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The Dessert Cart Paradox — A “Gaping Hole in Evolutionary Theory”

There’s a problem with evolution by “natural selection” that’s indicated in the very words themselves, as biologist Doug Axe points out. Read More ›
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Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›
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Photo: No, this elephant did not sketch a self-portrait; by Deror Avi [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Myth of “Deep Learning”

This is pathetic, and this is what is supposed to lay waste and supersede human intelligence? Read More ›
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Cells Use Loop Extrusion to Keep DNA Optimized

A paper illustrates the action of DNA loop extrusion processes, which serve multiple functions to maintain the genome, with an interesting graphic: gears. Read More ›
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Photo: Wolf-Ekkehard and wife and dog in his back yard in Köln, by Granville Sewell.

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Read More ›
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Photo: A therapy session with ELIZA, by Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, Calif., CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Artificial Intelligence Understands by Not Understanding

The ELIZA program, acting as a Rogerian therapist, simply mirrors back to the human what the human says. Read More ›
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Hawking zero gravity
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Meyer: Quantum Cosmology, the Multiverse, and Stephen Hawking

Newton, Kepler, and other founders of modern science were inspired to search out and find the rational order hidden in nature because they were theists. Read More ›
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Meyer: Why the Return of the God Hypothesis?

What is the “God hypothesis”? What happened to it, and when, so that it needed to stage a dramatic return? Read More ›
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Automated Driving and Other Failures of AI

It would be interesting to see what fully automated driving would look like in a place like Moldova. Read More ›
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Artificial Intelligence: Unseating the Inevitability Narrative

World-class chess, Go, and Jeopardy-playing programs are impressive, but they prove nothing about whether computers can be made to achieve AGI. Read More ›

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