Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture

Can the Mind Be Explained by the Brain?

SETI and Fermi Paradox Are Nextdoor Neighbors of ID

What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND.

Knowledge Isn’t Opposed to Mystery; It’s a Path to Wonder

Learning about how a seahorse works might be one of the most spiritual things I can do.

What Makes a Mind? An Old Philosophical Question Becomes Urgent

Gaurav Suri and James McClelland state their case plainly. “Interactions between neurons are the engine of the mind,” they write.

ID-Based Engineering Dethrones Darwinism

For a layman’s report, see this overview by Dr. Casey Luskin and Dr. Brian Miller.

Back to the Future with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Lamarck believed that “all living beings are constantly transforming themselves” and thus life forms shape their own evolution.

AI Empowers Creativity and Creates Work

Work is not in limited supply. There is always and forever more to do. The Sabbath is a gift to rest from one’s work, because we are finite and the work is not.

But WHY Does Intelligent Design Predicts Ultimate Engineering?

A possible objection to Dr. Burgess’s case for ID might be that the apparent superb design of the human body is what you’d expect from evolution.

Constraints on Cell Size that Evolutions Can’t Explain

Cells reach a Goldilocks size for their needs. Evolutionists are at a loss to say how cells hit the sweet spot for smooth functioning.

“The Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Wilberforce Critiques Darwin

Wilberforce notes, among other things, Darwin’s error in arguing that natural selection operates the same way as artificial selection.

Little Green Men? A Test for the Design Inference

On August 6, 1967, a student named Jocelyn Bell (later Jocelyn Bell Burnell) discovered a strange radio signal coming from space.

How Small Became Beautiful: A History of Information Storage

For readers whose eyes may be glazing over with all these large exponentials for measuring DNA storage, let me offer an observation from Michael Denton.

Decline and Fall of Dawkins’s Meme Concept

The term eventually became a general handle for the manipulation and transmission of images on the internet.

Legal Liability for the AI Geniuses?

AI can become a serious social pest without rogue superagents or cyberDoomsday. Human stupidity could do all the heavy lifting.

Immanent Agency: It’s Evolution by Design, After All

Agency theory as proposed certainly is not “magic,” but it specifically invokes teleology within its operating framework.

Materialists Grapple with the Reality of Purpose in Organisms

Twentieth-century materialism treated living organisms as reducible machines governed strictly by Newtonian physics and simple genetic mechanics.

Biological Novelties “Arrive” as if Ordered from DoorDash

The question of how bodies are actually built remains as unclear at the end of these 54 minutes as it was at the beginning.

Say Goodbye to This Origin-of-Life “‘Get Out of Jail Free Card”

It’s good to be able to reflect that proponents of intelligent design have been saying things like this for years.

For Dawkins, a Second Sour Publishing Anniversary

Nathaniel Comfort stops just short of saying that Dawkins’s ideas should be pensioned off, along with himself.

For Students, Less Tech, Not More — Please!

This is a struggle going back to before anyone worried about AI. One of my worst decisions as a parent was to allow an XBOX into the house.

The Great Non-Debate and Atheism as “20-Year-Old Sushi”

If Richard Dawkins had answers to intelligent design’s evidence, he would have presented them, not least on his own home turf.