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Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 26, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adrenaline, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, computer science, DNA, emotions, engineers, feelings, free will, Google, human cells, imagination, Isaac Asimov, LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, life, love, machines, materialists, René Descartes, self-awareness, sentience, software, soul, Stanford University, toaster, Washington Post, William Hurlbut}

Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 26, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program "sentient." Read More ›

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Date
January 16, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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, altruism, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution News, evolutionists, genes, group selection, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, kin selection, love, offspring, self-sacrifice, survival machines}

To Say the Least, Altruism Is Not an Easy Fit with Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 16, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection. Read More ›

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Date
January 11, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
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, Alice in Wonderland, alleles, altruism, antelopes, ants, behavior, behaviorism, bioRxiv, bonobos, cooperation, Darwinian theory, evolution, game theory, genetic determinism, kin selection, lions, love, pandemic, slime molds}

How to Destroy Love with Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 11, 2021

Biology, Evolution

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When Darwin proposed a new view of biology based on chance, he cheapened everything, including our most precious human values. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
May 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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, compassion, coronavirus, courage, Doctor's Diary (series), emotions, fear, intelligent design, joy, love, pain, pandemic, patients, physicians}

Doctor’s Diary: Fear Is a Gift from Our Designer

_{Geoffrey Simmons
May 24, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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As a physician, I have cared for many patients who were fearful. Often with good reason, but not always. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, caterpillar, chocolate, intelligent design, love, mutations, natural selection, neutral evolution, pattern, population, proteins, sequence space}

Love, Chocolate, and Neutral Evolution

_{Ann Gauger
May 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Neutral evolution means mutations are occurring all the time, and most of the time they are neutral, or nearly neutral. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 11, 2020

Categories
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Bernardo Kastrup, Big Bang, black holes, Cartesian dualism, consciousness, Darwinists, Jerry Coyne, love, material phenomena, materialism, mercy, philosophers, physical science, physicalism, physicalists, res cogitans, supernatural, Thales, truth}

Do Physicalists Believe in Black Holes?

_{Michael Egnor
February 11, 2020

Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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A materialist view of reality leaves out much of reality (love, reason, mercy, truth, etc.) so skittish materialists often call themselves “physicalists.” Read More ›

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Date
June 3, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, biological origins, free will, illusion, Instagram, Jay Richards, Kool-Aid, love, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, morality, myths, Neil deGrasse Tyson, reality, Richard Dawkins, Science Uprising, scientists, soul}

First Episode of Science Uprising Is Out: Fake Science and Toxic Materialism

_{Science and Culture
June 3, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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What if the way the culture directs us to think about our own biological origins is based on a vast, highly influential myth? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 11, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, eugenics, evolution, fauna, gene editing, humanity, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, Kansas, love, natural selection, soul, transhumanism, Transhumanist Bill of Rights}

Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human “Improvement”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 11, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Peter Clarke claims that I was “clearly fearmongering,” but then admits, “this depiction is fairly accurate.” Okay, then. Read More ›

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Date
January 29, 2019

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", aesthetics, Ann Gauger, anthropomorphism, beauty, biologists, Charles Darwin, Cinderella, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, Ferris Jabr, fitness, flowers, genes, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, love, materialism, Michael Behe, natural selection, ornithology, physiology, Richard Prum, sexual selection, Undeniable (book), Zombie Science (book)}

Mission Impossible: Darwinizing Beauty

_{Science and Culture
January 29, 2019

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The ease of ascribing beauty to intelligent design contrasts with the impossibility of explaining its origin by material causes. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
September 18, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, beauty, brain, C.S. Lewis, chimpanzees, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, David Premack, emotions, Jane Goodall, love, mastodons, nerve cells, perception, poetry, rational thought, soul, University of Pennsylvania, wetware}

Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New

_{Ann Gauger
September 18, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Psychology

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Our brains have vastly more ability than is needed for survival, most notably the capacity for language and abstract thought. Read More ›