Year: 2021 | Page 54 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, assumptions, axioms, Charles Darwin, incompleteness theorem, Kurt Gödel, Peter Atkins, scientific materialism, scientism, Stephen Hawking, Theory of Everything, William Lane Craig}

How Materialism Proves Unbounded Scientific Ignorance

_{Robert J. Marks II
April 26, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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There is an infinite number of things that are true that we cannot prove scientifically and never will. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, biological origins, Christianity, depression, DNA, documentaries, Douglas Axe, erosion, inspiration, intelligent design, isolation, Jonathan Wells, lockdown, paradigm, personal God, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Scripture, Stephen Meyer, The Paradigm Project, theism}

The Paradigm Project — Intelligent Design in a New Light

_{David Klinghoffer
April 26, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Douglas Axe urges scientists to admit there are things they don’t understand about life's origins, much as there are things in Scripture we can’t grasp. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, biologists, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary ethics, Germany, Jeffrey O’Connell, Julian Huxley, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, militarism, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, Thomas Henry Huxley, World War I}

New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists

_{Richard Weikart
April 26, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 25, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ELIZA program, Erik Larson, Joseph Weizenbaum, philosophers, programmers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Terrific Video Interview with Erik Larson

_{William A. Dembski
April 25, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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It was done before his book was released and gives a succinct summary of the book. It’s short. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 24, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abduction, babies, computers, Erik Larson, Go (game), Harvard University, humans, inference to the best explanation, Noam Chomsky, philosophers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences

_{William A. Dembski
April 24, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

4}

If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, astrology, elitism, evolutionary theory, intelligentsia, Ivy League, materialism, New York Times, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ross Douthat, secularists, Stephen Meyer}

God Hypothesis in the Elitist’s Eye

_{Bethel McGrew
April 23, 2021

Faith & Science

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The secularist is right to feel uncomfortable as he mouths a theistic creed. Theists, for their part, should respect this reluctance. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, anthropologists, anti-Semitism, Arthur Schopenhauer, biologists, Cambridge University Press, Christianity, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, human evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Mein Kampf, Michael Ruse, militarism, Nazism, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

New Book: Social Darwinism and “The Hitler Problem”

_{Richard Weikart
April 23, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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I have clearly argued in all my works that Hitler was an eclectic thinker who drew on many different intellectual influences — some of them contradictory. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, baseball, conferences, Erik Larson, First Things, George Gilder, Jay Richards, Ray Kurzweil, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

“Are We Spiritual Machines?”

_{William A. Dembski
April 23, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

1}

The event at which I moderated the discussion about Ray Kurzweil’s book was the 1998 George Gilder Telecosm conference. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Biola University, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, discount, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, molecular biology, natural selection, restaurants, Undeniable (book)}

The Dessert Cart Paradox — A “Gaping Hole in Evolutionary Theory”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There’s a problem with evolution by “natural selection” that’s indicated in the very words themselves, as biologist Doug Axe points out. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt}

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

_{Richard Weikart
April 22, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›