Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, antennae, Baltic amber, Darwinism, Eocene Epoch, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, nested hierarchy, phylogenetics, scales, thorax}

Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin

_{Günter Bechly
June 24, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary pathways, evolvability, fitness, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), hypercube, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Michael Behe, poker, Powerball, probability, protein space, Stephen Meyer, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, waiting-time problem}

Rosenhouse and Discrete Hypercube Evolution

_{William A. Dembski
June 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Why have I just gone through this exercise with the 100-dimensional discrete hypercube, giving it the full track 2 monty? Two reasons. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", algorithms, artificial intelligence, computers, consciousness, creativity, emergence, experience, human brain, immortality, mimicry, Non-Computable You, qualia, robots, sentience, Steven Spielberg, strong AI, understanding}

No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 24, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 23, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Academy Award, assisted suicide, auto accident, British Columbia, California, COVID-19, euthanasia, hospice, Italy, Jack Kevorkian, polio, quadriplegia, San Francisco Chronicle, UC Berkeley, United States}

Euthanasia’s Cruel Compassion

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 23, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

7}

Federico Carboni wanted suicide because he had no autonomy, saying in an interview, “I am like a boat adrift in the ocean.” Read More ›

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Date
June 23, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, blind evolution, culture, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian racism, evolution, Hank Hanegraaff, humans, hybrids, ID the Future, Nazi Germany, On the Origin of Species, podcast, Racism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Weikart, Science Uprising, scientific racism, The Descent of Man, United States, white nationalists}

Listen: How Darwinian Materialism Poisoned Mainstream Ethics

_{Science and Culture
June 23, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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Richard Dawkins felt free to encourage experimentation in ape-human hybrids, work that Dawkins hopes will undermine the idea that humans are anything special. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 23, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, anti-evolutionism, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary pathways, formalism, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), improbability, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, probability, protein space, proteins, sophistry, statistics}

Darwinist Turns Math Cop: Track 1 and Track 2

_{William A. Dembski
June 23, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life

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Jason Rosenhouse insists that intelligent design proponents obey his rules, but happily flouts them himself. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 22, 2022

Categories
Archaeology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, Amazon, Amazonia, communication, Design Inference, helicopter, intelligence, intelligent design, LIDAR, Light Detection and Ranging, Nature News, Nature News and Views, No Free Lunch, pyramids, spacecraft, steganography, University of Bonn, William A. Dembski}

Detected: Intelligent Designs in the Amazon Jungle

_{David Coppedge
June 22, 2022

Archaeology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Paleontology

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With LIDAR technology, the angle of incidence of a signal can reveal designs hiding in plain sight. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 22, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, BioEssays, Bruce Alberts, Darwinian pathways, Darwinism, David Hume, Dubai, E. coli, evolution, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Harvard University, Howard Berg, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, magnetotactic bacteria, moles, mountains, nanomachines, National Academy of Sciences, Rube Goldberg device, Stone Age}

From Darwinists, a Shift in Tone on Nanomachines

_{William A. Dembski
June 22, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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The shift in tone from then to now is remarkable. What happened to the awe these systems used to inspire? Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 22, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, attorneys, computers, emergency room, Google Maps, Harvard Law School, human intelligence, humans, intelligence, knowledge, lemon, Non-Computable You, physicians, qualia, Wikipedia}

The Non-Computable Human

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 22, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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An algorithm is a step-by-step set of instructions to accomplish a task. A recipe for German chocolate cake is an algorithm. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 21, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animal welfare, Blake Lemoine, Bronx Zoo, chatbot, courts, Google, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, LaMDA, New York State, Non-Computable You, personhood, PETA, Robert J. Marks II, Wesley J. Smith, Wired, Yuval Noah Harari}

Engineer: Failing to See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry”

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 21, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks’s book Non-Computable You, the story broke. Read More ›