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A Method in the Madness of "Degeneracy
1+ week, 6+ day ago (406+ words) Basically, the codons affect their corresponding transfer-RNAs (t RNA) in different ways. Notice first how complex the transfer RNA system is: Once a t RNA molecule is manufactured, it is altered with'dozens of different chemical modifications.'These modifications are believed…...
The Flocking of Crowds: Secular U and Unstable Mass Conformism
3+ week, 15+ hour ago (713+ words) Author's note: This is Part Three of a series of conversations with J. Budziszewski, a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and author most recently of Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy....
Can Formless Matter Exist? A Pitfall in Reading Biblical Texts
3+ week, 5+ day ago (668+ words) Editor's note: We are delighted to offer this excerpt from Chapter 5 of Winston Ewert's new book, The Heavens, the Waters, and the Partridge: The Historical Interaction of Faith and Science Before Modern Science. Dr. Ewert is a Center for Science…...
Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (613+ words) Author's note: The following is a review of Fr. Michael Chaberek and Steve Greene, Creation or Evolution? A Catholic Dilemma(Lexington, KY: Inkwell Press, 2026). For instance, Ken Miller, the Brown University biologist, wrote Finding Darwin's God (1999), and John Haught, the…...
Watch: Catholics in Conversation on Intelligent Design
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (223+ words) Fr. Michael is doing what many a member of a faith community probably wishes his own clergyman could do, given the importance of the subject. Fr. Michael Chaberek, OP, has done a very fine thing with Catholic layman Steve Greene....
Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (486+ words) Editor's note: We are delighted to offer this excerpt from Chapter 2 of Winston Ewert's new book, The Heavens, the Waters, and the Partridge: The Historical Interaction of Faith and Science Before Modern Science. Dr. Ewert is a Center for Science…...
Science Before the Scientific Revolution: What Can We Learn?
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (337+ words) Science Before the Scientific Revolution: What Can We Learn from It? Science and Culture Today What can we learn about science and faith from those who lived before the rise of modern science? On a new episode of ID the…...
Conscious AI, You Say? Six Models of Consciousness
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (176+ words) Everybody talks about AI becoming conscious, but few ever define what consciousness is. Below is a brief synopsis of six different models of consciousness. The first four are totally based on naturalism and basically assume we are computers made of…...
A Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical "Carrollers
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (139+ words) Find the full series so far here." In my last post, I catalogued Carroll's main contentions against the fine-tuning argument, noted that he was going to be our stand-in for fine-tuning skeptics in general, and discussed why his objections (and…...
Does Quantum Mechanics Help Make Sense of the Soul?
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (629+ words) Michael Shermer: I have a lot of friends on the other side, so I'm thinking if I'm wrong, maybe I'll get in. Host Jay Richards (grinning): We'll see. Richards, author of The Human Advantage(2018), told the audience that he has…...