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SCT: What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

Selective pressure is said to be a driver of evolution. See if that makes any sense.

Emergence, Properly Understood

"Emergence" is one of the omnipresent enthymemes of modern scientific discourse.

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.

Malthus Had World Population Predictions Mathematically Backwards

In commemoration of World Population Day (July 11), we reflect on recent discourse in demography suggesting hidden economic burdens from lower birth rate trends, and the role of morality in shaping fertility choices.

Another Evolutionary Dogma Bites the Dust

We are exposing how easily institutional science can mistake its own philosophical commitments for verified empirical data.

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.

AI Is More Open-Minded Than Darwinists

A CEH colleague poses questions to MS Copilot, finding it much more astute than the popular science press.

One Science, Under God, Indivisible

If scientific materialism collapses, and with it methodological naturalism, could robust science continue?

Why Human Rights Are Unalienable

A new book explores in detail the meaning of the historic words in the Declaration of Independence.

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.

Tiny Birds, Big Evolutionary Claims

A discussion moves beyond adaptation itself to broader claims about speciation and evolutionary diversification.

Humans Are Not Souped-Up Apes

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