Year: 2025 | Page 9 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, behaviors, biological complexity, body plans, Casey Luskin, characters, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, faith and science, ID the Future, Jacob Vasquez, life, natural selection, neo-Darwinian model, origin of life, podcast, random mutation, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book), Truthful Hope}

Casey Luskin: Theistic Evolution and the Limits of Neo-Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 21, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Casey Luskin addresses the inadequacy of natural selection and random mutation to generate biological complexity. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, atheism, atheists, DNA, double helix, evolution, Francis Crick, genes, genetic engineering, genetics, gods, human beings, James D. Watson, nihilism, Nobel Prize, podcasters, purposelessness, racists, religion, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, theism}

Tortured, Contradictory: The Legacy of James Watson

_{David Klinghoffer
November 21, 2025

Evolution, Genetics

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"A noxious atheist, Watson unwittingly pointed the way toward scientific evidence of a creator." Read More ›

Female robot face, Artificial intelligence concept. Generative AI

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 21, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, brain, brain mapping, COSM 2025, debates, emotions, free will, history of science, immaterial mind, intelligent design, logic, machines, mathematics, memories, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, near-death experiences, psychology, seizures, sensations, soul, twins}

COSM Debate: “Are Human Beings Machines?”

_{Casey Luskin
November 21, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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The debate centered on the mind and brain and whether the mind is distinct from the brain or whether we’re nothing more than chemicals and firing neurons. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 20, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, ambition, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, computer, COSM 2025, Discovery Institute, hallucinations, Microsoft, numbers, OpenAI, pixels, Star Trek, technology, Terminator, words}

Tech Exec Speaks Truth About AI at COSM

_{Casey Luskin
November 20, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

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When AI assistants were first released, AI companies faced a problem: people were hesitant. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 20, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, academic freedom, Arizona, artificial inteligence, China, computer, COSM 2025, information, intelligent design, James Tour, memory, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, Soviet Union, technology, voltage}

At COSM, Sharing Information Is Key to Solving Tech Problems

_{Casey Luskin
November 20, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

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Information is key to innovation, and a familiar question intelligent design asks is “Where does information come from?” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 20, 2025

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal intelligence, ants, bears, biology, human intelligence, information, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, Mihai Andrei, National Zoo, neuroscience, physiology, Science News, West Coast, wolf, ZME Science}

Does Animal Intelligence Point to a Platonic Realm of Pure Information?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 20, 2025

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind

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How could a life form like an ant — not known for creative or independent thinking as such but rather for a hive mind — “evolve” such a strategy? Read More ›

Reading hobby learning animal curious monkey book

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheists, Casey Luskin, chemical evolution, evolution, evolutionary creation, faith and science, ID the Future, living cells, naturalistic evolutionary processes, origin of life, self-replication, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book), theology}

Did God Use Evolution to Produce Life? Why Theistic Evolution Fails

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 19, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The central scientific issue with theistic evolution is that it inherits all the scientific problems associated with the standard evolutionary account. Read More ›

A symbolic visual of two scales, one side tipped heavily, surrounded by stormy clouds and sparks, representing the tension of a fierce debate

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bias, chess, Darwinian evolution, evidence, evolution, intelligent design, interviews, Jacob Vasquez, podcast, Research, Richard Dawkins, The Design Inference, Truthful Hope, William Dembski, Winston Ewert, writing}

Dembski Has Fun with Evolution’s “Overwhelming Evidence”

_{David Klinghoffer
November 19, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Reasoning

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From Richard Dawkins and the like, William Dembski has heard the phrase many, many times. Read More ›

Face in a PCB printed circuit board, transhumanism, singularity, universe simulation hypothesis, AI artificial intelligence

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 19, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, eliminative materialism, ideas, information, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Kurt Gödel, Lawrence Krauss, logical positivism, materialist atheism, Michelle Starr, philosophers, physics, Plato, Platonic forms, Skynet, Terminator, universe, University of British Columbia}

Calm Down, the Universe as a Simulation Is Mathematically Impossible

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 19, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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The idea that information underlies the universe is compatible with the very intelligent design theory that Lawrence Krauss has opposed in the past. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 18, 2025

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, chimps, crows, fungi, humans, John Horgan, Johns Hopkins University, Marc Bekoff, New Scientist, New York Times, New York University, octopuses, plants, prairie dogs, Psychology Today, tools, William Egginton}

On New Book, Elite Opinion Cuts Loose from Reality

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 18, 2025

Human Exceptionalism, Scientific Reasoning

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All these intellectual worthies, in deadly earnest virtue, choose to miss the point. Read More ›