Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Australia, birds, brain, Canada, cephalopods, consciousness, crickets, Dogs, evolution, intelligence, Japan, Korea, London School of Economics, mammals, Mediterranean, memory, My Octopus Teacher, New Zealand, octopuses, spinal cord, vertebrates, warm-bloodedness}

If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agriculturalists, Basil Willey, breeders, Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, faith, Gaia, George Levine, goddess, Janet Browne, literature, metaphor, Mother Nature, natural preservation, nature, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Robert J. Richards, Stephen Jay Gould}

Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

_{Neil Thomas
July 14, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bilaterians, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Charles Marshall, citrate, Current Biology, David Klinghoffer, Debating Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, evolution, gene regulatory networks, Graham Budd, intelligent design, James Valentine, Maximilian Telford, phenotypes, Precambrian, Richard Lenski, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, Uppsala University, Vernanimalcula}

On Cambrian Explosion, Biology Journal’s Special Issue Betrays Cause for Darwin Doubts

_{David Coppedge
July 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The strength of a theory can be gauged by how well it stands up to attacks and how well it incorporates new evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Amanda Witt

Date
July 13, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence, brain, computers, creativity, divine image, Elon Musk, emotion, heart, hormones, humans, humor, machines, mercy, neurons, Non-Computable You, programmers, qualia, religion, Robert J. Marks II, Siri, software, soul, Stephen Hawking, understanding, wetware}

The Difference Between Humans and Machines

_{Amanda Witt
July 13, 2022

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Why do news headlines continually suggest that AI is practically human already, and soon will become fully human? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 13, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer science, computers, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, faith, human beings, J. Budziszewski, John West, materialism, media, Non-Computable You, public education, public policy, Robert J. Marks II, scientists, seductive optics, William A. Dembski, YouTube videos}

Marks, Dembski: AI Hype and the “Illusion of Possibility”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 13, 2022

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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The materialist agenda is served by AI hype, while the human mission is damaged. And that is what is at stake. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
July 12, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Buddhist monks, eye contact, Frankenstein, Kannon, Mary Shelley, Mindar, packaging, robots, seductive optics, uncanny valley, YouTube videos}

Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 12, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting, Technology

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Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging. Read More ›

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Date
July 12, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), Design Inference, DNA, extra-terrestrial intelligence, Gifford lectures, ID the Future, intelligent design, Paul Nelson, podcast, radio signals, science fiction, theism}

Carl Sagan’s Love/Hate Relationship with Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
July 12, 2022

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Philosopher of science Paul Nelson explores an intriguing tension in the thinking of the famous scientist and science popularizer. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial flagellum, co-evolution, conjugation, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwin Devolves, degeneration, devolution, evolution, genes, Gram-negative bacteria, intelligent design, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Nature (journal), proteins, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, T3SS, The Miracle of Man, University College London}

Scientists Reveal Bacterial T4SS “Biogenesis Machinery”

_{David Coppedge
July 12, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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With cryo-electron microscopy, scientists have zoomed in on a molecular machine that is very different from the Type III Secretion System. Read More ›

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Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, aliens, Big Think, Elon Musk, Future of Humanity Institute, intelligent aliens, Marcelo Gleiser, Martin Rees, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nick Bostrom, Oxford University, simulation, simulation theory, The Island of Knowledge}

Physicist: Why the “Alien Simulation” Hypothesis Is Bunk

_{Science and Culture
July 11, 2022

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Assuming that the regression does not continue endlessly, only the First Simulator is real. But then, why do any simulators even bother? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", ADHD, competition, depression, education, evolution, heart disease, human agency, human evolution, lizards, moths, natural selection, poverty, undirected process, United Kingdom, University of East Anglia}

“Human Evolution” Is a Misnomer

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 11, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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A new study claims that “natural selection” is making society more unequal because it is favoring those with poorer education and lower earnings. Read More ›