Category: Life Sciences | Page 148 | Science and Culture Today

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January 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Bill Gates, Casey Luskin, celebrities, computer engineering, computers, consciousness, creativity, Elon Musk, entrepreneurs, evolutionary mechanisms, free will, Harvest House, ID the Future, Nobel laureates, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Robert J. Marks on Why AI Won’t Destroy the World, or Save It

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January 20, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Will robots or other computers ever become so fast and powerful that they become conscious, creative, and free? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 19, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Big Think, brain states, criminal justice, free will, Hannah Arendt, Marcelo Gleiser, materialism, neuroscience, propositions, quantum physics, Sam Harris, totalitarianism, truth}

Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No

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January 19, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 19, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecus, Chromosomal Fusion, common ancestry, creationism, Eugenie Scott, evolution, evolutionary biology, genetic drift, hominids, Homo, human origins, intelligent design, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), natural selection, Niles Eldredge, pseudogenes, punctuated equilibrium, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Jay Gould}

Eugenie Scott Gets Intelligent Design Backwards

_{Casey Luskin
January 19, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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This punctuated, even saltational increase in hominid skull sizes over time continues to be recognized in the literature. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 18, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, creativity, deification, dog, free will, God, gods, human responsibilities, human rights, humans, metaethics, morality, murder, reality, software, The Matrix, transhumanism}

Professor Explains “How to Be a God”

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January 18, 2022

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Transhumanists and futurists worry about guaranteeing rights for AI technologies when they attain “consciousness.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 18, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, American Museum of Natural History, Cambridge University Press, cats, creationist, Darwin's Black Box, Discovery Institute, Eugenie Scott, evolution, explanatory filter, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Leslie Orgel, Michael Behe, misinformation, persecution, Richard Sternberg, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Smithsonian Institution, specified complexity, The Origins of Life, UC San Diego, William A. Dembski, Young Earth Creationism}

Eugenie Scott Lecture Resurrects, Spreads Misinformation on Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
January 18, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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There often seems to be a subtext to her remarks, as if she were telling her audience: “Go forth and persecute.” Read More ›

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Date
January 15, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, carbon, Casey Luskin, cosmic fine-tuning, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny, Phillip E. Johnson, podcast, universe}

Michael Denton on Fine-Tuning: Wheels Within Wheels

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January 15, 2022

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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When it comes to evidence of fine-tuning in the universe, the more you look, the more you find. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Arabidopsis thaliana, biologists, education, evolution, Hamlet, intelligent design, mutations, Nature (journal), neo-Darwinian theory, random mutations, Science Daily, UC Davis}

Plant Biologist: “Mutation Is Very Non-Random”

_{Paul Nelson
January 14, 2022

Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Many people I know in the ID community are strongly interested in rethinking mutation, understanding it as a designed or regulated process. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, Casey Luskin, design logic, E. coli, Engineering Research Group, engineers, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Behe, MIT Press, NASA, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, systems biologists, Waldean Schulz}

Biology as Reverse Engineering

_{Brian Miller
January 13, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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An analogy I like to use is NASA finding a crashed spaceship in a cave located in Area 51. Read More ›

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Date
January 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, cats, cilium, evolution, hair, hair cells, honeybees, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, metazoans, Michael Behe, Nature (journal), physicists, PNAS, predators, rabbits, Royal Society Open Science, squirrels, The Scientist}

Hairy Matters for Evolution

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January 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Thin strands we call hair can give headaches to Darwinists. Here are some surprising stories about hair. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 12, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agnostics, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, George Eliot, HMS Beagle, London, Lucretius, Ludwig Feuerbach, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Naturphilosophie, world spirit}

Darwinian Theory: Science or Speculative Philosophy?

_{Neil Thomas
January 12, 2022

Evolution, Life Sciences

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Bottom line: Darwin did not have a single scrap of empirical fieldwork to document his conjectures. Read More ›