Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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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 ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 29, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Anthony Costello, Arizona State University, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, debates, events, Harvard University, ID the Future, James Tour, Kirkwood Center, Lee Cronin, Lenny Esposito, Owen Anderson, podcast, Rice University, Stephen Dilley, University of Glasgow}

Debate Review: Jim Tour vs Lee Cronin at Harvard

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 29, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In 2021, chemist Dr. Lee Cronin declared publicly that “Origin of life research is a scam.” He later said he was only joking. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Communism, conservatism, fascism, Francis Schaeffer, Frederick Douglass, free speech, grace, Human Zoos, John West, modernism, Neo-Darwinism, religious liberty, scientific materialism, scientific racisim, slavery, The Politics of Revelation and Reason}

From Political Scientist John West: Intelligent Design’s Reverse Chameleon-ism

_{David Klinghoffer
January 29, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Our colleague John West has a handsome new website with many useful features, but I was particularly intrigued by the section headed, “Something Personal.” Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 29, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, An American Life, arms control, atheism, birds’ eggs, birthday, butterflies, capitalism, Christianity, Douglas Brinkley, evil empire, Galesburg, General Secretary, Greeks, Illinois, intelligent design, Jews, Jimmy Carter, Kremlin, Lessons My Father Taught Me, Mars, Michael Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow, Moslems, National Prayer Breakfast, notetaker, Otangelo Grasso, Paul Kengor, political freedom, Protestants, Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Red Square, Romans, Ron Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Russian Orthodox Church, Soviet Union, St. Catherine’s Hall, The Notes, The Reagan Diaries, U.S. Constitution, Ukrainian Catholics, Whittaker Chambers, Witness}

Ronald Reagan’s Deeply Personal Argument for Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
January 29, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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An untold story from the final year of Reagan’s Presidency about science, faith, and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), Arthur C. Clarke, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, Back to the Future, Blaise Pascal, Book of Job, Cambridge University, Darwinian evolution, Dune, Erika DeBenedictis, Ezekiel, Frank Herbert, Garden of Eden, gravity, H.G. Wells, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, Isaiah, large language models, Lucifer, Old Testament, Reformation, Satan, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Time Machine, wormholes, Yuval Harari}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator

_{William A. Dembski
January 28, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Compassion & Choices, death cult, dehydration, Dutch News, dying, harm reduction, hospice, lips, Netherlands, palliative care, self-starving, suicide, Terri Schiavo, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Now Doctors to Help Younger People Commit Suicide by Self-Starvation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 28, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Of course, we in the U.S. have our own such issues, even beyond pernicious VSED advocacy. Read More ›

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Date
January 27, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, atheism, Darwinism, ID the Future, interview, multiverse, Occam's Razor, philosophers, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, theism}

Andrew Klavan and Stephen Meyer Talk God and Science

_{Science and Culture
January 27, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Meyer and Klavan discuss a noted atheist philosopher who frankly admits that he doesn’t want theism to be true. Read More ›

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Date
January 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, apologetics, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, David Berlinski, Eric Metaxas, events, john lennox, John West, Politics, Rainier Club, scientism, Socrates in the City, Stephen C. Meyer, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Magician's Twin}

C. S. Lewis on Science Abuse: Join Eric Metaxas and John West for Socrates in the City, Feb. 8 in Seattle

_{Science and Culture
January 26, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Lewis was a critic of the growing power of scientism, the effort to apply science to areas outside its bounds. His writing on this couldn't be timelier. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, common descent, crown group, Darwinian evolution, entomology, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, monophyly, morphology, Neo-Darwinism, Paleocene, paleoentomology, paleontology, phylogeny, polyphyly, stem group, stratigraphy, systematics, technical papers, Tree of Life}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals

_{Günter Bechly
January 26, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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We can conclude that Eulipotyphla appeared abruptly in the Paleocene about 66-61.7 million years ago. Read More ›