Tag: intelligent agents

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 27, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Arts
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, complexity, designing process, electrical systems, fuel delivery, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, intelligent agents, invention, Jody Sjogren, Jonathan Wells, Machine-Living System Analogy, mind, natural world, podcast, power plants, sensory systems, structural systems engineer, visual form}

Learning About Biological Design from Human Art

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 27, 2025

Anatomy, Arts, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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How does an intelligent agent go from idea to artifact? What can the process of art teach us about the evidence of design in the natural world? Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", analogy, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, Bernard Carr, DNA, genetic mutations, Gospels, information, intelligent agents, jesus, John Paul II, Michael Chaberek, molecular biology, natural selection, praying mantis, Roman Catholic, sparrows, specified complexity, Thomas Aquinas}

Intelligent Design and Aquinas’ Fifth Way

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 16, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Saint Thomas did not have examples of specified complexity as in molecular biology, but it is possible to find a text that suggests he would favor of ID. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 9, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Alfred North Whitehead, Apostle Paul, Christians, Darwinian paradigm, Darwinism, earthquakes, Europe, evolution, faith and science, Greek philosophers, human soul, intelligent agents, intelligent design, john lennox, lightning, New Testament, Nobel laureates, Robert Laughlin, Roman Catholic, Zeus}

Natural Selection: The God that Failed

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 9, 2024

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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The god-of-the-gaps objection does have some merit to it, but it does not rule out ID. The progress of science has dethroned a multitude of false gods. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, accuracy, bioengineering, control systems, evolution, flexibility, intelligent agents, intelligent design, limbs, nervous system, robots, sensors, stability, Stuart Burgess, vertebrate limbs}

Control Systems in Vertebrate Limbs Further Demonstrate that They Were Designed

_{Brian Miller
October 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Even if one limb suddenly transformed into another, the new limb would prove useless until its control system was entirely reengineered. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 23, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Lord Tennyson, aquarium, copper, corals, creator, earth, ecosystems, intelligent agents, intelligent design, iron, life, nickel, oceans, optimization, phytoplankton, seawater, trace elements, zinc}

Oceanic Design: The Fine-Tuned Balance of Trace Elements for Marine Life

_{Günter Bechly
September 23, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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This long-term cycling is again indicative of a system that was well designed for sustainability. Read More ›

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Author
Elie Feder

Date
August 19, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, chance, Cosmological Natural Selection, design, elimination, intelligent agents, Lee Smolin, multiverse, physical constants, physicists, probabilities, universe, William Lane Craig}

Examining the Fine-Tuning Argument by Elimination

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 19, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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In his article “Has the Multiverse Replaced God?” William Lane Craig presents the fine-tuning argument using the process of elimination. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bacterial cell division, cell division, cell walls, Charles Darwin, evolution, foresight, ID the Future, intelligent agents, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, podcast}

Irreducible Complexity in Bacterial Cell Division

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 3, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Ready to dip a toe in the ocean of biological ingenuity? Dr. Jonathan McLatchie is back. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
January 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, bats, birds, common design, convergent evolution, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, Europe, geomagnetic field, George McGhee, intelligent agents, magnetic compass, mammals, navigation, paleontologists, polarization, Royal Society, sunlight}

In Bats and Other Animals, Evidence of Common Design in a Magnetic Compass

_{Eric Cassell
January 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There has been little data previously to confirm that mammals navigate long distances using the earth’s geomagnetic field. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 31, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Brian Miller, Caroline Parins-Fukuchia, Cédric Blais, common ancestry, discordance, Dominik Schrempf, evolution, evolutionary genomics, genus, Gergely Szöllősi, Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory W. Stull, intelligent agents, intelligent design, John M. Archibald, Juli Berwald, Michael DeGiorgio, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology & Evolution, phylogenetic studies, phylogenomics, phylogeny, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University of London, Rasmus Nielsen, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, Richard H. Adams, Science and Faith in Dialogue, species, Stephen A. Smith, The Greatest Show on Earth, Todd A. Castoe, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley}

No. 2 Story of 2023: Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

_{Casey Luskin
December 31, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 6, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, causal agents, Christianity, Greco-Roman world, history, humanity, ID the Future, intelligent agents, knowledge, Medieval Europe, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, natural causes, nature, podcast, scientism, scientists, unintelligent causes, universe}

When Natural and Super-Natural Explanations Work Hand in Hand

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 6, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Methodological naturalism is the idea that scientists may only invoke unintelligent causes for nature’s history. Read More ›