Tag: Animal Algorithms

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Alistair Evans, Animal Algorithms, bird beaks, Current Biology, David Klinghoffer, eagle, enthalpy, entropy, eukaryotes, evolutionary biologists, Evolutionary Game Theory, godwit, Gutenberg University, humidity, John Harte, Kathleen Garland, mice, Monash University, Murphy’s Laws of Technology, ostrich, phase transition, photosynthesis, physics, physics envy, Plato's Revenge, pressure, Richard Sternberg, spoonbill, teleology, temperature, The Conversation, volume, Weasel program}

Physics Envy Is Not Helping Evolutionary Biology

_{David Coppedge
April 30, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Biology is very different from physics. But if living things are entirely describable by atoms and forces, shouldn’t laws of physics apply to them, too? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 23, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, beaches, birds, Caretta caretta, compass, declination, destination, inclination, intelligent design, intensity, loggerhead turtles, magnetic field, magnetic signature, magnetoreception, map coordinates, memory, migration, Nature (journal), navigation, North Pole, radio frequency, sea turtles, South Pole}

Sea Turtles and Their Trusty Magnetic Compass

_{Eric Cassell
April 23, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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All of these elements exhibit specified complexity that is indicative of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, atheism, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, lab animals, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity, touch response}

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 3, 2025

Categories
Applied Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abortion, Animal Algorithms, bacterial flagella, Biomimetics, cable bacteria, centrioles, Current Biology, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, engineers, Eric Cassell, evolution, fetuses, Harvard University, intelligent design, Living Waters, mantis shrimp, materials science, Michael Behe, molecular machines, navigation, New Scientist, nose, PNAS, sea turtles, sophistication, springtails, super-resolution microscopy, University of North Carolina, University of Oldenburg}

As Science Observes, Talk of Evolution Fades

_{David Coppedge
March 3, 2025

Applied Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Another point worthy of note: the more sophistication that is found in biological engineering, the more scientists want to imitate it. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 20, 2024

Categories
Botany
Ecology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, animals, biofilm, calendars, caterpillars, Current Biology, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian evolution, evolution, foresight, intelligent design, natural selection, pandemics, Phenology, physiology, PNAS, Robert Shedinger, seasons, sensors, Stonehenge, temperature}

Phenology: The Science of Seasonal Adaptation

_{David Coppedge
May 20, 2024

Botany, Ecology, Intelligent Design

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No, not phrenology — phenology. It’s not pseudoscience, but a lesser-known branch of science that includes birds, bees, and trees. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 16, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, brain, Current Biology, distance, geometry, gravity, hive, honey bees, information processing, Lars Chittka, navigation, Neural Networks, travel distance, waggle dance}

New Study Reveals Secrets of Honey Bee Waggle Dance

_{Eric Cassell
April 16, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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There are several factors that make detecting direction challenging for the observing bees. One is that the dances take place inside a dark hive. Read More ›

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Date
February 17, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, anternet, ants, bees, Biosphere 2, communication, Deborah M. Gordon, entomologists, Eric Cassell, Europe, exoskeleton, intelligence, pheromones, space exploration, Stanford University, termites, wasps}

Ants “Think” Differently from Humans

_{Science and Culture
February 17, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

There are some 20 quadrillion ants living in the world today. All species of ants are social; there are no known solitary ants. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
January 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, bats, birds, common design, convergent evolution, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, Europe, geomagnetic field, George McGhee, intelligent agents, magnetic compass, mammals, navigation, paleontologists, polarization, Royal Society, sunlight}

In Bats and Other Animals, Evidence of Common Design in a Magnetic Compass

_{Eric Cassell
January 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There has been little data previously to confirm that mammals navigate long distances using the earth’s geomagnetic field. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, animals, ant colony, artificial intelligence, behaviors, calculus, David Berlinski, foraging, humans, intelligent design, navigation, Neural Networks, nucleic acids, optimization, pheromones, proteins, Science After Babel, Traveling Salesman Problem}

Can Algorithms Designed by Humans Catch Up with the Genius of Biological Systems?

_{Eric Cassell
August 1, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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While humans invented algorithms only within the last century, enabling the development of AI, animals exhibit behavioral algorithms that long predate humans. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, Animal Algorithms, astrobiology, atheism, Brian Koberlein, convergent evolution, crop circles, design filter, Eric Cassell, evolution, hexagons, intelligent design, intuition, PLOS Biology, pulsars, radio signals, Return of the God Hypothesis, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, SETI, The Conversation, UAPs, UC Berkeley, UFOlogy, UFOs, unidentified anomalous phenomena, Utah}

In Explanations Reported by Mainstream Science, Design Inference Continues to Factor

_{David Coppedge
July 31, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Speaking of regularly spaced circles, I observed something similar in southern Utah from a helicopter in 2019 (see the photo at the top). Read More ›