Author: George Montañez

Bacterial Flagellar Motor Proton-Driven Rotary Nanomachine

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Author
George Montañez

Date
August 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, Big Bangs, biology, bioRxiv, Casey Luskin, computational biologists, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinian processes, dough, evolutionary change, genes, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, Last Bacterial Common Ancestor, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Michael Behe, Nature Reviews Microbiology, type III secretion system, Wikipedia, William Dembski, yeast}

Mighty and Meek: Behe’s Great Work at Age 30

_{George Montañez
August 5, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The sheer amount of research that has gone into trying to find alternative explanations to what Behe has proposed is mind-boggling. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artifacts, Buddy the Elf, C. S. Lewis, cells, Claude, Claude Delusion, Donald Knuth, evolution, femme bot, intelligence, intelligent causes, intelligent design, large language models, Lego blocks, materialism, Nik Prassas, Richard Dawkins, symbolic artifacts, thinking, tokens, Transformer blocks, Turing test, unintelligent causes}

Why Dawkins’s Argument for AI Is an Argument for God

_{George Montañez
July 15, 2026

Computational Sciences, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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If step-by-step mechanical explanations do not rule out creation by intelligent agents, then I’m not sure we can dismiss the evidence for design in nature. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Blaise Pascal, boats, Charles Darwin, Cicero, conversations, courtrooms, cruise ship, DNA, entrepreneurs, executives, Florence, Galileo Galilei, HR departments, implossible, intelligent design, intention, jesus, jobs, Kevin Kelly, leaders, Leonardo da Vinci, magazines, Michael Behe, Moses, Paul Nelson, Pythagoras, Renaissance, salary, scholars, Stephen Meyer, talent, television, universities, Wa’a Kaulua, William Dembski}

Aboard the Lifeboat — or Cruise Ship — of Intelligent Design

_{George Montañez
June 12, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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It takes persistence to remain on board. Not everyone is cut out for the life of a maligned academic. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
June 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, alphabet, books, bookshelves, Claude, fair coin, fiction, Hebrew, hexagons, implausible, implossibility, implossible, impossible, intelligent design, Jorge Luis Borges, letters, library, Monty Python, peer-reviewed literature, probability, punctuation, spaces, The Library of Babel, universe, Vindications, World Cup, zero}

On Implossibility (No, Spell-Check Didn’t Fail Me)

_{George Montañez
June 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life

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What is the probability of forming a book with at least one hundred words in a row, if we are sampling from the Hebrew alphabet? Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
April 21, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, amnesia, Arrival (movie), Big Bang, biology, Brian Keating, carbon resonance, Christians, creator, DNA, double helix, ecology, films, fingerprints, Fred Hoyle, Georges Lemaître, Getty Images, H.L. Mencken, history of science, Interstellar (movie), James Tour, Jay Richards, john lennox, kairos, Lawrence Krauss, Luke Barnes, multiverse, physics, Richard Dawkins, scientific discoveries, Seven Samurai, Stephen Meyer, The Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride, The Story of Everything, theaters, theists, Timothy McGrew, universe, Young Earth Creationists}

The Story of Everything…or of Nothing?

_{George Montañez
April 21, 2026

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physics

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The movie is respectful in how it addresses questions. It doesn’t preach. But it challenges perspectives at the heart of who we are. Read More ›

Lone motorcyclist riding on an open road in a black and white landscape

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Author
George Montañez

Date
March 22, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, accolades, artificial intelligence, atoms, biological origins, career, chemical reactions, cognitive simulation, community, computer science, cosmos, cremation, death, design detection, faith and science, intelligent design, love, machine learning, materialist paradigm, mathematics, motorcycle, natural theology, nature, peers, resurrection, tears, unguided processes, universe, YouTube videos}

The Matters that Matter: What I Learned from My Brother’s Death

_{George Montañez
March 22, 2026

Computational Sciences, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I’ve built my professional career on twin pillars. The first is cognitive simulation, that is, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Read More ›

Closeup of a newborn baby dreaming and smiling while sleeping.

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Author
George Montañez

Date
March 12, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, AI systems, angels, Arthur Benjamin, artifacts, artificial inteligence, atheists, Buddhists, Christianity, dehumanizing, ethics, functional capabilities, Herodians, Hindus, human abilities, human intelligence, human value, humans, image, image-bearing, intelligence, jesus, Judaism, Judeo-Christian framework, Muslims, newborn, Pharisees, representation, resemblance, Son of Man, spiritual beings}

Why AI Won’t Replace Us Spiritually

_{George Montañez
March 12, 2026

Computational Sciences, Human Exceptionalism

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AI systems increasingly resemble human intelligence. But resemblance alone does not make them image bearers. It cannot. AI systems do not represent God. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
February 26, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Human Exceptionalism
Technology
Tagged
, AI agents, automaton, capability widgets, computer, desire, digital media, displacement, disruption, economics, expertise, generative AI systems, goal-setting, Hidden Figures, human computer, humans, information technology, Johannes Gutenberg, journalism, knowledge, labor, literacy, machines, manual labor, manufacturing, mass media, publishing, replacement, science, scribes, tech economy, technology, widgets, work}

Will Humans Still Matter in an AI Economy?

_{George Montañez
February 26, 2026

Computational Sciences, Human Exceptionalism, Technology

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Before Johannes Gutenberg’s invention, scribes painstakingly copied manuscripts by hand. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
February 25, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animals, arithmetic, artificial inteligence, attention, bigram model, Claude, Claude Shannon, coherence, comprehension, computer code, conversations, Data Processing Inequality, disinformation, embedding, English, fish, food, functional capability, games, generative AI systems, GPT-5, humans, incompleteness theorem, information theory, Kurt Gödel, large language models, mathematical reasoning, model collapse, music, numbers, pixels, poetry, processing, prompts, reasoning, René Magritte, semantics, statistical patterns, syntax, The Treachery of Images, tokens, vectors, video, William Shakespeare, word approximation, words}

Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally

_{George Montañez
February 25, 2026

Computational Sciences, Human Exceptionalism

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The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Read More ›