Tag: H.G. Wells

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), Arthur C. Clarke, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, Back to the Future, Blaise Pascal, Book of Job, Cambridge University, Darwinian evolution, Dune, Erika DeBenedictis, Ezekiel, Frank Herbert, Garden of Eden, gravity, H.G. Wells, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, Isaiah, large language models, Lucifer, Old Testament, Reformation, Satan, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Time Machine, wormholes, Yuval Harari}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator

_{William A. Dembski
January 28, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction? Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
March 1, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, bleeding, blood-clotting cascade, digital information, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, Genome Research, H.G. Wells, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, Nature (journal), Pentagon, UAPs, UFO sightings, UFOs, universe}

Doctor’s Diary: The Other Intelligent Designer(s)?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
March 1, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

4}

Who thought of a clotting cascade just in case there’s bleeding? Who thought of an antibody system? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 17, 2021

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Blaise Pascal, Charles Darwin, Christendom, Claudius, creator, Crime and Punishment, Darwinian theory, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gothic cathedrals, H.G. Wells, Hamlet, intelligent design, John Updike, literature, logical positivism, Marxism, materialism, Middle Ages, narrative, nihilism, pigeons, Pulitzer Prize, sublime, The Time Machine, William Shakespeare}

Intelligent Design and the Restoration of Story

_{Jonathan Witt
March 17, 2021

Arts, Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

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Celebrating the growing evidence of intelligent design can help rescue the arts from the nihilism and ugliness they have descended into in many quarters. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 7, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Brave New World, Christianity, Darwinism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, imperialism, militarism, moral responsibility, Shaw Chesterton series, Social Darwinism, Soviet Union, T.S. Eliot, Westminster Abbey, William F. Buckley Jr., William Shakespeare}

Darwinism as the Root Problem of Modernity

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 7, 2021

Bioethics, Ethics

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Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 6, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Christianity, eugenics, feminism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Malcolm Muggeridge, National Review, Shaw Chesterton series, socialism, The Restoration of Man}

Shaw, Chesterton, and the Critique of Darwinism

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 6, 2021

Bioethics

5}

Chesterton was a friend of Shaw but also an ideological opponent, who often debated with him on public stages. Read More ›

African savanna with mountain in national wild park

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 13, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Africa, Bible, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinian materialism, English literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H.G. Wells, human brain, human origins, Jacques Derrida, John Milton, John Updike, Michael Keas, monolith, Robert Ardrey, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick, Texas, The Time Machine, Unbelievable, weapons}

Darwinism, Storytelling, and the Futurist ET Myth

_{Jonathan Witt
December 13, 2020

Bioethics

5}

The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 12, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", 2001: A Space Odyssey, civilization, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, Émile Zola, evolution, extinction, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, humans, Jack London, literature, mutations, natural science, natural selection, naturalism, Robert Ardrey, science fiction, sheep, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Crane, The Time Machine, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Hardy, violence}

Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

_{Jonathan Witt
December 12, 2020

Bioethics

3}

The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 27, 2020

Categories
Anatomy
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, apes, atheism, babies, birth canal, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, childbirth, chromosomes, creativity, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), ductus arteriosus, earthquake, Ecuador, foresight, H.G. Wells, heteropalindromes, human evolution, humans, intelligent design, invention, Marcos Eberlin, Minnesota, orphan genes, oxygen, parable, Periodic Table, phenotypes, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Tree of Life}

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 27, 2020

Anatomy, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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Fans of H. G. Wells are probably familiar with his 1904 short story, “The Country of the Blind.” Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur C. Clarke, Back to Methuselah, C.H. Waddington, C.S. Lewis, Darwinism, eugenics, evolution, Francis Galton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, J.B.S. Haldane, Olaf Stapledon, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, Possible Worlds, science fiction, scientism, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The World}

C. S. Lewis, Science, and Science Fiction

_{James A. Herrick
August 23, 2020

Bioethics, Technology

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Was C. S. Lewis an enemy of science? The apparent answer to this question is no. Read More ›

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Date
February 26, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Andrew McDiarmid, C.S. Lewis, Coast to Coast AM, George Noory, god's, H.G. Wells, ID the Future, Michael Keas, occult, podcast, science fiction, Space Trilogy, The War of the Worlds, Unbelievable}

Mike Keas: Modern-Day Atheism Meets the Occult

_{Science and Culture
February 26, 2019

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Keas describes the surprisingly religious role played by much atheistic science fiction. The discussion includes 2001: A Space Odyssey and H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. Read More ›