Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
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Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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machines

Penn and Teller 2
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David Klinghoffer
Date
April 30, 2019
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Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Artificial Intelligence as a “Magic Act”

David Klinghoffer
April 30, 2019
Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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The error is not completely different from imagining that natural selection really can do what creative intelligence — foresight! — can do. Read More ›
First_replication
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Granville Sewell
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April 29, 2019
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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In Search of Self-Replicating Clocks

Granville Sewell
April 29, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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That Darwinism seems even superficially plausible depends completely on the ability of living things to reproduce themselves without significant degradation. Read More ›
Jay Richards 2
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David Klinghoffer
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April 18, 2019
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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Richards: False Prophecies of a Robotic Future Are Based on a False Darwinian Premise

David Klinghoffer
April 18, 2019
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind
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The rejoinder to this way of thinking, which Jay Richards expresses with wonderful concision, is that humans possess a unique capacity forever setting us apart from machines. Read More ›
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Michael Behe
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March 26, 2019
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 3

Michael Behe
March 26, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Perhaps the evidence for the vast scope of Darwin’s theory really isn’t as strong as biologists over the years have been telling each other. Read More ›
Lehigh-University
Photo: Lehigh University campus, by Joseph Giansante '76 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Michael Behe
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March 22, 2019
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 1

Michael Behe
March 22, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Their review pretty much completely misses the mark. Nonetheless, it is a good illustration of how sincere-yet-perplexed professional evolutionary biologists view the data. Read More ›
Descartes
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Jonathan Wells
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February 15, 2019
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Biology
Intelligent Design
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Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery

Jonathan Wells
February 15, 2019
Biology, Intelligent Design
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French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.” Read More ›
Marks Medved
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David Klinghoffer
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November 29, 2018
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Neuroscience & Mind
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Great Minds: Robert Marks, Michael Medved on the Limits of Computation

David Klinghoffer
November 29, 2018
Neuroscience & Mind
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There’s no danger of computers ruling us, but there is a peril in employing them to greatly magnify the impact of our own errors. Read More ›
robot
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David Klinghoffer
Date
October 18, 2018
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Human Computation — A “Practical Application” of Intelligent Design

David Klinghoffer
October 18, 2018
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
2
As Denyse O’Leary asks, “Why is it comparatively easy to develop a program to play chess, as opposed to teaching a robot to walk freely?” Read More ›
starfish
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David Klinghoffer
Date
October 15, 2018
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Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
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Denton, Gilder: The Biology of Surprise

David Klinghoffer
October 15, 2018
Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology
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Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism is just a blunt recipe, an algorithm, and it can only select what is immediately functional. Read More ›
Gilder Levin 2
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David Klinghoffer
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October 15, 2018
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Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
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Gilder on Surprise, Creativity, and Human Exceptionalism

David Klinghoffer
October 15, 2018
Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind
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It’s strikes me that this is a difference between design and Darwinian thinking. Read More ›

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