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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, electrons, fluid flow, mathematician, quantum mechanics, René Descartes, zero}

Intelligent Design in Imaginary Numbers

_{Eric Hedin
August 15, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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René Descartes, in 1637, is credited with being the first to assign this label to results involving the square root of a negative number. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
July 23, 2023

Categories
Applied Sciences
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, beauty, C.S. Lewis, computation, computers, economy, insight, John Horgan, magic, mathematician, nature, science, The Abolition of Man}

Science for Insight or Science for Power?

_{Peter Biles
July 23, 2023

Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of "knowledge as power" in the computer age. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
July 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, animals, chimpanzees, Columbia University, Darwinian theory, David Premack, Dogs, dolphins, great apes, humans, Jesuits, mathematician, MIT, puppy, San Diego, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania}

Ovid in His Exile

_{David Berlinski
July 7, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University was the scene of many strange experiments. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, evolution, fiction, humans, Lawrence Krauss, literature, mathematician, Melissa Cain Travis, physical reality, physicists, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Institute, scientists, Stephen Meyer, unguided processes}

“Would Mathematics Be Here if We Weren’t?”

_{Peter Biles
June 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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In December, physicist and author Lawrence Krauss interviewed the late American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13th at the age of 89. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 25, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, David Berlinski, Enlightenment, human nature, mathematician, Peggy Noonan, Peter Robinson, philosophers, Science After Babel, Titan, Titanic, Wall Street Journal, World War I}

Shades of Titanic — Probing the Wreck of the Unsinkable Enlightenment

_{David Klinghoffer
June 25, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Science and reason were supposed to transform the world for the good instead of soaking it in gore. Read More ›

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Date
June 21, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Alan Turing, Andrew McDiarmid, codebreaking, computing, David Berlinski, ID the Future, intelligence, life, mathematician, philosophers, podcast, Reductionism, Science After Babel, The Imitation Game, Theory of Everything, World War II}

David Berlinski on the Immaterial, Alan Turing, and the Mystery of Life Itself

_{Science & Culture
June 21, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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If scientists thought that life's origin and nature would soon yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed. Read More ›

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Date
June 18, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, children, computer science, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Gregory Chaitin, ID the Future, Kurt Gödel, logic, mathematician, Mind Matters, philosophers, podcast, Robert J. Marks II}

Gregory Chaitin on Gödel, Computer Science, and the Blessing of Children

_{Science & Culture
June 18, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Robert J. Marks talks with the trailblazing mathematician about Kurt Gödel’s ontological proof for the existence of God, and more. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Planetology
Tagged
, algorithms, calculus, DNA, double helix, genetic code, Greek, incompleteness theorem, Isaac Newton, Kurt Gödel, Leo Tolstoy, mathematician, mechanics, molecular biology, particles, Sanskrit, TIME, U.S. Constitution}

Iterations of Immortality

_{David Berlinski
June 13, 2023

Evolution, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Planetology

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The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinism, David Berlinski, ID the Future, intellectuals, materialistic science, mathematician, Paris, philosophers, podcast, Science After Babel, Tower of Babel, Wistar Symposium}

Listen: In a New Book, David Berlinski Gives the Devil His Due

_{Science & Culture
June 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Berlinski is at his best as he discusses everything from the Tower of Babel as a metaphor for modern science, to his friendship with Marcel Schützenberger. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biologists, CELS, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, conferences, Denton, engineers, Eric Anderson, events, intelligent design, mathematician, Steve Laufmann, Texas}

Intelligence Metrics: Measuring the Degree of Intelligence in Design

_{William A. Dembski
June 4, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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I had the privilege of speaking on intelligence metrics. Here are my slides. I hope soon to develop this talk into a proper peer-reviewed paper. Read More ›