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Human Brain Complexity Surpasses Animal Brains

Human brains are superior not just in the quantity of neurons, but the quality.

Can Soccer Glorify God?

As we approach the World Cup Finals, we reflect on the biological processes necessary for playing soccer and how even these leisurely activities point to God’s handiwork.

Humans Do Not Have an Evolved “Lizard Brain”

The notion that the base of our brain evolved from a lizard brain is now fully debunked.

Can Artificial Intelligence Understand Goodness?

As Geneva prepares for the global ‘AI for Good’ summit (July 7-10), this article reflects on key questions in the AI debate pertaining to morality and ‘goodness’.

Language: A Serious Problem for Deep Time

Language provides compelling evidence that our history is much shorter than we’ve been told.

Anesthesia Opens a Window into Conscious Awareness

The more success neuroscience has in explaining the machinery of cognition, the more sharply consciousness stands out from that machinery.

Evolutionary Theory of Aging: Light or Shadow?

Life is the only phenomenon we know that continually resists decay.

Carlo Rovelli’s View of Consciousness Refutes Itself

What we are seeing here is not the triumph of a new scientific insight, but an inversion of the conditions that make science possible.

Humans Are Not Souped-Up Apes

The human mind and body are overdesigned with abilities and behaviors above and beyond the needs of survival.

Genes Tell No Tales About Language Evolution

The better we understand the machinery of life, the more intricate it becomes – and the more the evolutionary narrative begins to look like a theoretical jury-rigging.

What Fire Teaches About Intelligent Design

The world’s largest controlled fire whirl experiment challenges evolutionary narratives and highlights purposeful design.

“Brain as a Computer” Metaphor Rebooted

While the brain is certainly more and other than a computer, it is also not less than one.

When Laws Evolve, Part 2: The Return of the Problem of Law

Modern science cannot sustain the laws of nature while insisting those laws are merely temporary habits picked up in a lawless flux.

Brain Cleaned by Abdominal Hydraulic System

Scientists discover that the human brain is more mechanically interconnected with the abdomen than previously thought. 

Engineered Networks Mimic Living Networks

The world recognizes technological feats in telecommunications this month. We reflect on key common engineering parallels in biology pointing to markers of intelligent design.
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