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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 18, 2020

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Brian Miller, cells, Center for Science and Culture, chemists, computers, design detection, Discovery Institute, information, James Tour, Rice University}

Tour and Miller Tackle Cells as Computers, Alien Life, and More

_{Jonathan Witt
December 18, 2020

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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They cover everything from how simple can a cell get and still survive and reproduce to questions of design detection and bouncing cosmologies. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 4, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Bradley Center, brain, calculations, computers, Discovery Institute, George Gilder, mind, Mind Matters}

George Gilder: Can a Computer Model a Brain?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 4, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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"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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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, Apple iPhones, Big Bang, children, computers, consciousness, designer, earth, Energy, evolution, fire, Fire-Maker, First Cause, intelligent design, materialists, matter, metals, Michael Denton, multiverse, Paul Davies, physical laws, Robin Collins, science fiction, Science Uprising, scientific discovery, self-replicating machine, Stephen Hawking, water, Why Evolution Is Different}

Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

_{Granville Sewell
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. Read More ›

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Date
October 10, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, brain, computers, Darwinism, evolutionary biology, genes, ID the Future, intentionality, J. Scott Turner, mechanistic view, mind, purpose, Robert Crowther, State University of New York}

Listen: Scott Turner on Evolutionary Biology’s Mechanistic Bias

_{Science & Culture
October 10, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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Viewing the brain as a computer, for example, obscures many things about the brain and the mind that exceed computers, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, airplanes, Arthur Eddington, closed system, computer simulations, computers, electromagnetic force, encyclopedias, intelligence, Internet, Mathematical Intelligencer, natural selection, novels, PDE2D, planets, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Why Evolution Is Different}

My Failed Computer Simulation

_{Granville Sewell
October 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Physics

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I said, “You mean there is a fifth force — why didn't you say so? Just give me the equations for this force and I will add it to my model.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, biologists, computer programs, computers, David Berlinski, DNA, engineers, Eric Holloway, evolution, Human Nature (book), M.-P. Schützenberger, mathematician, Mind Matters, natural selection, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, University of Pennsylvania, Wistar Institute}

The Gargoyle’s Challenge — Remembering Schützenberger on Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
September 25, 2020

Evolution

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David Berlinski lives in the shadow of the Notre-Dame in Paris and poignantly remembers the cathedral before it burned. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
September 8, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, animals, children, computers, consciousness, ears, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionists, human brain, human evolution, human origins, pain, scientists}

The “Hard” Problem of Consciousness

_{Granville Sewell
September 8, 2020

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Above is a picture of three children in the 1950s. One of them is me, the other two are not. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
July 31, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, airplanes, computers, cosmic fine-tuning, earth, encyclopedias, evolution, fire, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent beings, intelligent design, iPhones, James Tour, Jupiter, materialists, metals, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Paul Davies, physical constants, planetary fine-tuning, Rice University, Science Uprising, scientific discovery, self-replicating machine, Stephen Hawking, The Edge of Evolution, water, Why Evolution Is Different}

A “Lush” World Defies Materialist Explanations, as Behe and Denton Confirm

_{Granville Sewell
July 31, 2020

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physics, Technology

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Conditions on Earth, the laws of physics, are not only fine-tuned for the survival of intelligent beings, they are fine-tuned for the development of technology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, ceramics, charcoal, civilization, computers, earth, fire, Fire-Maker, humans, kilns, lightning, metallurgy, volcanoes}

The Path to Technology Was Built into Nature

_{Michael Denton
July 24, 2020

Intelligent Design

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All these elements of fitness in nature for the development of technology, crucial to mankind’s rise to civilization, long preceded man’s arrival on Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Roman V. Yampolskiy

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, computers, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary computation, generations, genetic programming, programmers, software, Turing Machine, Turing test}

The State of the Art in Evolutionary Computation

_{Roman V. Yampolskiy
July 16, 2020

Evolution

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As with early AI, the claims are inflated, unsupported, and the solutions do not scale to real world problems. Perhaps an EA “winter” is long overdue. Read More ›