Tag: aesthetics

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 9, 2025

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aesthetics, AI slop, algorithms, articles, artificial intelligence, books, business, Center for Science and Culture, creative writing, culture, headlines, human exceptionalism, humans, Javanese, Krakatoa, large language models, life coach, machines, Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot, Mind Matters, nonsense, personal assistant, Peter Biles, photographs, Plato's Revenge, podcasts, Ted Gioia, writers}

A Needed Protest Against “AI Slop” and AI “Word Vomit”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 9, 2025

Arts, Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s all another lesson in human exceptionalism. I believe we will wake up from the AI delusion someday. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aesthetics, birds, childhood, ears, emotions, evolutionary adaptation, hearing, lyrics, medicine, mental health, mind, music, planets, Plato, pulsars, soul, sound waves, speech, sun, UC Berkeley, YouTube videos}

The Human Mind Is Wired for Music: How Did That Come About?

_{Eric Hedin
August 22, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Most of us can correctly remember melodies and lyrics learned in childhood, even years after last having heard them. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
December 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, "poor design", Abby Hafer, abuse, aesthetics, aging, breathing, choking, communication, constraints, degeneration, disease, epiglottis, esophagus, evolution, evolutionists, gastrointestinal system, intelligent design, larynx, lungs, multiple sclerosis, Nathan Lents, Parkinson’s disease, pharynx, respiratory system, singing, speech, stroke, syllogism, tongue, trade-offs}

The Supposed Bad Design of the Human Pharynx

_{Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann
December 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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The pharynx affords us the abilities to breathe and swallow, but it does much more. It affords the ability for speech, language, and singing. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, aesthetics, extraterrestrial life, Galileo Galilei, Harvard University, heliocentric model, intelligent design, James Ferguson, Luther College, Nicolaus Copernicus, Owen Gingerich, physicists, Ptolemaic system, religion, solar system, telescope, University of Wisconsin}

Religious Intuition Can Lead to Scientific Discovery: The Cases of Copernicus and Ferguson

_{Robert Shedinger
November 30, 2022

Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Science

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ID is not religion. But even if we were to concede falsely that it is, such a characterization is irrelevant to the question of whether it is true. Read More ›

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Date
November 3, 2022

Categories
Fine-tuning
Geology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aesthetics, atmosphere, atmospheric gases, Casey Luskin, earth, fitness, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, water}

Geologist Casey Luskin: Our Intelligently Designed Planet

_{Science and Culture
November 3, 2022

Fine-tuning, Geology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Dr. Luskin offers an additional design argument, this one aesthetic in nature, and takes questions from the audience. Read More ›

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Date
August 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Culture
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, aesthetics, divine intervention, evolution, faith, ID the Future, intelligent design, Matthew Ramage, Michael Behe, Moon, natural laws, nature, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, Roman Catholic, scientists, stars, sun, theology}

Michael Behe: It’s Not a Scientist’s Job to Be Led by Aesthetics

_{Science and Culture
August 29, 2022

Biology, Culture, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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While the sun, moon, and stars move according to natural laws, it doesn’t follow that the complex forms we find in biology arose purely through natural laws. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 3, 2020

Categories
Ethics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, aesthetics, Cambridge University, Duke University, E.O. Wilson, Freeman Dyson, intelligent design, miracles, New York Times, pseudoscience, scientists, Signature in the Cell, telepathy, The New York Review of Books, The Scientist as Rebel, Wendell Berry}

Remembering Freeman Dyson and the Enduring Lesson of “Dyson’s Hypothesis”

_{Michael Flannery
March 3, 2020

Ethics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

6}

Dyson points out that the highly improbable is actually quite probable by invoking “Littlewood’s law of miracles.” Read More ›

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Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, aesthetics, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Elliott Sober, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Karl Popper, materialists, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Nature (journal), Phillip E. Johnson, philosophers, PNAS, science, selection, Summer Seminars, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Nagel, William Whewell}

Philosophers Want Back into Science

_{Science and Culture
April 11, 2019

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

8}

One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›

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Date
January 29, 2019

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", aesthetics, Ann Gauger, anthropomorphism, beauty, biologists, Charles Darwin, Cinderella, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, Ferris Jabr, fitness, flowers, genes, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, love, materialism, Michael Behe, natural selection, ornithology, physiology, Richard Prum, sexual selection, Undeniable (book), Zombie Science (book)}

Mission Impossible: Darwinizing Beauty

_{Science and Culture
January 29, 2019

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The ease of ascribing beauty to intelligent design contrasts with the impossibility of explaining its origin by material causes. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 12, 2018

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, aesthetics, Ann Gauger, architecture, balance, beauty, evolution, evolutionary theory, face, function, humans, intellect, intelligent design, Michael Denton, Neanderthals, science, soul, spandrel, The Biology of the Baroque, The Conversation}

The Chin Enigma

_{David Klinghoffer
December 12, 2018

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A scientific theory that on principle refuses to see the obvious is an achievement of which only humans are capable. Read More ›