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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, blindness, eyesight, Forrest Mims, hearing, ID the Future, interview, Maverick Scientist, science}

For a Maverick Scientist, Curiosity Lead to Unexpected Adventures

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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In 1907, Forrest Mims’s great-grandfather lost his eyesight in a train track construction accident. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 30, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, atmospheric science, college, Darwinian evolution, Forrest Mims, ID the Future, intelligent design, Maverick Scientist, NASA, podcast, science writers, Scientific American, skepticism}

Can a Successful Scientist Be Self-Taught?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 30, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Without a college science degree, Mims taught himself the fundamentals of engineering and atmospheric science. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Applied Optics, atmospheric science, curiosity, determination, Discover Magazine, Forrest Mims, ID the Future, intelligent design, magazines, Maverick Scientist: My Adventures as an Amateur Scientist, NASA, Nature (journal), NOAA, podcast, Radio Shack, Science (journal), Scientific American}

Forrest Mims: The Making of a Maverick Scientist

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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What does it take to be a scientist? For Forrest Mims, the answer is simple: you just have to do science. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Biological Information: New Perspectives, civilization, compensation, Darwinists, disorder, entropy, human intelligence, Mathematical Intelligencer, Moon, multiverse, natural forces, open system, order, physical constants, Physics Essays, probability, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified complexity, sun, tautology, temperature, The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, William A. Dembski}

Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

_{Granville Sewell
March 1, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Education
Technology
Tagged
, algorithms, An Idol for Destruction (series), Aristotle, artificial general intelligence, chess, children, computers, Dante Alighieri, education, farming, happiness, humans, humility, idols, Inferno, iPhones, machines, peace, Silicon Valley, social media, The Politics of Revelation and Reason}

Artificial General Intelligence: Destroying the Idol

_{William A. Dembski
February 7, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Education, Technology

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Even those doing the most to build and publicize the AGI idol do not wish it on their children. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 4, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, Bijan Nemati, Dallas, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, earth, ecosystems, events, Guillermo Gonzalez, human body, intelligent design, laws of nature, minerals, nitrogen, oxygen, science and faith}

Dallas Conference: How Earth Was Designed for Technological Advancement

_{Brian Miller
February 4, 2024

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics, Technology

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I will explain how the fine-tuning of the laws of physics, our planet, and life interrelate in symphonic harmony to allow humans to advance technologically. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial intelligence, Bertrand Russell, chess, Elon Musk, environments, Los Angeles, machines, Robert J. Marks II, self-driving cars, software, Tesla, West Virginia}

Artificial General Intelligence: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

_{William A. Dembski
January 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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The worry is — and it’s a legitimate worry — that our environments will increasingly be altered to accommodate AI. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, ChatGPT, cyborgs, Elon Musk, Genesis, Greek, HAL 9000, Heaven, Hebrew, humans, idols, Isaiah, Leslie Zeigler, Neuralink, New Testament, Old Testament, OpenAI, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Altman, Skynet, Ten Commandments, The Matrix, The Singularity is Near, The Singularity is Nearer, Tower of Babel, zealotry}

Artificial General Intelligence: An Idol for Destruction

_{William A. Dembski
January 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Idols are always frauds because they substitute a lesser for a greater, demanding reverence for the lesser at the expense of the greater. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, allegory, devices, electromagnetic waves, electronic circuitry, emergent properties, evidence, evolution, functionality, intelligent design, mutations, predictions, radio, scientists, television}

An Allegory of Denial

_{Eric Hedin
January 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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On a distant world lived people in a society not unlike our own, except in one interesting way. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
January 17, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, abortion, anti-Semitism, Aryans, assisted suicide, C.S. Lewis, cowardice, culture, emotion, evolutionary theory, France, Germany, humanity, Jews, mortality, Nazi Germany, power, radio, skin color, That Hideous Strength, transhumanism, white supremacy, World War II}

The Nazis and Their Transhumanist Delusion

_{Peter Biles
January 17, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Technology

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A new series on Netflix shows what can happen when the delusions of transhumanism join forces with an appalling ideology. Read More ›