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Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Read More ›
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Clarity, Please: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

Four Caltech scientists taught “nature” to do the “unnatural” by first isolating a microbe that lives in the hot springs of Iceland. Read More ›
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Jonathan Witt Takes Us on a Fantastic Voyage

"You’re a computer geek living thirty years in the future, and you just won a lottery for a space flight to a distant planet, as yet unnamed." Read More ›
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The Myth of “Settled Science”

Einstein was wrong. Quantum mechanics does not follow the principle of “local causality.” God apparently does play dice with the universe. Read More ›
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Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function

In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes. Read More ›
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On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer

Mutations in genes that affect body plan characteristics don’t lead to new body plans — they lead to dead embryos. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer’s Extensive Treatment of Evo-Devo 

"On arriving at Caltech in 1971, Eric Davidson chose the purple sea urchin as his experimental model system." Read More ›
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Let’s Think About a Zygote Like an Engineer

Actually, life is a series of millions of hard problems that have to be solved all the time, or else. Read More ›
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Deconstructing Belief in Evolution

A young biochemist suggested to me that hurricanes constitute an observable example of a natural artifact exhibiting complexity. Read More ›
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Fly Flight Is More Sophisticated than Imagined

Biological structures usually appear more complicated up close, and the fly wing is no exception.  Read More ›

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