Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 24, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abduction, babies, Brookings Institution, computers, Erik Larson, Go (game), Harvard University, humans, inference to the best explanation, Noam Chomsky, philosophers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Willard Quine, Word and Object}

Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences

_{William A. Dembski
April 24, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

4}

If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, astrology, elitism, evolutionary theory, intelligentsia, Ivy League, materialism, New York Times, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ross Douthat, secularists, Stephen Meyer}

God Hypothesis in the Elitist’s Eye

_{Elizabeth Whately
April 23, 2021

Faith & Science

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The secularist is right to feel uncomfortable as he mouths a theistic creed. Theists, for their part, should respect this reluctance. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, anthropologists, anti-Semitism, Arthur Schopenhauer, biologists, Cambridge University Press, Christa Schroeder, Christianity, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, human evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, living space, Mein Kampf, Michael Ruse, militarism, Nazism, racial struggle, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

New Book: Social Darwinism and “The Hitler Problem”

_{Richard Weikart
April 23, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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I have clearly argued in all my works that Hitler was an eclectic thinker who drew on many different intellectual influences — some of them contradictory. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Are We Spiritual Machines?, baseball, conferences, Erik Larson, First Things, George Gilder, Jay Richards, Ray Kurzweil, Telecosm, The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

“Are We Spiritual Machines?”

_{William A. Dembski
April 23, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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The event at which I moderated the discussion about Ray Kurzweil’s book was the 1998 George Gilder Telecosm conference. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Biola University, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, discount, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, molecular biology, natural selection, restaurants, Undeniable (book)}

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

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt}

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

_{Richard Weikart
April 22, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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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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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer science, deep learning, elephant, Erik Larson, human intelligence, Neural Networks, philosophers, programmers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, understanding, Wikipedia}

The Myth of “Deep Learning”

_{William A. Dembski
April 22, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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This is pathetic, and this is what is supposed to lay waste and supersede human intelligence? Read More ›

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Date
April 21, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chromatin, cohesin, DNA, double helix, enhancers, enzymes, genome, intelligent design, loop extrusion, molecular motors, Nature (journal), nucleus, promoters, repair}

Cells Use Loop Extrusion to Keep DNA Optimized

_{Science and Culture
April 21, 2021

Intelligent Design

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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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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
April 21, 2021

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Zoology
Tagged
, angiosperms, Cambrian Explosion, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, convergence, creator, Darwinists, Free University, Gestalt, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Köln, logos, Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Mexico, Michael Behe, mousetrap, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, Second Law of Thermodynamics, United States, University of Bonn, Utricularia, Wistar Symposium, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

_{Granville Sewell
April 21, 2021

Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Zoology

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Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 21, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer programming, ELIZA program, Erik Larson, Eugene Goostman, humans, Joseph Weizenbaum, psychologists, relationships, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, University of Illinois}

Artificial Intelligence Understands by Not Understanding

_{William A. Dembski
April 21, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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The ELIZA program, acting as a Rogerian therapist, simply mirrors back to the human what the human says. Read More ›