Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, cancer, cancer cluster, Design Inference, earth, lawyer, life, multiverse, Paul Sutter, universe, Universe Today}

From Astrophysicist Paul Sutter — Multiverse Madness!

_{Casey Luskin
February 1, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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I’ve argued that “multiverse thinking” destroys scientific logic. My argument involves a hypothetical “cancer cluster” in a town with a chemical plant. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Anthony Costello, Arizona State University, biologists, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, creative agency, debates, Harvard University, ID the Future, James Tour, Kirkwood Center, Lee Cronin, Lenny Esposito, materialistic science, natural selection, Owen Anderson, Rice University, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Meyer, University of Glasgow}

Evolution’s Demigods: Reviewing the Tour vs. Cronin Debate

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 1, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Says Brian Miller, “What a lot of origin-of-life people do is talk about natural selection as a demigod with creative agency." Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan Turing, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, Bertrand Russell, California, Christianity, computational power, David Hilbert, elementary particles, eternity, Gregory of Nyssa, humans, Marvin Minsky, Nick Bostrom, oscillating universe, Ray Kurzweil, The Design Inference, theology}

Artificial General Intelligence: Digital vs. Traditional Immortality

_{William A. Dembski
February 1, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gregory of Nyssa taught that eternity for humanity is an unending progression in the knowledge of God. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Amazonia, archaeologists, BBC News, Darwin's Finches, Ecuador, fitness landscapes, Galápagos Islands, Gaussian curves, geoglyphs, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Jonathan Wells, LIDAR, Light Detection and Ranging, NASA, New Scientist, PNAS, rainforest, The Conversation, The Design Inference, Zombie Science (book)}

Hidden, Now Revealed: Amazonia, Fitness Landscapes, and Fibonacci Numbers

_{David Coppedge
January 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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The caption for one image of spiral galaxy NGC 628 notes: “The spiraling filamentary structure looks somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus shell.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, cancel culture, Casey Luskin, Dave Farina, debates, Elon Musk, evolutionists, Harvard University, ID the Future, James Tour, Ohio State University, Paul Sutter, Professor Dave, Rice University, Twitter, Universe Today, X (platform), YouTubers}

On the Origin of Life, Astrophysicist Paul Sutter Seems to Agree with James Tour

_{David Klinghoffer
January 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom

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Quick, let's tweet that to Professor Dave — oh, wait... His account on the X platform has been suspended. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", biopolymers, chemical evolution, DNA, Energy, evolution, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, lipids, living systems, molecular machines, Ohio State University, Paul Sutter, proteins, replication, RNA, self-replication, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Universe Today, Walter Bradley}

Astrophysicist: “We Do Not Yet Know How, Where, or Why Life First Appeared”

_{Casey Luskin
January 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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It’s good to find another scientist — with no connections to intelligent design — who sees the issue so clearly. 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
Subboor Ahmad

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Social Sciences
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, agnostics, Angus Menuge, Christians, Darwinism, Debating Design, Elliott Sober, epigenetics, evolution, genomics, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, Michael Ruse, Muslims, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, New Atheism, Paul Davies, podcast, problems, puzzles, Richard Swinburne, Robert Pennock, self-organization, Stuart Kauffman, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

Dembski and Ruse Look Back on 20 Years of Debate — And a Special Anniversary

_{Subboor Ahmad
January 30, 2024

Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Social Sciences

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The protest about the “spectre of intelligent design” was telling. When critics start talking that way, you can’t help wondering if ID is onto something. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, aboutness, Allen Institute for Brain Science, awareness, Christof Koch, consciousness, Franz Brentano, ignorance, intentionality, Ludwig Wittgenstein, M. R. Bennett, neuroscience, P. M. S. Hacker, panpsychism, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Socrates, subjective experience, wisdom}

Leading Neuroscientist Wavers on Physical View of Consciousness

_{Michael Egnor
January 30, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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"Consciousness cannot be explained only within the framework of space and time and energy, but we need to postulate something additional — experience.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aboutness, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, autism, B. F. Skinner, ChatGPT, chess, DeepMind, Elon Musk, Erik Larson, G.K. Chesterton, Go (game), human bodies, idolatry, large language models, Luddites, machines, Noam Chomsky, rabbits, René Descartes, self-driving cars, Tesla, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Willard Quine, Word and Object, words}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus

_{William A. Dembski
January 30, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language. Read More ›