Tag: mimicry

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, comedians, comedy, common sense, Darwinian evolution, evolution, evolutionary adaptation, insects, intelligent design, just-so stories, leaf, mimicry, predators, reverse-engineering, Stephen Meyer}

Steve Meyer and Comic Brad Stine on Insect Mimicry, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
January 4, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Apart from being a funny guy, Stine brings a gift for some shrewd common-sense, including about evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, Alphonse de Candolle, Asa Gray, biologists, butterflies, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, final cause, Friedrich Engels, Harvard University, historians, James G. Lennox, Karl Marx, mimicry, purpose, teleology, William Graham}

Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

_{Richard Weikart
December 16, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 18, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biologists, Chile, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, intelligent design, mimicry, mutations, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, vision}

The Plant That Can Mimic Other Plants

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 18, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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If it can’t see, how does it copy the leaves of any one of a number of plants growing nearby? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Burmese amber, butterflies, cladistic analysis, cladogram, cockroach, convergence, Fossil Friday (series), Kalligrammatidae, lacewing, Lepidoptera, mimicry, paleontology, Trichoptera, unguided evolution, wing venation}

Fossil Friday: Three Dubious New Fossil Insect Orders from Cretaceous Burmese Amber

_{Günter Bechly
April 26, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Apart from this more general critique, are there any implications from these amber insects for intelligent design theory? You bet! Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 24, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Arctic terns, birds, brain, Current Biology, drones, Duke University, evolution, hummingbird, intelligent design, Live Science, migration, mimicry, odors, parakeets, parrots, phytoplankton, PLOS ONE, salmon, starlings, vocabulary, zoologists}

Appreciating Bird Mimicry and the Other Exceptional, Designed Talents

_{David Coppedge
July 24, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Let the reader enjoy the 350+ word vocabulary of Clover, alleged to be the best talking parrot in the world. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 5, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, cuticle, Dominican Republic, entomologists, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), homology, intelligent design, Maria Sybilla Merian, mimicry, Miocene, South America, Suriname, Switzerland}

Fossil Friday: Treehopper Nymph in Dominican Amber and the Miracle of Mimicry

_{Günter Bechly
August 5, 2022

Paleontology, Science

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The miracle of mimicry, for which there are countless examples in the animal kingdom, represents powerful evidence for design in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", algorithms, artificial intelligence, computers, consciousness, creativity, emergence, experience, human brain, immortality, mimicry, Non-Computable You, qualia, robots, sentience, Steven Spielberg, strong AI, understanding}

No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 24, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
April 10, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, DNA, evolution, mimicry, octopuses, Research, RNA, teleology}

More on Massive RNA Editing and the Octopus

_{Cornelius Hunter
April 10, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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Octopuses have an amazing ability to sense and mimic the coloration, shape, and texture of their surroundings. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 12, 2016

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal languages, designators, ethology, human language, language, mimicry, semantic information, signal}

Do Animals Have Language?

_{Michael Egnor
July 12, 2016

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some animals, after sufficient training by human researchers, use signals that mimic language. But mimicry is not language itself. Read More ›

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Author
Brendan Dixon

Date
May 20, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __tedited, brain processes, computational reductionism, Darwinian algorithm, human intelligence, human mind, hype, machine metaphor, meat machines, mimicry, Overruling Intelligence}

No, Your Brain Isn’t a Three-Pound Meat Computer

_{Brendan Dixon
May 20, 2016

Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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AI machines are more a form of mimicry than anything even approaching intelligence. Read More ›