Category: Culture
Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex
Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging.
Darwin, Lyell, and a Tale of Two Faiths
Darwin found himself in the unhappy position of having his faith undermined by what he saw as the non-directed processes of geological and biological evolution.
Evolution and the Disturbing Consequences of Denying Free Will
How can an evolutionist such as Jerry Coyne condemn even something as manifestly heinous as the Nazi Holocaust?
Darwin, Lyell, and Demythologization
The term demythologization is today most frequently associated with the mid 20th-century German theologian Rudolf Bultmann.
Where the Abortion Debate Goes from Here
On a new podcast, host Wesley Smith and guest Catherine Glenn Foster discuss the Dobbs decision.