Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial life, avida, Conservation of Information, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Hamlet, information, intelligence, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Peter Medawar, Santa Fe Institute, The Blind Watchmaker, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William Shakespeare}

Conservation of Information — The Idea

_{William A. Dembski
June 30, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary biology, fairy tales, humans, just-so stories, soul, Stephen Jay Gould, storytelling}

Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?

_{Michael Egnor
June 29, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, agnostics, atheism, churches, culture, Eric Metaxas, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, New Atheists, Professor Dave, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, scientific evidence, secularism, social media, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, theism, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, YouTubers}

Meyer, Metaxas: A Shifting Landscape for Science and Religion

_{David Klinghoffer
June 29, 2022

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Sneering YouTube and social media atheists are influencing young people more than the New Atheists of yore. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arthur Hunt, bacteria, BIO-Complexity, chloroquine resistance, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), James Shapiro, Jason Rosenhouse, Kenneth Miller, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, Nature (journal), On the Origin of Species, Plasmodium falciparum, probabilities, The Edge of Evolution, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, University of Chicago}

Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

_{William A. Dembski
June 29, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, actuators, dandelions, Darwinians, humidity, hummingbirds, Illustra Media, Imperial College London, intelligent design, Japan, Madagascar, moths, Nature Communications, On the Origin of Species, Paul Nelson, PLOS ONE, seals, spider silk, spiders, thermostats, University of Bristol, 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, The Imitation Game, Turing test}

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
, Cambridge University Press, coin toss, complexity, complexity theory, Darwinists, evolution, Francis Crick, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Maynard Smith, Leo Kadanoff, Leslie Orgel, natural selection, Paul Davies, poker, 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}

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, emotions, horses, 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, intelligent design, machines, mathematician, nuclear power plants, planets, science texts, self-replicating machines, 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 ›