Category: Computational Sciences | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, baseball, Ben Carson, books, ChatGPT, chess, Conservation of Information, education, Jaime Escalante, learning, literacy, LLMs, parents, reading, teachers, technology, transhumanism, Wall Street Journal, Zoom}

Edification vs. Enhancement — The Non-Transhumanist Vision of AI in Education

_{William A. Dembski
October 31, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

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Edify your kids, don’t enhance them. We are organic beings, not gadgets to be improved with newer and better modules. Read More ›

White conceptual keyboard - Wikipedia (key with logotype)

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Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bias, chatbots, Donald Trump, editors, Elon Musk, generative ai, Gizmodo, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, nonprofit organizations, search engines, Wikipedia}

Cry Us a River: AI Chatbots May Be Killing Wikipedia

_{Science & Culture
October 27, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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It’s not clear how this will impact a commonly heard criticism of Wikipedia — bias, very much including the subject of intelligent design. Read More ›

Futuristic Data Encryption and Secure Coding Practices

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Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AI, Alan Turing, codons, complexity, computation, computer science, computers, DNA, Google, John von Neumann, logic gates, programmers}

Life as Computation: An AI Researcher’s (Unwitting) Argument for Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
October 23, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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How many computer geniuses did it take in order to produce even a tiny fragment of this complexity? And how great must be the mind that designed all this! Read More ›

The interior of ancient buildings in the Qin and Han dynasties of China

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
October 3, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Baylor University, brain, ChatGPT, Chinese Room argument, computation, digestion, Discovery Institute Press, John Searle, language, Minding the Brain, ontology, philosophy, Science and Culture Today, scientism, subjectivity, The Nature of Nature, William Dembski}

John Searle (1932–2025): A Titan Passes

_{Bruce Gordon
October 3, 2025

Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Searle’s most famous argument is undoubtedly the Chinese Room argument, first presented in his essay “Minds, Brains, and Programs” (1980). Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 3, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, calculations, computer science, Connecticut, Darwinism, evolution, extracellular matrix, intelligent design, learning, Microsoft, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia}

An Intelligent Design Addendum to AI Horror in Connecticut

_{David Klinghoffer
September 3, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Once the AI determines your preferred viewpoint, it will tell you what the algorithm "thinks" that you want to hear. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, California, ChatGPT, companionship, Connecticut, delusions, editing, empathy, friends, intimacy, John West, journalists, kindness, memory, mental health, Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot, misconduct, New York City, OpenAI, suicide, technology, Wall Street Journal, writing}

In Connecticut, Horrors of AI Finally Come into View

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

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A 56-year-old man, living with his mother in a wealthy New York suburb, developed a “friendship” with ChatGPT. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alan Turing, codebreaking, computing, David Berlinski, diversity, ID the Future, intelligence, inventiveness, Labor Day, mathematicians, origin of life, philosophers, physics, podcast, Science After Babel, scientific reductionism, The Imitation Game, Theory of Everything, World War II}

Berlinski: Life Shows a “Kind of Intelligence Evident Nowhere Else” in Nature

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 1, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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"There is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Allan CP, artificial inteligence, chess, cockroach, computer science, computers, Google, human intelligence, hype, intelligence, Jay Richards, robots, technology, The Science Dilemma}

Jay Richards: AI, Robots, and Moravec’s Paradox

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

2}

Dr. Richards punctures the illusions of AI hype. One is that AI is something really new. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
August 6, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, artificial inteligence, evolution, evolutionary process, fitness landscape, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, PNAS, protein folds, proteins, researchers, sampling bias, simulation tool}

False Science: A Claim to Simulate Protein Evolution

_{Cornelius Hunter
August 6, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The researchers designed a simulation tool, and then falsely claimed that it represents the evolutionary process. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 1, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, Bard, ChatGPT, Conservation of Information, data, education, ID the Future, intelligent design, large language models, physical world, podcast, technology, thought, truth, Wikipedia, William Dembski}

Bill Dembski: Pursuing Truth and Trust in AI and LLMs

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 1, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dembski and I also explore the potential for AI to enhance human capabilities and education if used judiciously. Read More ›