Tag: Los Angeles

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 2, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Allan CP, artificial intelligence, capitalism, creativity, employment, ethics, Her (movie), human creativity, Joaquin Phoenix, Los Angeles, operating system, Robert J. Marks, Scarlett Johansson, The Science Dilemma}

For Better or Worse? Robert J. Marks on Our AI Future

_{David Klinghoffer
July 2, 2025

Ethics, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Mine is among the less weighty problems facing AI ethics, a subject I was glad to see Dr. Marks addressing. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antiquity, atomism, biologists, chaos, Charles Darwin, Chronicles Magazine, City Hall, culture, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Democritus, Eric Metaxas, information, John Zmirak, logos, Los Angeles, madness, materialism, mathematicians, meaning, personal finance, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Seattle, theism, values, West Coast}

Cultural Chaos Has Long Roots, Millennia Before Darwin

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2025

Culture, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As I’m writing this, some rioters have gathered (literally) across the street from our Seattle office, on their way to a “protest” at City Hall. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, 23andMe, Amazon, archaeology, Brown University, Columbia University, David Klinghoffer, dementia, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, epigenetics, genome, George Thomas, Greek, Greeks, Harriet Lund, humans, immaterial genome, journalism, Latin, Los Angeles, Mayflower, National Review, Orthodox Judaism, Oscar A. C. Lund, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Robert Rosen, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Smithsonian National Museum, The Gene: An Intimate History, whales, William F. Buckley Jr., yeast}

Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge

_{David Klinghoffer
May 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, carnivores, cats, clades, convergence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, jaws, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, paleontologists, Pleistocene, predators, Simon Conway Morris, skulls, teleology}

Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

_{Günter Bechly
July 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

4}

No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial intelligence, Bertrand Russell, chess, Elon Musk, environments, Los Angeles, machines, Robert J. Marks II, self-driving cars, software, Tesla, West Virginia}

Artificial General Intelligence: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

_{William A. Dembski
January 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

7}

The worry is — and it’s a legitimate worry — that our environments will increasingly be altered to accommodate AI. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
September 9, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, apes, blacks, California, Darwinian racism, evolution, governor, Human Zoos, Los Angeles, Obama Administration, Politics, progressive, Racism, Roseanne Barr, The Descent of Man, Valerie Jarrett, whites}

Sickening: Darwinian Racism Alive and Well in California

_{John G. West
September 9, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The vile trope that blacks are somehow closer to apes than other races has deep roots in Darwinian biology and social theory. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Gopnik, animal husbandry, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, Artificial Selection, bacteria, Charles Darwin, doctors, evolution, evolutionary biology, health, infectious diseases, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Los Angeles, medical care, medical research, medicine, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, PZ Myers, The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series), The New Yorker}

No, Despite Often-Heard Claims, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Is Not Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
April 10, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

5}

The treatment of infectious diseases with antibiotics is a superb example of intelligent design principles applied to medical research and human biology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 19, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, China, coronavirus, DDT, deplorables, eugenics, evolution, feces, globalism, gun control, Holocaust, homelessness, Los Angeles, malaria, medicines, Michael Egnor, overpopulation, pandemic, pharmaceutical industry, plague, quarantine, San Francisco, Seattle, Steven Novella, supermarket, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, Yale University}

Science Expert Slaps the “Anti-Intellectuals,” Again

_{Michael Egnor
March 19, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

7}

I stopped by Joe the truck driver’s house to talk. Joe read Yale neurologist Steven Novella’s essay, and he didn’t think much of it. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 3, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, arthritis, biotech, California, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, diabetes, embryonic stem cells, Federal Government, George W. Bush, heart disease, Hollywood, homeless, human cloning, Los Angeles, NIH, pluripotent stem cells, San Francisco, Third World, Victor Davis Hanson}

Will California Voters Be Stem-Cell Suckered Again?

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 3, 2019

Medicine

3}

California is in worse shape now than it was in 2004. Thousands of people are living in tents on the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 13, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, babies, biotechnology, China, government, Los Angeles, medicine, morality, Nature (journal), prison, Russia, scientists}

Here Comes “Blade Runner World”!

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 13, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

It is startling to realize that the movie Blade Runner takes place in 2019. Read More ›