Tag: English

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 17, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Catholics, Christians, Creation or Evolution, Creation or Evolution? A Catholic Dilemma, English, ethics, evolution, Father Michael Chaberek, Holy Family Institute of Catholic Faith and Life, ID the Future, philosophy, Pope Pius XII, Reasonably Rational (podcast), science and faith, Scripture, Steno Institute for Faith and Science, Steve Greene, systematic theology, theology, Warsaw}

For Many Catholics, Confusion on Evolution Is Like a Game of Telephone

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 17, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

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“So by the time most Catholics hear about evolution, the version they get is, well, Pope Pius XII said that the church supports and accepts evolution." Read More ›

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Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Linguistics
Scientific Freedom
Social Sciences
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), censorship, COVID-19, disinformation, domestic extremism, English, George Orwell, government, Harvard University, information, Jacob Siegel, Joe Biden, language, lockdowns, malinformation, neologisms, Newspeak, Oldspeak, Skepticalifornia, surveillance, The Information State, thoughtcrime, UnHerd}

“Malinformation” — Another Sinister Neologism from the Folks Who Specialize in Them

_{Science & Culture
July 9, 2026

Linguistics, Scientific Freedom, Social Sciences

3}

The government got lots of support from an academic elite that was anxious to introduce Newspeak terms including “malinformation.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 5, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Bantu, bonobos, Chiara De Gregorio, chimpanzees, Communications Biology, DuckDuckGo, English, French Academy, Genesis, gorillas, great apes, human speech, humans, intelligent design, isochrony, Japanese, laughter, metronome, Nature (journal), orangutans, origin of language, primates, Shigeru Miyagawa, University of Warwick, Why Agree? Why Move?, ZME Science}

Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 5, 2026

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, causation, character string, context, design intuitions, design perspective, English, food, function, genetics, Genetics (journal), genotype, Gregor Mendel, guitar, house, language, Mendelian genetics, natural language, noun, phenotype, pleiotropy, poker, Reductionism, Richard Sternberg, sensory organs, skull, verb, vertebrates, vocalization}

“Beyond Mendel”: Leading Investigators Appeal for a New Genetics

_{Paul Nelson
April 20, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

3}

Top-down causation makes a lot more sense from a design perspective than from any reductionist, lower-levels-first approach. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
February 25, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animals, arithmetic, artificial inteligence, attention, bigram model, Claude, Claude Shannon, coherence, comprehension, computer code, conversations, Data Processing Inequality, disinformation, embedding, English, fish, food, functional capability, games, generative AI systems, GPT-5, humans, incompleteness theorem, information theory, Kurt Gödel, large language models, mathematical reasoning, model collapse, music, numbers, pixels, poetry, processing, prompts, reasoning, René Magritte, semantics, statistical patterns, syntax, The Treachery of Images, tokens, vectors, video, William Shakespeare, word approximation, words}

Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally

_{George Montañez
February 25, 2026

Computational Sciences, Human Exceptionalism

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The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
January 16, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Engineering
Tagged
, ADALINE, Adolf Hitler, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Bell Labs, Bernard Widrow, Boeing, Claude Shannon, copper, copper plating, Earl Sannard Herald, electrical engineering, electroplating, English, Frank Rosenblatt, French, IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Medal, Japanese, Least Mean Squares, MADALINE, Marcian Hoff, National Academy of Engineering, Neural Networks, neurons, pennies, Science in Action, Seattle, silver nitrate, speech recognition, Stanford University}

Remembering Bernie Widrow, a Great Engineer and a Wise Scientist

_{Robert J. Marks II
January 16, 2026

Computational Sciences, Engineering

11}

Widrow called his learning machine a neural network because it was loosely based on the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts model of the biological neuron. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
December 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, convergence, English, evolution, fossil record, genus, geology, German, giraffes, Giraffidae, gradualism, mutations, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, Paleobiology Database, paleontology, Wikipedia, zoology}

New Paper: Giraffe Fossil Record Defies Neo-Darwinism

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
December 1, 2025

Evolution, Zoology

2}

Results have been obtained in definite contrast to the expectations of the neo-Darwinian theory. Read More ›

Natural Selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype, text concept button on keyboard

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Artificial Selection, breeders, Charles Darwin, Christianity, English, fossil record, George Eliot, HMS Beagle, livestock, metaphors, natural selection, naturalists, Naturphilosophie, Origin of Species, physiology, Quarterly Review, Richard Owen, Samuel Wilberforce, terminology, theology, Victorian England, world spirit}

What’s in a Name? Darwin’s Confusing Terminology

_{Neil Thomas
November 17, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

10}

In the English language prior to Darwin, “natural selection” was a term used by those who reared animals to denote nature’s serendipity. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 28, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beginning, biology, cosmology, engineer, English, fine-tuning, France, God the Science the Evidence, human consciousness, ID the Future, information, iPhone, Italy, laws of physics, materialism, Michael Denton, natural constants, Olivier Bonnassies, physics, Spain, universe}

What Can Science Tell Us About the Existence of God?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 28, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

The worldview of materialism is increasingly at odds with the latest scientific discoveries of the last hundred years. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 13, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biology, Brandeis University, Darwinism, elementary particles, English, ethics, Euclid, France, God the Science the Evidence, history, immaterial mind, incompleteness theorem, Irreducible Complexity, Kurt Gödel, materialism, Michel-Yves Bolloré, miracles, morality, Olivier Bonnassies, philosophy, physics, protein rarity, rationality, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scripture, Stephen Meyer, theology, waiting times}

Innovative New Book by French Authors Complements Meyer’s God Hypothesis

_{Brian Miller
October 13, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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Kurt Gödel is not as widely known in popular culture as Einstein, but mathematicians consider his work just as revolutionary and foundational. Read More ›