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Saturday, March 14, 2020

The Best Prepared Candidate?

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In the following video segment Britain's Sky News reporter Rita Panahi raises questions about Joe Biden's fitness for the presidency...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Secrets of the Cell (Pt. V)

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Here's the fifth and final installment in the series of videos titled Secrets of the Cell featuring Lehigh University biochemist Michae...
Thursday, March 12, 2020

On the Nature of the Soul

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Usually when people talk about the soul and life beyond the death of the physical body they draw looks of incredulity and even scorn from fa...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Joe the Science Denier

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When I was an undergrad majoring in biology I worked for a couple of summers doing research with my faculty advisor which afforded us the op...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

A Case for Dualism

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Philosophical materialists maintain that the brain is all that's involved in our cognitive experience and that there's no need to po...
Monday, March 9, 2020

Katie's Soul

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My classes have begun discussing what philosophers call the mind/body problem, that is, the question whether the brain alone can provide an ...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

Secrets of the Cell (Pt. IV)

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We've been posting the videos in the series titled Secrets of the Cell featuring biochemist Michael Behe. In this the fourth installmen...
Friday, March 6, 2020

Denying That We're Conscious

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Philosopher Galen Strawson asks what the silliest claim ever made might be and concludes that the answer has to be the claim made by some ph...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Secrets of the Cell (Pt. III)

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Here's the third in biochemist Michael Behe's series of five minute videos titled Secrets of the Cell . In this episode Behe mention...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

How to Prepare for the Worst-Case Scenario

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If you're concerned about how to prepare in case the coronavirus turns out to warrant a national or regional lockdown, here are some mea...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Totalitarian Democracy

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In a speech last Wednesday (2/26/20) at the convention of the National Religious Broadcasters, Attorney General William Barr offered an ins...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Democrats' Dilemma

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I remember sitting in a high school faculty lounge in the spring of 1990 with a half dozen colleagues, including a foreign exchange teacher ...
Friday, February 28, 2020

What Exactly Is a Memory?

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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor raises an interesting question, one that many of us might never think to ask. What, exactly, is a memory? A seco...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Some Thoughts on Our Current Politics

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Here's a sampling of the thoughts that occurred to me as I read the news over the last couple of months: Democrats are loath to credit...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Emergentism

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One attempt to explain how an immaterial substance like mind could be produced by the purely physical substances that comprise the brain is ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Secrets of the Cell (Pt. II)

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In Part II of Michael Behe's series titled "Secrets of the Cell," the Lehigh University biochemist explains the concept of Irr...
Monday, February 24, 2020

The Political Spectrum

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The election season is once again heating up so to help readers understand some of the terminology that's being thrown around, I thought...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Secrets of the Cell

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Michael Behe is a biochemist at Lehigh University who has written several books in which he challenges Darwinian orthodoxy on the sufficienc...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Plato's Cave for Modern Man

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Imagine that the year is 2030 and computer technology has advanced to the point where a sufficiently clever programmer (you, for example) ca...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Another Media Hissy Fit

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The media is undergoing another of their weekly political hissy fits, this time over Attorney General William Barr's recommendation that...