Author Archives: James Cross

Brain Organization, Not Size, Key to Intelligence

This is good news for all of us who believe we still have additional potential for biological evolution before we need to plug in non-biological implants. A new study, Brain reorganization, not relative brain size, primarily characterizes anthropoid brain evolution, published … Continue reading →

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Beyond Belief: Divine Knowledge

In the early 1970’s living in Oregon I would periodically encounter members of the Children of God. This group was a fundamentalist Christian group regarded generally as a cult. The group lived communally and recruited dropouts from the hippie movement … Continue reading →

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Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos

The recent publication of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False (1) has excited the intelligent design advocates and drawn scorn from scientists and materialists. Steven Pinker on Twitter called the … Continue reading →

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