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Tortured, Contradictory: The Legacy of James Watson

A noxious atheist, Watson unwittingly pointed the way toward scientific evidence of a creator
A noxious racist, citing supposed genetic evidence of African racial inferiority, Watson’s work with DNA suggests that human beings can’t in fact be reduced to “genes.” Read More ›
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A child holding a tablet with a chatbot interface on the screen, showing colorful icons and a cheerful robot character.

Kids and Chatbots: How Dissenting Views Got Me Disinvited

As a lifelong software engineer, I am an insider on a topic like this and I know that their programming makes them unsuitable for children
I also believe that their programmed tendency to lead to addictive relationships makes them unsuitable for adults as well but that’s another topic. Read More ›
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A futuristic eco-city with verdant vegetation and a glowing green energy source situated atop a giant computer chip in a detailed urban landscape vision.

Should Christians Harness AI Chatbots As a Force For Good? Part 2

The claims being made for what these bots can do for ministry would lead us into dangerous territory
We need to remember what Christian thinkers like C.S. Lewis and Marshall McLuhan have thought and said about technology-driven utopias. Read More ›
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Pure Unlimited Love: Faith, Freedom, and the Path to Peace

To illustrate the nature of the qualities needed, Dr. Post shared with Dr. Egnor a moving story from his time working in a geriatric psychiatric hospital in Mount Vernon, Ohio
Dr. Egnor agreed, observing that the United States seems to be losing its ability to hold respectful disagreement. Post responded by quoting Abraham Lincoln’s call for unity Read More ›
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Maturing Toward God: An Update from Charles Murray

It’s significant that the rethinking, in this and other cases, was prompted by evidence from science
Klinghoffer notes that the question, “Why there is something rather than nothing?” is also addressed in the new video, “Proof of God in 3 Minutes.” Read More ›
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Portrait of smiling multinational people different religions stand together. National Religious Freedom Day. January 16. Holiday concept. Template for background, banner, card, poster and wallpaper

At Psych Mag: How Your Brain Allegedly Invented God…

Not THIS again, you say? Yes, this again. Straight out of the 1970s, as if the last fifty years of research never happened
One effect of the presumption of atheism in science is that all kinds of speculation can be grandfathered as reasonable scientific thinking. Read More ›
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Change: Charles Murray Finds Out That He Does Need God

This growing interest in religion is a trend. It is all coming too close together to just be an accident of timing.
Surprised? Joel Kotkin points out that the conventional picture many people have of the religious vs. the non-religious population is gravely distorted. Read More ›
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On Atheism’s Watch, Rationality in Science Flew Out the Window

Why did atheists, in charge of science during the last few decades, yield the floor to irrational forces?
Science itself is being deplatformed by Woke relativism, developed by the very people who found atheists quite thought-provoking and fashionable. Read More ›
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Reviewer Asks: Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?

Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book, God, the Science, the Evidence, raises a stark question
Why are we asked to discredit the evidence of fine-tuning of the universe? Why is such an antirealist message coming from science? Read More ›
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French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen

But, as materialism wanes and religion slowly revives, will many scientists find panpsychism more attractive?
Something has changed if the magic word “Evolution!” cannot be used to paper over vast improbabilities and silence dissenters in the way that it has for over a century. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor: Atheism as a “Foreign Influence” on Science

On the Ex-Skeptic show, the neurosurgeon — an ex-skeptic himself — discusses his journey with Jana Harmon, who studies atheists who came to believe in God
Suggesting a trend, a new book which aims to dethrone materialism in science, has been selling well in Europe and coming out shortly in English. Read More ›
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John Harvard Statue in Harvard Square, Cambridge

Unscientific ‘Nature Rights’ Mysticism Pushed at Harvard

Harvard Kennedy School hosted a symposium on “nature rights” undergirded by “indigenous knowledge” as part of the 2025 Harvard Climate Action Week
What “reciprocal duties” do waterways have toward us?  Rivers are not alive. Waters are not our “living relatives.” They are geological features. Read More ›
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News Roundup: This Certainly Looks Like a Religious Revival…

The Barna Report says that, for the first time in decades, younger adult s— Gen Z and Millennials — are now the most regular churchgoers. There have been a number of unexpected conversions to Christianity in recent years
The growth in interest in the Bible is significant because studying the Bible is work and its message is about costly commitment. Read More ›
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A conceptual artwork showcasing a robot in prayer, symbolizing faith, spirituality, and worship in a dark room with fire in the background.

Unexpected: ChatGPT and the Return of God

Scott Ventureyra talks about ChatGPT and other large language models (chatbots )AI in the unlikely role of unexpected apologists for Christianity
Far from heralding a coming secular triumph over God, the verbal output of chatbots suggests that, generally, people conclude that God must in fact exist. Read More ›
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Dawkins Watches as Science Skeeters Off a Cliff, Learns Nothing

The decline is mainly due to the loss of traditional insights gained in large part from religion
It is becoming clear that if we lose our religion, we will lose our science as well. Read More ›
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Portrait of smiling multinational people different religions stand together. National Religious Freedom Day. January 16. Holiday concept. Template for background, banner, card, poster and wallpaper

Religious Involvement Generally Predicts Better Mental Health

The signal that rises above the research noise is mostly positive. The question, in most cases, is what it points to
Harold Koenig and colleagues are confident that improving the quality of research will strengthen the usefulness of the overall database. Read More ›
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Why Don’t Near-Death Experiences Support One Belief System?

On the Truthful Hope podcast, Jacob Vazquez and Denyse O'Leary discuss the way people of different faiths see what they themselves recognize
The mind that is having a near-death experience is separated from the body, relying on its own concepts. It is not necessarily a channel of divine truth. Read More ›
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Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, France

Can Cultural Christianity Save Christian Culture?

People cannot reconnect with a view on life that they don’t believe, simply to save the things that only such a view can create and maintain
It’s not just about religion. Neither the Greeks nor the Romans could save their Republics once most people stopped believing in the values that created them. Read More ›
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McDowell: Is It Time Christians Moved Beyond the Evolution Wars?

Actually, a paradigm shift is already underway, Traditional Darwinism faces challenges on a number of fronts within biology studies
Today, people can be atheists and dismiss Darwin all the same. So Christian evangelists and apologists need to reckon with that. Read More ›
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The sunlight glistens through the clouds, creating a ray of hope and symbolizing the presence of a higher power.

Panpsychist Philosopher Espouses “Heretical” Form of Christianity

The fine-tuning of the universe for life was a key factor in Philip Goff's decision that there must be some sort of God
Goff’s eclectic philosophical journey is not likely over. But, generally, it is best to assume that the New Testament authors meant what they said. Read More ›