Tag: meteorites

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 20, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abiogenesis, argument from ignorance, artificial intelligence, biases, ChatGPT, chemical evolution, comets, complexity, cosmic fine-tuning, Directed panspermia, early Earth, higher intelligence, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, interstellar dust, Irreducible Complexity, meteorites, methodological naturalism, multiverse, natural selection, Occam's Razor, panpsychism, panspermia, physical constants, physical laws, primordial soup, self-organization, self-repliation, Strong Anthropic Principle, testability, thermodynamics, Weak Anthropic Principle}

Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
September 20, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 31, 2023

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abiotic chemistry, algae, Aristotle, bacteria, biopolymers, cell walls, cellulose, Current Biology, evolutionists, fungi, genes, gluconeogenesis, glucose, machines, meteorites, microbes, molecular machines, NASA, proteins, sheets, slime molds, sugars, tunicates, volcanoes, wood}

Cellulose Doesn’t Just Happen

_{David Coppedge
May 31, 2023

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The most abundant biopolymer on Earth requires a host of machines, genes, proteins, and accessories. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, ammonia, astrobiology, astrology, Australia, biosignatures, carbon dioxide, Carl Sagan, Casey Luskin, Douglas Axe, habitability, ID the Future, James Webb Space Telescope, meteorites, methane, Michael Denton, molybdenum, Open University, oxygen, ozone, phosphine, polypeptides, Privileged Species, protein space, SETI, solar system, The Conversation, The Privileged Planet, UFOs}

Search for Habitable Planets Is a Design Detection Exercise

_{David Coppedge
November 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

7}

The extent of habitable space within all space can serve as a determinant of the plausibility of naturalism vs intelligent design. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Geology
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, biominerals, bones, carbon, exoplanets, James Webb Space Telescope, Mars, Mercury, meteorites, microbes, minerals, oxygen, pyrite, Robert Hazen, shells, teeth}

Biominerals Could Predict Life on Exoplanets

_{Science and Culture
August 3, 2022

Geology, Physical Sciences, Science

4}

One-third of minerals — chemical solids whose atoms are highly ordered — are created directly or indirectly by life forms. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, biosignatures, Case Western Reserve University, computers, flowers, Forensics, forgery, fraud, intelligent design, Live Science, Mars, meteorites, microbes, NASA, Nature (journal), Neural Networks, predatory journals, science, stromatolites}

Forensic Science: More Intelligent Design in Action

_{Science and Culture
January 5, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

Kenneth Singer at Case Western Reserve trained an AI neural network on a million photos, and then on the brush strokes of four renditions of a flower. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
October 1, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, carbon, Charles Darwin, Cyanobacteria, Dr. Pangloss, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, metazoans, meteorites, Michael Denton, natural selection, optimization, Paul Davies, purpose, quantum mechanics, satire, The Miracle of the Cell, Voltaire, wonder}

Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest

_{Rob Sheldon
October 1, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physics

5}

Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 23, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Metaphysics
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, abiogenesis, astronomers, biologists, calculation, Drake equation, evolution, inflation, meteorites, monomers, Nature (journal), nucleotides, reagents, RNA world, snowflakes, Tomonori Totani, universe, University of Tokyo}

An Astronomer Considers the Origin of Life, with Sobering Results

_{Rob Sheldon
April 23, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Metaphysics, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

7}

In my opinion, only one tooth fairy is allowed per theory, and this one has at least four, making its irrelevance nearly guaranteed. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 14, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, __k-review, American Scientist, astrobiology, Charles Lineweaver, Christopher McKay, Discovery Institute, earth, extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrial life, galactic habitable zone, Hugh Ross, Icarus, intelligent design, interplanetary dust particles, James Kasting, Jay Richards, meteorites, Milky Way, Physics Today, Science (journal), SETI, solar system, The Privileged Planet, University of Washington}

Rare Earth at Twenty — And My Connection

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 14, 2020

Astronomy, Planetology, Rare Earth

5}

In principle, the conjoining of the many Rare Earth factors could overwhelm the available probabilistic resources and serve as evidence for Earth’s design. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, 1984 (novel), Alexander Oparin, cell membranes, coacervates, Darwin's Corrosive Idea, doublespeak, early Earth, Jack Szostak, James Tour, John Sutherland, media, meteorites, Miller-Urey experiment, Nature (journal), nucleotide sequences, public education, religion, researchers, ribozymes, RNA, scientific literature, scientists}

Origin of Life, Public Education, and Religious Neutrality

_{Brian Miller
August 7, 2019

Evolution, Origin of Life, Physics

8}

In a series of lectures and articles, organic chemist James Tour has exposed how research related to the origin of life (OOL) has been scandalously misrepresented to the public. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 30, 2019

Categories
Geology
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, archaea, astrobiology, Australia, bacteria, carbon monoxide, creation myth, cyanide, DNA, enzymes, genetic code, Hollywood, information, intelligence, iron, materialism, meteorites}

Astrobiology: Searching for the Origin of Life, In All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
June 30, 2019

Geology, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

3}

Astrobiologists think they may have found where life came from — cyanide in meteorites! Read More ›