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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
August 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Technology
Zoology
Tagged
, beauty, Darwinists, Fire-Maker, geneticists, Giraffe, gratuitous beauty, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligence, intelligent beings, Jay Richards, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, nature, problem of pain, scientific discovery, survival of the fittest, technology, The American Spectator, The Edge of Evolution, The Story of Everything, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Our Lush World: Considering the Problem of Beauty

_{Granville Sewell
August 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Technology, Zoology

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“If, on the other hand, one views nature as ingenious artwork that cannot be reduced to the question of utility alone, these problems disappear.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 28, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, academic freedom, characters, Chicago, Community Emergency Response Team, Darwinists, demon core, disaster medicine, Discovery Institute Press, district attorney, FEMA, Geoffrey Simmons, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Manhattan Project, neurosurgeons, nuclear terrorist, plot}

Geoffrey Simmons: Man’s Beginning — And His End?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 28, 2026

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Have you ever read a book in which both the origin and end of man hang in the balance? That’s a rare combination that comes together in a new thriller novel. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 23, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, AI necklace, Andrew McDiarmid, anti-social media, artificial inteligence, emailing, friend (tech device), friends, human interaction, humans, new york, New York Post, nightmares, personality, Silicon Valley, smartphones, social media, startups, statistics, subway ads, surveillance, technology, texting, The Atlantic, voice}

In NY Post, McDiarmid on Social Isolation and the Tech Nightmare

_{David Klinghoffer
August 23, 2026

Computational Sciences, Technology

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The wearable AI necklace, Friend, opens up a whole new chapter of horror. It’s not a parody: young people wear their “Friend” on their person. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 31, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Amazon, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Ben Mann, Big Tech, books, booksellers, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, copyright, ISBNdb, Kindle, knowledge, large language models, licensing, LLMs, Peter Biles, Project Panama, technicians, techno-utopianism, technological view, technology, wisdom}

It’s Time to Buy Old Books Before AI Destroys Them

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 31, 2026

Computational Sciences, Technology

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This scheme is the brain child of technicians, people who lead tech companies and tech labs who are wholly committed to a technological view of the world. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, agency, algorithmic logic units, avida, Brain Potter, Brian Arthur, circuits, combinations, comparators, complex circuits, components, computer simulation, decoders, digital logic circuits, economists, encoders, evolution, functionality, functions, multiplexers, Nature (journal), needs, population counters, Richard Lenski, Robert Pennock, stepping stones, technology}

Technological Evolution: Accidentally Demonstrating the Limits of Evolution

_{Winston Ewert
July 16, 2026

Evolution, Technology

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While economist Brian Arthur models the development of technology, he refers to it as the “evolution” of technology. Read More ›

How microservices enhance application modularity

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Technology
Tagged
, biological systems, biology, Brain Potter, Brian Arthur, combinations, Construction Physics, economists, engineering, evolutionary theory, functionality, genes, genetic recombination, horizontal gene transfer, information, intelligent design, modularity, mutations, recombination, sexual reproduction, subcomponents, technology}

Modularity: Insufficient for and Unexplained by Evolution

_{Winston Ewert
July 15, 2026

Biology, Engineering, Technology

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The fundamental problem with this analysis is that sexual reproduction does not make anything modular. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 12, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, air conditioning, Associated Press, atonement, carbon emissions, China, Christianity, deaths, Europe, extreme heat, forgiveness, global warning, guilt, heat wave, love, monkeys, monotheism, pagan religions, punishment, red warnings, religion, Sarah Salviander, secular religion, self-preservation, supernatural, The Story of Everything}

Sweeping Europe, a Pagan Religion Has Daggers Out for This Technology

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 12, 2026

Faith & Science, Technology

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A religion that sees humans as merely “an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet” would consider these unnecessary deaths hardly worth noticing. Read More ›

red pulsating heart with veins, anatomy of a human organ, on a blue background with bokeh

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, atrial fibrillation, confidence, database, Eric Anderson, evidence, headlines, medical claims, medical world, patients, rigor, Science News, scientific claims}

High Confidence? Low Confidence? Six Criteria for Science Claims

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 17, 2026

Medicine, Technology

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To illustrate the difference between high and low confidence science, Rob Stadler shares a humbling story from his career in medical devices. Read More ›

AI Artificial Intelligence,Digital chatbot, Man chatting with digital assistant chatbot on mobilephone on internet application,Future of customer service man utilizes AI chatbot for instant assistance

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
February 27, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Ethics
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, chatbots, ChatGPT, cheating, culture, environment, ethics, jobs, Julie Jargon, Leo Gurney, London, parents, privacy, social media, students, teachers, technology, teens, Wall Street Journal, young people}

Good News: Young People Are Skeptical of AI — Even if Their Parents Aren’t

_{Peter Biles
February 27, 2026

Computational Sciences, Ethics, Technology

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ChatGPT. Every student uses it to write papers. So goes the pervading fear, that is. 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 ›