1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (427+ words) According to the Gospels, inspired by the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ did not avoid physical suffering on the cross, but rather embraced it as part of his mission to redeem humanity. But can God ease or irradicate the suffering, both…...

15+ hour, 6+ min ago   (328+ words) This article by philosopher of science Bruce Gordon is republished from Science and Culture Today. The frequently thought-provoking series Closer to Truth, created and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, recently released an interview clip with the Oxford physicist Chiara Marletto....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (817+ words) Rey and Finn run to the Millennium Falcon. While running, Rey declared that she is a pilot, so Rey takes the cockpit and Finn takes the turret. As they are preparing, both Rey and Finn try to reassure themselves, muttering…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (658+ words) Ross Douthat, who joined The New York Times as a conservative Catholic opinion columnist in 2009, is heading over to CBS’ 60 Minutes as a correspondent. He is one of the major new hires since ex-NYT journalist and founder of The Free…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (615+ words) Our director, computer engineering prof Robert J. Marks, was a guest last Monday on the Humanize Today podcast, hosted by Wesley J. Smith, talking about the benefits and perils of AI. As Smith notes, he has worked on artificial intelligence for more…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (677+ words) Dwarfing climate change, it seems. At the Spectator (US edition), Robert Bryce puts some numbers to the hostility: I’ve been a reporter for four decades. And over the past 16 years, I have been closely tracking the global backlash against Big…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (303+ words) On Monday, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor did a podcast with Pat Flynn for Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence on how materialism is faring in the battle for the mind. Egnor is the first author of The Immortal Mind: (Worthy, June…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (408+ words) During my lifetime, Neanderthal man has gotten progressively smarter. Well, not personally smarter because he now survives only in our genomes. But before we knew very much about him — including the fact that he does survive in our genomes — it…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (401+ words) Chances are, you don’t because bots see things differently from the way we do. That’s the basis for ShieldFont, which was developed to prevent bots from just scraping everybody’s hard work on the internet. Essentially, it is intended for “polluting…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (280+ words) From The Economist in Britain, we learn a sobering fact about AI and the law. Britain’s employment tribunals allow people to represent themselves. Because AI is making that much easier, the number of cases has ballooned. For example, under British…...