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Delicious roasted whole chicken or turkey on plate with cutlery and sauce , harvest grilled vegetables on dark rustic background, top view, banner, frame. Thanksgiving Day food
Delicious roasted whole chicken or turkey on plate with cutlery and sauce , harvest grilled vegetables on dark rustic background, top view, banner, frame. Thanksgiving Day food
Jay W. Richards
November 21, 2019
Discovery Institute, Religion and Civic Life
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One Person’s Journey to a Fasting Lifestyle: Week One

Jay W. Richards
November 21, 2019
Discovery Institute, Religion and Civic Life
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In my forthcoming book Eat, Fast, Feast (available for pre-order now), I describe a six-week plan to help Christians make fasting a rewarding part of their lives. Most of us don’t really fast. Catholics do residual fasting — an hour before Mass, for instance. And we eat a little less on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. These are really partial abstinences. The harsh truth is that we’ve abandoned the fasting discipline that defined most of Christian history and replaced it with excuses. Some evangelicals and evangelical churches fast, but it’s not anchored in the calendar or long-standing practice. So, it tends to go in and out of fashion, rather than becoming a permanent spiritual practice. Really the only Christian communities that have retained serious fasting are the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Rite churches. They have something to teach the rest of us. Read More ›
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Gregory Scruggs
November 19, 2019
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Why Experts Say the Pacific Northwest is a ‘Perfect Laboratory’ for Autonomous Technology

Gregory Scruggs
November 19, 2019
Cascadia
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The hype cycle for autonomous vehicles may have slowed down after the March 2018 fatal accident involving a self-driving Uber car, but for AV booster Bruce Agnew, the Pacific Northwest offers a wide range of applications for the technology that go far beyond passengers traveling big-city streets. As director of ACES — a Madrona Venture Group and INRIX-backed network promoting autonomous, connected, electric, and shared vehicles — Agnew sees the diverse geography and economic opportunities of the region as ripe for those four trends to converge in transportation. While much of the attention on autonomous vehicles thus far has focused on their urban applications, as the everyday car driver imagines what it might be like to relinquish the wheel, that’s not where the technology is heading first, experts say. Read More ›
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The Center for Science and Culture
November 14, 2019
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design
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C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

The Center for Science and Culture
November 14, 2019
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design
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The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society will explore the growing impact of science on politics, economics, social policy, bioethics, theology, and the arts during the past century. The program is named after celebrated British writer C.S. Lewis, a perceptive critic of both scientism and technocracy in books such as The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength. Topics to be addressed include Read More ›

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The Patristic Understanding of Creation
William A. Dembski
November 14, 2019
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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The Patristic Understanding of Creation

William A. Dembski
November 14, 2019
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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The Patristic Understanding of Creation encapsulates what the Church Fathers had to say, in their own words, on the topic of creation. Going back to Roman and Byzantine times, the writings of the Church Fathers are basic to Christian theology and provide a benchmark for how Christians have traditionally understood creation. This understanding of creation, however, faces tremendous challenges in Read More ›

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Discovery Institute
November 13, 2019
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design
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Memorial Symposium for Phillip Johnson

Discovery Institute
November 13, 2019
Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design
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You are invited to join us at the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley from 4:00–5:30 PM on Saturday, November 23 to hear brief (10–15 minute) tributes from intelligent design scientists and scholars who have been directly impacted by Phil's life and have since become the ID torch-bearers for our generation. Among those speaking are Stephen Meyer, Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, Douglas Axe, Paul Nelson, and others. Read More ›
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Scott S. Powell
November 12, 2019
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Veterans Day: Celebration of a Greater Love

Scott S. Powell
November 12, 2019
Uncategorized
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Veteran’s Day had its origin at the end of World War I in 1918, a conflict so horrendous that it was dubbed, “the Great War,” or “the war to end all wars,” with the United States playing the decisive role in the Allied powers’ final victory. It was first known as Armistice Day, celebrated on November 11 because that was Read More ›

Computer Engineer and Scientists Create Neural Network at His Workstation. Office is Full of Displays Showing 3D Representations of Neural Networks.
Computer Engineer and Scientists Create Neural Network at His Workstation. Office is Full of Displays Showing 3D Representations of Neural Networks.
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Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2019
Natural and Artificial Intelligence
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How Algorithms Can Seem Racist

Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2019
Natural and Artificial Intelligence
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Some of the recent conflicts around algorithms and ethnicity are flubs that social media entrepreneurs will regret. Others may endanger life. Read More ›
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David Berlinski
November 11, 2019
Intelligent Design
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Human Nature

David Berlinski
November 11, 2019
Intelligent Design
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Conventional wisdom holds that the murder rate has plummeted since the Middle Ages; humankind is growing more peaceful and enlightened; man is shortly to be much improved — better genes, better neural circuits, better biochemistry; and we are approaching a technological singularity that well may usher in utopia. Human Nature eviscerates these and other doctrines of a contemporary nihilism masquerading as science. Read More ›

David Berlinski, Writer, Thinker, and Raconteur
David Berlinski
November 11, 2019
Intelligent Design
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David Berlinski, Writer, Thinker, and Raconteur

David Berlinski
November 11, 2019
Intelligent Design
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An acclaimed author who has spent his career writing about mathematics and the sciences, Berlinski turns the scientific community’s cherished skepticism back on itself, daring to ask and answer some rather embarrassing question. For more visit his website at https://davidberlinski.org/ His latest book is Human Nature (Discovery Institute Press 2019). Conventional wisdom holds that the murder rate has plummeted since Read More ›