Category: Life Sciences | Page 61 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, bits, cells, Charles Darwin, complex systems, consciousness, Darwin's Black Box, decision, evolution, humans, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, life, Michael Behe, microscopes, On the Origin of Species, podcast, Secrets of the Cell}

Secrets of the Cell — Behind the Scenes with Michael Behe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 14, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Imagine if Charles Darwin could have peered into one of today’s high-powered microscopes and seen the complexity and function in even the simplest living cells. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Andreas Wagner, Casey Luskin, Dan Tawfik, Emily Reeves, empirical evidence, evolution, Evolution News, fitness landscapes, function, intelligent design, KEBDA, mutations, natural laws, natural processes, preconditions, proteins, Religions (journal), Research, Rope Kojonen, sequence space, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), undirected process, Weizmann Institute}

To Create Functional Proteins, Evolution Would Need a Miracle

_{Brian Miller
November 14, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Theologian Rope Kojonen claims that God designed the laws of nature, which then gave rise to “fine-tuned” preconditions and smooth fitness landscapes. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 13, 2023

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, central dogma, Current Biology, diet, DNA, EMBO Reports, epigenetics, evolution, exercise, Frankenstein, genome, intelligent design, John Innes Centre, lifestyle, mind, mood, mutations, pianist, piano, RNA, tempo, University of Georgia, zebra, zebra finch, zebrafish}

Epigenetics: Performing the Genome

_{David Coppedge
November 13, 2023

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Epigenetics is surpassing genetics in distinction, just as the pianist gets the applause and not the piano. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, culture, fauna, flora, geological features, lawyers, Mother Nature, nature rights, Pachamama, personhood, private sector, radicalism, virtue-signaling}

Company Names “Nature” to Board of Directors

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 11, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Life Sciences

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Look what a frivolous culture we are becoming, with the private sector increasingly fueling our intellectual and moral decline. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 10, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Arxiv.org, Baylor University, cats, ChatGPT, computer science, creativity, Denyse O'Leary, Dogs, gene pool, George Montañez, Harvey Mudd College, humans, inbreeding, large language models, Popular Mechanics, pornography, Robert J. Marks II, Walter Myers, William A. Dembski}

Must AI Inevitably Degenerate into Nonsense, through “Model Collapse”?

_{Casey Luskin
November 10, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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AI works because humans are real creative beings, and AIs are built using gigantic amounts of diverse and creative datasets made by humans. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 9, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Academy Award, Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chinese, Chinese Room, computers, COSM 2023, human beings, human intelligence, John Searle, Ray Kurzweil, understanding}

Passing the Turing Test Is No Guarantee of True AI

_{Casey Luskin
November 9, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A person who speaks no Chinese whatsoever inhabits a room full of file cabinets full of questions and answers — all written in Chinese. Read More ›

Mount Rushmore

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 9, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Amazonia, beavers, fairy circles, forests, Gutzon Borglum, Harvard University, Jackson Pollock, LIDAR, Mount Rushmore, New Scientist, New York University, North Africa, PNAS, Rube Goldberg, Science (journal), The Design Inference, Tom Metcalfe, University of Portsmouth, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Ahead of New Book Edition, Geoglyphs and Natural Features Test Dembski’s Design Inference

_{David Coppedge
November 9, 2023

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Designed features can hide in plain sight. A closer look can sometimes reveal the intentional acts of a mind. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
November 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, bacterial flagellum, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, convergent evolution, Emily Reeves, evidence, evolution, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, KEBDA, preconditions, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), University of Helsinki, William A. Dembski}

Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? First Check the Data

_{Stephen Dilley
November 9, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Is mainstream evolutionary theory compatible with a biology-based argument for intelligent design? Theologian Rope Kojonen believes that it is. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Academy Award, artificial intelligence, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bible, computer scientists, COSM 2023, Discovery Institute, futurists, Google, Hamas, Isaiah, Judeo-Christian tradition, killing, Michael Keas, morality, Ray Kurzweil, Seattle, Singularity, Skynet, The Imitation Game, The Matrix, transhumanism, Turing test}

Ray Kurzweil Predicts: The “Singularity” by 2045

_{Casey Luskin
November 8, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Under Kurzweil’s transhumanist vision of the future, AI promises us superhuman capabilities complete with heaven on earth and eternal life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 8, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brains, Cambrian Explosion, cephalopods, chimpanzees, chromosomes, evolution, evolutionary tree, intelligence, mammals, Marine Biological Laboratory, octopuses, oscillations, RNA editing, suckers, Tel Aviv University, worms}

Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Place in the Evolutionary Tree?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 8, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost "alien" species. Read More ›