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Given recent Supreme Court rulings, columnist Joe Blundo imagines the outcomes of fictional cases involving ballistic missiles, theory of evolution.

What is there in the center of a Black Hole?  This question is inextricably connected with another one: where did Big Bang come from?

Does it really need to be pointed out that roads are designed? That where they go is designed? And that even badly laid out roads are laid out by design?

‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here', Dante’s Divina Commedia.

Jason Rosenhouse insists that intelligent design proponents obey his rules, but happily flouts them himself.

If there’s one thing that Rosenhouse does well in this book, it is to misrepresent intelligent design and its use of mathematics.

Although the artificial intelligence community often disagrees on key issues, it has mostly rejected the assertion that the LaMDA bot is sentient.

Blake Lemoine says LaMDA made him question his own beliefs around robotics

A Google engineer has decided to go public after he was placed on paid leave for breaching confidentiality while insisting that the company's AI chatbot, LaMDA, is sentient. Blake Lemoine, who works for Google's Responsible AI organization, began...

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