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An Intelligent Design Addendum to AI Horror in Connecticut

Once the AI determines your preferred viewpoint, it will tell you what the algorithm "thinks" that you want to hear. Read More ›
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Settled Science Is Becoming Radically Unsettled: Get Ready for Revolutions

It might be early to say whether Richard Sternberg's calculations are correct — but the point is, this kind of calculation is only just becoming possible. Read More ›
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Human Evolution by the Numbers: Chatbot Weighs In

The Darwinian story of human evolution from an ape-like creature is probably the most powerful modern secular myth. Read More ›
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Let’s Throw Mathematical Light on the Origin of Life

If researchers really were making progress, wouldn’t that mean they would be converging on the same truth? Yet they are not. Read More ›
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Specified Complexity and a Tale of Ten Malibus

The validity of these estimates and the degree to which they can be refined can be disputed. But the underlying formalism of specified complexity is rock solid. Read More ›
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George Gilder: Can a Computer Model a Brain?

"The brain is not billions of little computers. It vastly exceeds the most powerful computers in efficiency but it is not directed to calculation as such." Read More ›
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Rankled by Mount Fuji, Darwinist Jeffrey Shallit Offers Little Self-Refuting Black Holes

Dr. Marks is obviously right. A sculpture has more information than the raw material from which the image was sculpted. Read More ›
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Wistar: Been There, Done That

Would it, in fact, be enlightening if you were to sit a Darwinist and a Darwin skeptic together for an extended period of time to talk and see what really lies at the bottom of their disagreement? Read More ›
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Evolution by Blind Guidance Is Really Just Unguided Evolution

As a theistic evolutionist, Hans Vodder thinks God may well have used Darwinian evolution to create the full diversity of life. Read More ›
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The Dependency Graph Hypothesis — How It Is Inferred

Ewert proposes that life is best explained not by Darwin’s hypothesis of an ancestry tree, but by a modern design-inspired hypothesis. Read More ›

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