Category: Life Sciences | Page 170 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Carboniferous Period, charcoal, evaporative cooling, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness, Goldilocks, iron, lignin, metallurgy, metals, Nature, organic compounds, oxygen, photosynthesis, physiology, plant cells, pottery, radiation, steam engine, trees, wood}

The Role of Lignin for Fire, Explained

_{Michael Denton
August 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Without lignin, there would be no woody plants, no wood, no coal, no charcoal, no fire, no pottery, and certainly no iron or metallurgy. Read More ›

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Date
August 1, 2020

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, cardio-pulmonary arrest, control systems, death, Evolution News, health, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, medicine, physicians, Ray Bohlin}

Intricately Designed Control Systems Sustain Your Life Right Now — A Doctor Explains

_{Science and Culture
August 1, 2020

Biology, Medicine

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Biologist Ray Bohlin interviews physician Howard Glicksman about a common cause of death, cardio-pulmonary arrest. Read More ›

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Date
July 31, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, artificial intelligence, C.S. Lewis, Dan Brown, future, Hesiod, history, ID the Future, john lennox, Max Tegmark, MIT, mythology, Oxford University, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, science fiction, theology, transhumanism}

Oxford Mathematician John Lennox Reviews AI Predictions Through the Ages

_{Science and Culture
July 31, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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With Robert J. Marks, Dr. Lennox discusses AI’s cousin, transhumanism, its surprising history, and its potentially very dark future. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
July 31, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, airplanes, computers, cosmic fine-tuning, earth, encyclopedias, evolution, fire, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent beings, intelligent design, iPhones, James Tour, Jupiter, materialists, metals, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, other worlds, Paul Davies, physical constants, planetary fine-tuning, Rice University, Science Uprising, scientific discovery, self-replicating machine, Stephen Hawking, The Edge of Evolution, The Problems of Physics, water, Why Evolution Is Different}

A “Lush” World Defies Materialist Explanations, as Behe and Denton Confirm

_{Granville Sewell
July 31, 2020

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physics, Technology

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Conditions on Earth, the laws of physics, are not only fine-tuned for the survival of intelligent beings, they are fine-tuned for the development of technology. Read More ›

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Date
July 27, 2020

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, artificial intelligence, consciousness, economy, future, ID the Future, john lennox, mathematician, medicine, Oxford University, podcast, programmers, Robert J. Marks II}

John Lennox: What (Not) to Expect of Artificial Intelligence in 2084

_{Science and Culture
July 27, 2020

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A key question as we move toward this future, says Lennox, is what does it mean to be human? Read More ›

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Date
July 27, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Geophysical Union, animals, Astrobiology Magazine, birds, Breitbart, Current Biology, Eric Anderson, evolutionists, geomagnetic field, GPS, Illustra Media, insects, intelligent design, Living Waters, lobsters, mammals, navigation, random mutation, reptiles, sea turtles, Somalia, Swansea University, Temple University, University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania}

Many “Miracles”: Navigation Arose Independently Across Diverse Animal Species

_{Science and Culture
July 27, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design

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From sea turtles to the family dog, animals travel unerringly over long distances using geophysical cues. And it all evolved, independently, by chance! Believe that? Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, arthropods, bioRxiv, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian fossils, Cambrian News, Cambrian phyla, Canada, carbon, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran fossils, evolution, fossil record, geochemistry, Newfoundland, oxygen, PNAS, Proterozoic Eon, Stephen Meyer}

In Carbon Isotope Excursions, Darwinists Lose Another Excuse for the Cambrian Explosion

_{Science and Culture
July 23, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The claim that a spike in carbon isotope concentrations led to the explosion of biological diversity in the Cambrian doesn’t hold up, as if it would have helped, anyway. Read More ›

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Date
July 21, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, brain, Caltech, cell death, Darwinists, DNA, embryo, Evolution News, foresight, gestation, hydrogen bonds, intelligent design, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, natural selection, Nature Communications, phagocytes, PNAS, proteins, quality control, repair, Science Advances, skull}

In Cells and Whole Organisms, Repair Mechanisms Imply Foresight, Not Evolution

_{Science and Culture
July 21, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design

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It takes foresight to make complex tools and procedures that can restore the functions of other tools. A blind process can only see the immediate present. Read More ›

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial general intelligence, computer science, computer simulations, deep learning, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, John Koza, Neural Networks, neuroevolution, software, software engineering}

Neuroevolution Methods Show Significant Success

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 18, 2020

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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The Darwinian algorithm works in theory, but does not work in practice, when applied in the domain of software production. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
July 17, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Centre for Intelligent Design UK, coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, history, intelligent design, pandemic, viruses}

COVID-19 and Biochemical Design

_{Michael Behe
July 17, 2020

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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On a webinar today, I will discuss viruses in historical time, their basic biochemical design, where they came from, and what they might evolve into. Read More ›