Month: April 2021 | Page 4 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 19, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abduction, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, chatbot, Chinese Room, computers, Elon Musk, Erik Larson, Eugene Goostman, Google, intelligence, Jeopardy, John Searle, machine learning, machines, Michael Denton, Microsoft, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, Seattle, Tay, The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, The Singularity is Near, Thomas Ray}

Artificial Intelligence: Unseating the Inevitability Narrative

_{William A. Dembski
April 19, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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World-class chess, Go, and Jeopardy-playing programs are impressive, but they prove nothing about whether computers can be made to achieve AGI. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 19, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, black holes, essential causal chain, evolution, First Way, Five Ways, general relativity, gravitation, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, laws of nature, natural theology, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, summer, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Why the Universe Itself Can’t Be the Most Fundamental Thing

_{Michael Egnor
April 19, 2021

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Imagine a chain hanging from the sky supporting a weight suspended in the air. Each link in the chain is a cause for the continued suspension of the links. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, creationists, Darwinian gradualism, explosions, fossil record, Günter Bechly, jumps, Nature Communications, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, revolutions, Science & Culture Network, Southern California, Triassic period}

Dinosaurs and More: Bechly on the Fossil Record vs. Neo-Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 19, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

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The evidence includes “explosions,” "jumps," and “revolutions” in the history of life that cannot be explained given the assumption of Darwinian gradualism. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
April 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", croissants, information, intelligent design, materialism, methodological naturalism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Lewontin, science stopper, scientists, Stephen Meyer}

Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum

_{Elizabeth Whately
April 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Scientists who label intelligent design as a “God of the gaps” argument are not unlike the incensed man in the art gallery. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
April 18, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Eric Anderson, Every Life Is on Fire, experiments, ID the Future, Jeremy England, prebiotic chemicals}

Brian Miller on Life, Thermodynamics, and Jeremy England

_{Jonathan Witt
April 18, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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While England’s laboratory work is fascinating, what’s happening in his experiments differs dramatically from what is required of even the simplest life Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 17, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, babies, bioethicists, China, embryos, fertilization, genetic engineering, government funding, humans, hybrids, monkeys, Nature (journal), scientists, Stanford University, William Hurlbut}

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2021

Bioethics

3}

They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
April 16, 2021

Categories
Arts
Astronomy
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, common science, cosmic beginning, Edgar Allan Poe, elitism, ether, light, philosophers, poetry, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science, scientific method, scientists, stars, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Edgar Allan Poe — Scientist

_{Elizabeth Whately
April 16, 2021

Arts, Astronomy, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

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In order to think scientifically, you must have an advanced degree in science. Right? Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
April 16, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, COVID-19, Greek, meme, methodological naturalism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, scientists, social media}

Steak-umm vs. Neil deGrasse Tyson

_{Elizabeth Whately
April 16, 2021

Evolution

5}

The Twitter feud has gone viral, with many praising Steak-umm’s sizzling retorts. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, atomists, bees, Charles Darwin, dinosaurs, evolution, French Revolution, Georges Cuvier, giraffe’s neck, J.B.S. Haldane, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, paleontologists, Plato, punctuated equilibrium, scientific materialism, Scott Turner, swarm, tautology, teleology, vitalism}

Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 16, 2021

Biology, Evolution

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The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning. Read More ›

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Date
April 15, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, astrophysics, Big Bang, Brian Keating, cosmic fine-tuning, ID the Future, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, U.C. San Diego}

Stephen Meyer Defends His New Book to Cosmologist Brian Keating

_{Science and Culture
April 15, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Do the laws of cosmology, physics, and biology exhibit dispositive evidence of a cosmic designer? Read More ›