San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie signed legislation on July 29 to expand drug-free permanent supportive housing in the city. Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and San Francisco-based recovery advocate, Tom Wolf, was there for the signing.
On this episode of the Mind Matters News podcast, guest host Pat Flynn welcomes Dr. Robert Marks and Dr. Michael Egnor to the show to critique Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a popular mathematical model that attempts to explain consciousness through computational complexity. Dr. Marks levies his experience in computer engineering to explain the computational impossibility of the theory. He explains why the theory is virtually untestable and why it borders on pseudoscience. Dr. Egnor, meanwhile, draws on his extensive experience as a neurosurgeon to highlight the problems he sees with Integrated Information Theory. Chief among them is a significant medical flaw: patients with a condition known as hydranencephaly, who lack the very brain hemispheres IIT requires for consciousness, …
It’s the book that helped launch the biochemical challenge to Darwinian evolution. It has been hailed as one of the most influential books on science in our lifetime. And this year, it celebrates thirty years in print! On today’s ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid invites you to join him as he reads selections from Darwin’s Black Box, authored by biochemist Michael J. Behe. The landmark book was an intellectual bombshell when it was published in August of 1996. It was reviewed by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other major outlets. It was published by a major New York publishing house, The Free Press, then a division of Simon and Schuster. It was included in a list of the hundred most influential books of the century by National Review. And it has sold …
On this episode of ID The Future out of the archive, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes astrophysicist Guillermo Gonzalez to the program to read and discuss his poem “Totality: A Celestial Theater,” written to commemorate the total solar eclipse that occurred in April 2024. You may already be familiar with Gonzalez’s popular book The Privileged Planet, co-authored with Dr. Jay Richards, unpacking the arguments for our privileged place in the cosmos. You might also have heard about his young adult novel The Farm at the Center of the Universe, co-written with Dr. Jonathan Witt. But you likely didn’t know this accomplished scientist and author is also a poet! Gonzalez first discusses his experience of the 2024 total solar eclipse and his co-hosting of Discovery …