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Is Biology Approaching the Threshold of Design Acceptance?

A recent biology paper inches up to the edge of design advocacy, without using the phrase “intelligent design.” Read More ›
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Great Minds: Marks, Medved on Human Exceptionalism’s Two Frontiers

There are fundamental, unbridgeable chasms on either side, animal and machine. The capacity for creativity, for one thing, stands permanently outside the reach of algorithms. Read More ›
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Robert Marks: Randomness and the Enigma of Creativity

Only a freely acting, designing agent resolves the mystery. Only such an agent creates, truly, ex nihilo. Read More ›
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Great Minds: Robert Marks, Michael Medved on the Limits of Computation

There’s no danger of computers ruling us, but there is a peril in employing them to greatly magnify the impact of our own errors. Read More ›
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Critics Need to Grapple with Ewert’s Challenge to Darwin’s Tree

If the evidence is more suggestive of a creative enterprise like software engineering, that would have major implications. Read More ›
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Denton, Gilder: The Biology of Surprise

Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism is just a blunt recipe, an algorithm, and it can only select what is immediately functional. Read More ›
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Gilder on Surprise, Creativity, and Human Exceptionalism

It’s strikes me that this is a difference between design and Darwinian thinking. Read More ›
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Totalitarian Science: Past, Present, and Future?

When science is considered the only route to knowledge, scientific experts are given the right to rule, and science becomes totalitarian. Read More ›
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Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision

It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge Read More ›

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