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Bonnassies, coauthor of French bestseller, interviewed on Humanize

The science world appears to be moving away from the assertive atheism of James D. Watson, who died earlier this month

A downloadable audio file is available from Humanize of an interview with Olivier Bonnassies, author with Michel-Yves Bolloré of God: the Science, the Evidence (2025).

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Current Science Is Sending Alarming Signals of a Declining System

Retractions have increased five-fold (and that's just the tip of the problem) while the Big Five science publishers continue to make huge profits

Some factors blamed are a “publish or perish” culture, lax oversight, secrecy, and the low status of research integrity officers (RIOs).

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Scientist Cuts Ties with Top Journal Nature over Ideological Bias

Warnings about the ideological pollution of science journals have not convinced the funders or editors of these important publications to institute reform

If more scientists follow Anna Krylov’s lead in simply severing ties from journals that are being politicized, reform may follow.

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Physicists: Math Shows That the Universe Can’t Be a Simulation

The physicists argue that pure information underlies the universe of matter and energy, as a Platonic realm of ideas

We seem a long way now from the once-dominant science view of eliminative materialism in which even human consciousness was not considered real.

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Science on Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs Explaining Away

The first rule of a scientific approach to near-death experiences should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis

The reason medical researchers now take NDEs seriously is a growing body of evidence that can’t just be tossed off with a simple explanation.

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Denial? Science seeks trust but avoids the need for inner reform

Current science seems to be going full steam ahead to Cancel the means by which it formerly advanced knowledge of the world

Despite a swamp of scandals, the focus of discussion seems to be getting the public to trust again, not reform of the system.

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What Happens When Science Degenerates Into a Spoils System?

Chemistry prof Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail

Krylov also calls out the practices of choosing citations on the basis of social justice merit instead of relevance and of censoring awkward findings.

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Wikipedia Qualifies Its “Pseudoscience” Label re Design in Nature

Not only that but newly launched Grokipedia’s entry seems to be written to actually inform the reader rather than to enlist the reader against the topic

On ID, it sounds like Grokipedia, unlike Wikipedia, follows the time-honored rule of letting people explain themselves and saving the commentary for later.

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Monday Micro Softy 50: Cutting Through the Cornbread

How did Yuri Senior cut the cornbread into eight identical portions using only three straight cuts?

You can guess the answer to Microsofty 49 if you try the test question yourself at home, using a small mirror.

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Wall Street Journal Takes On Science and the Existence of God

In an interview, first author of the new book out of France, Michel-Yves Bolloré, tells a WSJ editor, “We are now in a century where science is the best ally of God.” That’s news

With Bolloré and Bonnassies’ work, reality-based thinking is coming back. And the reality is that the universe offers much evidence for God.

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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.”

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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.

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Why Materialism Will Probably Drift Into Panpsychism

I predict that “Nothing is conscious” will be superseded, among fashionable thinkers, by “Everything is conscious.”

Materialists will try to interpret the workings of the brain as one aspect of consciousness that is a natural part of the material universe.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Humanists Cancel Steven Pinker’s Lecture Over Trans Issues

The Humanist Society of Australia pulled out of sponsoring his lecture because they linked him with a defense of the idea that humans are male or female

The episode is part of a much broader picture: When private truth beats public truth, ideology quickly overrules science.

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Why the Soul Doesn’t — and Can’t — Weigh Anything

The question has nothing to do with whether or not the soul exists

Dr. Duncan MacDougall’s attempts to weigh the soul were ingenious as well as controversial but he misunderstood the soul’s nature.

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In What Sense Is Origin of Life From Space a Scientific Question?

We can never know for sure what happened in the remote past. But future discoveries could, in principle, either strengthen or confirm the life from space claim.

One thing emerges clearly from the life from space approach: Intelligent design is a viable hypothesis for the origin of life.

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Monkey Wrenched: Science & the Specter of Private Truth

The landscape in which science flourishes has greatly changed. A rising power threatens even popular science staples like Darwinism. I call that new power “private truth.”

Many people experience a vast liberation when they are freed from the constraints of logic, reason and evidence. They won’t part lightly with their new freedom.

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