Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, computers, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary computation, generations, genetic programming, John Koza, Kolmogorov complexity, programmers, software, Turing Machine, Turing test}

The State of the Art in Evolutionary Computation

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 16, 2020

Evolution

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As with early AI, the claims are inflated, unsupported, and the solutions do not scale to real world problems. Perhaps an EA “winter” is long overdue. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayes’ Theorem, Bayesian reasoning, belief, biological design, designer, evidence, Evolution News, human agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Life Sciences, Lydia McGrew, objections to intelligent design, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, suboptimality}

The Advantages of a Bayesian Approach to ID

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 16, 2020

Intelligent Design

4}

Lydia McGrew gives the analogy that there is always a possibility that prehistoric civilizations did not have the ability or desire to make arrowheads. Read More ›

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, computers, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, John Koza, Moore’s law, natural selection, neuroevolution, Sudoku}

On Evolutionary Computation

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 15, 2020

Evolution

9}

From the early 1950s, multiple well-documented attempts to make Darwin’s algorithm work on a computer have been published. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 15, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, agnosticism, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, anti-science, atheism, Ayn Rand, cancel culture, censorship, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, evolution, Expelled (movie), free speech, Jonathan Wells, Lysenkoism, Marxism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Napoleon, Phillip E. Johnson, Pierre-Simon Laplace, resistance, Richard Sternberg, Robert Pollack, totalitarianism, William A. Dembski, woke mob}

“Live Not by Lies”: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

_{Michael Egnor
July 15, 2020

Scientific Freedom

11}

The censors depend on active personal destruction not to silence us, but to get us (out of fear) to lie and thus silence ourselves. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Alpha Centauri, Bayes’ Theorem, cosmic fine-tuning, hydrogen, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, jackpot, living cells, Lydia McGrew, objections to intelligent design, prior probability, probability, Volkswagen Beetle}

Applying Bayes’ Theorem to Biological Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 15, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy

4}

Suppose we want to know the odds that a particular individual won last week’s Mega Millions jackpot in the United States. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academia, Bari Weiss, censorship, Darwinism, discrimination, dissent, Douglas Axe, Eric Hedin, Free Science, free speech, Granville Sewell, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, journalists, Michael Egnor, New York Times, Richard Sternberg, scientists, Scott Minnich, self-censorship, Smithsonian Institution}

Bari Weiss Knows What ID Scientists Already Knew

_{David Klinghoffer
July 14, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Advocates of intelligent design have experienced the lengths to which upholders of the “predetermined narrative” will go to punish dissent. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Bayes’ Theorem, Boston, debate, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, Jonathan M., Newcastle University, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, readers, Sattler College}

Welcome Back, Jonathan McLatchie, and Congratulations!

_{David Klinghoffer
July 14, 2020

Evolution

1}

As of January 2020, Jonathan M. is now Dr. Jonathan McLatchie. He earned a PhD in evolutionary biology from the Biosciences Institute at Newcastle University. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Epistemology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayes’ Theorem, Big Bang, biological design, cosmic fine-tuning, evidence, helium, hydrogen, intelligent design, life, likelihood, Luke Barnes, Lydia McGrew, ministers, Philosophia Christi, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Bayes, Timothy McGrew, William A. Dembski, William Lane Craig}

A Bayesian Approach to Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 14, 2020

Epistemology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

5}

I have come to think of evidence in Bayesian terms and this has in turn impacted the way I think about the biological arguments for ID. Read More ›

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial life, Charles Darwin, computer science, Darwinian algorithm, evolution, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Gregory Chaitin, sex}

What Can and Can’t Darwin’s Algorithm Compute?

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 14, 2020

Evolution

4}

A number of seminal papers have been published attempting to formalize Darwin’s biological theory from the point of view of computational sciences. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Artificial Selection, barnacles, Barry Gale, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, Charles Darwin, college students, Douglas Futuyma, Ecuador, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary theory, Fleeming Jenkin, Galápagos Islands, George Gaylord Simpson, John Gould, Loren Eiseley, materialistic science, methodological naturalism, neo-Darwinian synthesis, On the Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Strickberger’s Evolution, Thomas Huxley}

Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 14, 2020

Biology, Evolution

8}

Just because something can be counted as science does not automatically mean that it is true. Read More ›