Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, actuators, dandelion seeds, dandelions, Darwinians, humidity, hummingbirds, Illustra Media, Imperial College London, intelligent design, Japan, Madagascar, moths, Nature Communications, On the Origin of Species, orb webs, pappus, Paul Nelson, PLOS ONE, seals, silk glands, spider silk, spiders, thermostats, University of Bristol, whiskers, Wikipedia, Yale University}

Dandelions, Darwin’s Bark Spider, and More: No Shortage of Biological Wonders

_{David Coppedge
June 28, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Those of us who find purpose in biology instead of random tinkering will not run out of material to get excited about any time soon. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, chatbot, computer science, computers, creativity, English, Eugene Goostman, Go (game), Lord Byron, machines, Non-Computable You, programmers, Selmer Bringsjord, software, swarms, The Imitation Game, Turing test, Ukrainians}

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 28, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Lady Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic information theory, arrow, Cambridge University Press, coin toss, complexity, complexity theory, Darwinists, dissertation, evolution, fair coin, Francis Crick, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Maynard Smith, Leo Kadanoff, Leslie Orgel, natural selection, Paul Davies, Philosophia Christi, poker, probabilistic complexity, probability, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, royal flush, Skeptical Inquirer, specification, specified complexity, target, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, UC Irvine, University of Notre Dame, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Jason Rosenhouse and Specified Complexity

_{William A. Dembski
June 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Not all patterns eliminate chance in the presence of improbability. Take an arrow shot at a target. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, automobiles, Bellevue, Daniel Reeves, Discovery Institute, evolution, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, Ohio, Politics, Seattle, vaccine, Volkswagen}

Intelligent Design Gets Its Own Car

_{David Klinghoffer
June 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Our colleague Daniel Reeves, a VW fan, points out Volkswagen’s ID series. Yep, it stands for "intelligent design." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, arthritis, birds, children, emotional contagion, emotions, folklore, hermit crabs, horses, inequality, mammals, New York Times, pigs, privilege, reality, Salon, social justice, squirrels, The College Fix, World Economic Forum}

Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 27, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Researchers have long assumed that people think like animals. But now we see that the equation reads the same in reverse: animals think like people. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Reproductive Science
Technology
Tagged
, airplanes, cars, computers, duplication errors, engineers, evolution, Ford Model T, intelligent design, machines, mathematician, nuclear power plants, planets, science texts, self-replicating machines, self-replicator, smart phones, unintelligent forces}

More on Self-Replicating Machines

_{Granville Sewell
June 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Reproductive Science, Technology

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We know how to build a simple Ford Model T car. Now let’s build a factory inside this car, so that it can produce Model T cars automatically. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, co-option, coevolution, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary pathways, Goldilocks Zone, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, Michael Behe, No Free Lunch, probabilities, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Jason Rosenhouse and “Mathematical Proof”

_{William A. Dembski
June 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwinists have always hidden behind the complexities of biological systems. As always, they assume no burden of proof. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 26, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adrenaline, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, computer science, DNA, emotions, engineers, feelings, free will, Google, human cells, imagination, Isaac Asimov, LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, life, love, machines, materialists, René Descartes, self-awareness, sentience, software, soul, Stanford University, toaster, Washington Post, William Hurlbut}

Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 26, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program "sentient." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, activists, assisted suicide, common law, Constitution, courts, Dobbs v. Jackson, Due Process Clause, euthanasia, Fourteenth Amendment, history, hubris, law, Supreme Court, Washington v. Glucksberg}

How Euthanasia Activists Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Roe

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 25, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe–style decision for their cause. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, brain, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, crime, criminal justice, criminals, criminologists, criminology, Darwin Day in America, evolution, heredity, human rights, Italy, museums, phrenology, prisoners, skeleton, skulls, Social Darwinism, Turin}

In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso

_{John G. West
June 24, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

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Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked. Read More ›