Tag: calculus

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 6, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, biochemistry, C. H. Waddington, calculus, Christopher Hitchens, complexity, Daniel Dennett, Darwin’s Black Box, E. O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Joseph Woodger, M.-P. Schützenberger, mechanism, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, Michael Ruse, Neo-Darwinism, Nicolas Rashevsky, Richard Dawkins, Robert Rosen, scientific materialism, UC Berkeley, UCSF, UT MD Anderson}

Restoring Our Vision: Michael Behe and Darwin’s Black Box

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 6, 2026

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

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What has always stirred me with a deep set of conflicting emotions is his reference to the “elephant in the room.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 6, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, art, atoms, calculus, Carlo Rovelli, chimpanzees, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Dogs, electrons, great apes, higher power, human consciousness, human language, humans, intelligent design, language, laughter, literature, Michael Egnor, mud, panpsychism, Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland, sand dollar, speech, squirrels, trees, universe}

Human Consciousness, from Mud to Mind?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 6, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

If human language — which is unlike any other communication in nature — evolved from something, we simply have no idea what that something is. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 27, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, background knowledge, Bayesian formalism, Bayesian reasoning, belief, Big Bang, calculus, conditionalization, cosmology, deductive logic, Dutch book arguments, fine-tuning, Fisherian hypothesis testing, inference to the best explanation, John Maynard Keynes, logic, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, null distributions, philosophy, precession, probability, propositions, psychological states, rejection regions, Sean Carroll, Socrates, subjective interpretation, syllogism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series)}

The Objective Probability of the Fine-Tuning Evidence

_{Bruce Gordon
March 27, 2026

Fine-tuning, Philosophy, Physics

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Science and philosophy aim to explain aspects of the world and of our experience, and both offer judgments about what is correct or incorrect. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, A Nation at Risk, abstraction, Alex Thomas, American Mathematical Society, Beatles, Bolivia, calculus, Chicago, Claremont Graduate University, compassion, competence, courage, CRISPR, Critical Mathematics Pedagogy, Defying Low Expectations, designer babies, discipline, East Los Angeles, education, Edward James Olmos, Escalante: The Best Teacher in America, Gale Pooley, Garfield High School, George Martin, Henry Gradillas, Hispanics, inference, information, Inkwell Press, intelligence, intelligence quotient, intelligent design, Jaime Escalante, Jay Mathews, Jerry Jesness, Kappan Magazine, Lewis Terman, Los Angeles, Mary Poplin, mathematics, modeling, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, probability, Programme for International Student Assessment, reasoning, Roland Fryer, search space, Stand and Deliver, standards, test scores, University of Chicago, Wall Street Journal, William James}

Jaime Escalante: Why a Heroic Teacher Matters to Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
February 9, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Science Education

36}

Anyone who has studied the history of IQ testing and eugenics will recognize the weaponization of low expectations against people deemed inferior. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
May 31, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, calculus, Discovery Institute Press, earth, General Theory of Relativity, Georges Lemaȋtre, In the Beginning, Isaac Newton, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Nicolaus Copernicus, Nobel Prize, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, universe}

The Big Bang Simplified

_{Granville Sewell
May 31, 2024

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

11}

Since very few people understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, for most of us the Big Bang seems very mysterious and counterintuitive. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
August 1, 2023

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

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

_{Eric Cassell
August 1, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

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
Robert J. Marks II

Date
July 9, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, calculus, Euclid, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Peter Biles, plagiarism}

Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 9, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

Some think that math is invented. Evidence, though, points towards its discovery. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Planetology
Tagged
, algorithms, calculus, DNA, double helix, genetic code, Greek, incompleteness theorem, Isaac Newton, Kurt Gödel, Leo Tolstoy, mathematician, mechanics, molecular biology, particles, Sanskrit, TIME, U.S. Constitution}

Iterations of Immortality

_{David Berlinski
June 13, 2023

Evolution, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Planetology

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The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, biologists, Blaise Pascal, calculus, David Chalmers, Eucharist, materialism, naturalism, numbers, particles, physicalism, physicists, René Thom, Science After Babel, scientific revolution, scientism, theologians, Tower of Babel, transhumanism}

Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism

_{David Berlinski
June 5, 2023

Evolution, Physical Sciences

6}

Until the day before yesterday, the imperial architects of the scientific revolution were well satisfied and sleek as seals. Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, brain, calculus, consciousness, cortex, Francis Crick, human brain, mice, neuroscience, wheels}

Mice Can’t Do Calculus but Their Brains Can

_{Science & Culture
January 2, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

5}

Neuroimaging and mathematics showed that a simple Stop! signal in the brain would not allow a mouse to stop as quickly as it in fact did. Read More ›