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Photo: Lions hunting, by Corinata, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ecosystems — A Tribute to Intelligent Design, or to Chance and Adaptation?

Thinking about all the species of animals, birds, and fishes, it becomes apparent that each one requires a certain type of food, suitable for its anatomy. Read More ›
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Breaking Google Bard

The fundamental problem with these systems is Goedelian. Kurt Goedel showed that formal systems like this are unable to extract themselves from these systems. Read More ›
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The Non-Computable Human

An algorithm is a step-by-step set of instructions to accomplish a task. A recipe for German chocolate cake is an algorithm. Read More ›
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Photo: Skull fragment, Homo erectus, by Commie cretan (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution

William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says. Read More ›
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The Myth of “Deep Learning”

This is pathetic, and this is what is supposed to lay waste and supersede human intelligence? Read More ›
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Jay Richards at COSM Talks Ray Kurzweil and Strong AI

Is the “singularity” coming, as Kurzweil argues there and elsewhere, when machines equal and then quickly surpass human intelligence? Read More ›
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Photo: A image from Fr. Michael Chaberek’s website Aquinas.Design.

Science and Faith — A Report from Colombia

Rick Sternberg and I agreed that this was one of the best conferences we had ever attended. Read More ›
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Why We Don’t Evolve Software: A Computer Scientist Considers Darwinian Theory

Software engineers are trained in design principles, and also have real experience of how complex functional systems appear and change constructively. Read More ›

A View of the World Fueled by “Nothing Special”

It's a depressed teenager's nihilism -- but proved by science! -- versus an exalted picture of the cosmos. Read More ›

The Human Cost of Animal Rights Fanaticism

Animal rights activists associated with PETA set up Dr. Edward Taub as an animal abuser. Read More ›

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