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On Scopes and Dover Trials, Philosopher Robert Pennock Twists History and Science

There is no reason for Pennock’s rule other than to short-circuit the origins debate and rule intelligent design out-of-court without addressing the evidence. Read More ›
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Neuroevolution Methods Show Significant Success

The Darwinian algorithm works in theory, but does not work in practice, when applied in the domain of software production. Read More ›
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On Evolutionary Computation

From the early 1950s, multiple well-documented attempts to make Darwin’s algorithm work on a computer have been published. Read More ›
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What Can and Can’t Darwin’s Algorithm Compute?

A number of seminal papers have been published attempting to formalize Darwin’s biological theory from the point of view of computational sciences. Read More ›
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New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information

William Dembski and Robert J. Marks developed the concept of active information to measure the extent to which a search function appears pre-programmed to find some target. Read More ›

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