by Post

Neil Thomas: Not at All THAT Sort of Person

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He is not at all THAT sort of person, the kind one might expect to find waging a campaign against modern evolutionary theory. Source

31Mar 2021 by Post

Meyer, Keating: Why Was the Object of Creation So Long in Coming? And Other Good Questions

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I listened in the car on my way to and from a funeral. Obviously, the end of life, like its beginning, is an occasion for pondering ultimate questions. Source

03Nov 2020 by Post

A Contest More Consequential than a U.S. Election? Yes! John Lennox Explains

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Lennox tells about discovering the damage an atheist worldview does. He saw it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe, and he saw what it does to rationality. Source

23Oct 2020 by Post

Against the Tide: Oxford’s John Lennox Describes Kinship with C. S. Lewis

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"I owe him an immense amount because although he wasn’t a scientist, he understood science. He understood the implications and the philosophy of science." Source

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