Tag: Ludwig van Beethoven

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 15, 2026

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, atheists, automatons, BBC, church, creativity, determinism, free will, human value, Humanize, illusion, insanity, Ludwig van Beethoven, MacArthur Genius Grant, Michael Egnor, moral agency, nihilism, Ninth Symphony, Robert Sapolsky, Science Focus, theists, Vincent van Gogh}

Another “Scientific” Attack on Free Will

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 15, 2026

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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We don’t even know what consciousness is. If there is no free will, are we even really conscious? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 12, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adults, Albert Einstein, architect, artificial inteligence, birds, brain, creative designer, creativity, faith, genius, Granville Sewell, human beings, human creativity, intelligence, intelligent design, Ludwig van Beethoven, Madeleine L’ Engle, nest, new year’s resolutions, Ninth Symphony, Ode to Joy, toddlers, universe, Walking on Water}

The Source of Human Creativity Is Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
January 12, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

6}

Within the field of music, Beethoven’s compositions stand out not least because of his progressive loss of hearing. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Baltic amber, Cambrian Explosion, cladistics, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Ludwig van Beethoven, On the Origin of Species, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, Tree of Life, University of Cambridge, University of Oklahoma}

Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 2, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 22, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, English, fiction, large language models, literature, Ludwig van Beethoven, Michelangelo, Ray Kurzweil, William Shakespeare}

Arguing About Taste with Large Language Models

_{William A. Dembski
October 22, 2024

Bioethics, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

22}

When Large Language Models aspire to the literary genius of James Joyce, what could go wrong? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 13, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, ChatGPT4, Chronicle of Higher Education, classical music, Erik Larson, Harvard University Press, hospital, human intelligence, humor, inference to the best explanation, intelligence, jokes, large language models, Ludwig van Beethoven, mouse, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, whale, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

ChatGPT Is Becoming Increasingly Impressive

_{William A. Dembski
September 13, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

12}

Yet I continue to maintain that human intelligence is qualitatively different from artificial intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Charles Dickens, Darwinism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, Great Britain, Jacques Barzun, London, Ludwig van Beethoven, Malcolm Muggeridge, Russia, scientism, The Restoration of Man, Victorian England}

Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 8, 2021

Bioethics

4}

George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant. Read More ›

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Date
December 7, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, David Hume, determinism, free will, ID the Future, initial conditions, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mike Keas, natural law, podcast, Sabine Hossenfelder, Science, universe, William Shakespeare}

Determinism: A “Bizarre Position” Held by Scientists “with Great Confidence”

_{Science & Culture
December 7, 2020

Physical Sciences, Physics

1}

If it’s true, then all one says or thinks — right or wrong, true or false — was determined some 13.8 billion years ago. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 30, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, bacteria, biological diversity, Christianity, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, evolution, Judaism, Ludwig van Beethoven, natural selection, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution}

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2019: PragerU Video on Evolution = Stephen Meyer at Yankee Stadium x 20

_{David Klinghoffer
December 30, 2019

Evolution

4}

Meyer in these 5 minutes does a superbly lucid job of explaining why scientists who doubt the standard evolutionary story are “appropriately skeptical.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 24, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, bacteria, biological diversity, Christianity, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, evolution, Judaism, Ludwig van Beethoven, natural selection, PragerU, random mutations, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution}

New PragerU Video on Evolution = Stephen Meyer at Yankee Stadium x 20

_{David Klinghoffer
October 24, 2019

Evolution

4}

Watched by a million people this week, Meyer in these 5 minutes does a superbly lucid job of explaining why scientists who doubt the standard evolutionary story are “appropriately skeptical.” Read More ›