Tag: computer simulation

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, avatar, blue pill, Book of Life, Christianity, computer science, computer simulation, cosmology, Daily Mail, doomsday, faith and science, fine-tuning, Four Last Things, games, Genesis, Gospels, human body, intelligent design, Judaism, longtermism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael Marshall, Occam’s razor, red pill, Rizwan Virk, science fiction, Silicon Valley, simulation, Skeptic Magazine, Stacey Liberatore, universe, virtual worlds}

Could Faith, Science, and Simulation Theory Be Mutually Reinforcing?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2026

Computational Sciences, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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MIT-trained Rizwan Virk says something that is surprising: that his approach to cosmology is a branch of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
July 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, agency, algorithmic logic units, avida, Brain Potter, Brian Arthur, circuits, combinations, comparators, complex circuits, components, computer simulation, decoders, digital logic circuits, economists, encoders, evolution, functionality, functions, multiplexers, Nature (journal), needs, population counters, Richard Lenski, Robert Pennock, stepping stones, technology}

Technological Evolution: Accidentally Demonstrating the Limits of Evolution

_{Winston Ewert
July 16, 2026

Evolution, Technology

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While economist Brian Arthur models the development of technology, he refers to it as the “evolution” of technology. Read More ›

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Date
June 7, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, computer simulation, David Klinghoffer, Dilbert, Discovery Institute, homelessness, humor, intelligent design, Planning Commission, reality, Scott Adams, Seattle, simulation, simulation theory, suburbs, Townhall}

“Homelessness” Meets the Simulation Theory

_{Science & Culture
June 7, 2026

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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"As the late podcaster and 'Dilbert' cartoonist Scott Adams used to say, it was as if the Simulation was 'winking at us.'" Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, children, College Physics, common science, computer simulation, computers, David Klinghoffer, evolution, fundamental forces, humans, intelligent design, James Tour, materialistic science, Mathematical Intelligencer, mathematicians, Michael Kent, natural phenomena, Peter Urone, physics, Plato's Revenge, quantum mechanics, Rice University, Richard Sternberg, scientific evidence, smart phones, spaceships, supernatural}

Evolution and Common-Sense Reasoning

_{Granville Sewell
June 2, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The equations of quantum mechanics do not describe exactly — even in theory — the effects of the fundamental forces on the fundamental particles of physics. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Australopithecus, biologic institute, computer simulation, coordinated mutations, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Discovery Institute, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Fossil Friday (series), generations, gradualism, Indohyus, macroevolution, Michael Behe, Michael Shermer, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, objections, Ola Hössjer, paleontology, population genetics, radiometric dating, recombination, Richard Dawkins, saltationism, The Edge of Evolution, tiktaalik, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations

_{Günter Bechly
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Paleontology

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As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 17, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, computer simulation, computers, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Elon Musk, Eugene Wigner, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, National Review, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nick Bostrom, particle physics, phylogeny, Standard Model, Star Trek}

“Simulation Hypothesis” and Star Trek — Intelligent Design by Another Name

_{Casey Luskin
February 17, 2021

Physical Sciences

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The universe may be intelligently designed and yet not be a simulation. The theory of intelligent design does not rise or fall with the simulation hypothesis. Read More ›

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Date
November 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chemists, computer simulation, Douglas Axe, evolution, golf, Hamlet, Harvard University, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Michael Behe, National Academy of Sciences, natural selection, optimization, PNAS, polypeptides, protein evolution, proteins, Richard Dawkins, syllogism, Undeniable (book), Weasel program}

Are Proteins Attracted to Function?

_{Science & Culture
November 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Doug Axe showed that functional space is a tiny fraction of sequence space in proteins. Evolutionists think they found a shortcut. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 17, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Brian Josephson, Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratory, Columbia University, computer simulation, David Kipping, Douglas Axe, evolution, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Egnor, Nobel Prize, rain, Scientific American, Twitter}

ID by Another Name? Astronomer Says 50 Percent Chance We’re Living in Computer Simulation

_{David Klinghoffer
October 17, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Of course, an 80 percent chance that we live in an intelligently design world compares favorably with only a 50 percent chance. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, algorithms, Aristotle, computation, computer simulation, Franz Brentano, intelligent design, meaning, Michael Egnor, MIT, neuroscience, Scott Adams, simulation theory}

MIT’s Rizwan Virk on Simulation Theory, AKA Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
April 11, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Egnor: “If we are living in a computer simulation, we couldn’t think to ask the question.” Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 16, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, avida, computer simulation, Darwinists, education, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, intelligent design, Robert J. Marks II, software, students, teacher, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Education or Obfuscation? Avida in Science Class

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 16, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You might think teaching about evolution in public schools is already about as misleading as it can be. Then, you find, it gets worse. Read More ›