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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
February 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Charles Darwin, circulation, detoxification, digestion, excretion, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, metabolism, organ systems, organisms, purpose, reproductive system, respiration, science of purpose}

A Darwinian Dilemma: The Paradox of Reproduction

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
February 8, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Reproductive Science

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Astonishingly, there is one unique organ system that actually detracts from the chances of survival of even the fittest individuals. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, An Idol for Destruction (series), Aristotle, artificial general intelligence, Calliope, ChatGPT, computer science, creativity, Henri Poincaré, humanism, humans, information, large language models, music, organisms, quantum indeterminacy, radio, Unmoved Mover, worldview}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Oracle Problem

_{William A. Dembski
February 6, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

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Our most advanced artificial intelligence systems, which I’m writing about in this series, require input of external information to keep them from collapsing. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, An Idol for Destruction (series), Are We Spiritual Machines?, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, brain, ChatGPT, Chinese, Chinese Room argument, computers, consciousness, COSM, George Gilder, Gottfried Leibniz, Jay Richards, John Searle, jumbo jet, machines, Marvin Minsky, Michael Denton, Moore’s law, organisms, Ray Kurzweil, Stanford University, Telecosm, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Thomas Ray, Turing Machine, Venice}

Artificial General Intelligence: Machines vs. Organisms

_{William A. Dembski
February 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It may seem that I’m picking too much on Ray Kurzweil. But he and I have been crossing paths for a long time. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 7, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cells, chromatography, Darwinian processes, Denmark, ENCODE, eukaryotes, Germany, intelligent design, interactome, junk DNA, Nature (journal), organisms, organs, proteins, proteome, The Design Inference, tissues, unknome, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, yeast}

The Interactome Multiplies Specified Complexity

_{David Coppedge
December 7, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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No longer think of proteins as isolated parts in a cell. Think of them as friends networking and participating together in a community. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 25, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, actuators, appendix, biological systems, biomimicry, blood, engineered systems, human eye, intelligent design, junk DNA, muscles, organisms, simplicity, skin, Stuart C. Burgess}

Paper Digest: Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology

_{Emily Reeves
October 25, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Throughout this paper, Stuart Burgess emphasizes the supremacy of natural systems over human-engineered ones. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aardvarks, biomolecules, cancer, chemical elements, chloroplasts, CHNOPS, DNA, emergence, ententional, Human Genome Project, illness, Irreducible Complexity, John Stuart Mill, materialistic science, neologism, organisms, Reductionism, science of purpose, Terrence Deacon, zebras}

Emergence by Design

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 30, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, biomolecules, chemical reactions, form, function, life, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, observation, organic molecules, organisms, paradigm, random mutation, science of purpose, structure, theory, urea, vitalism}

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", antifreeze, cattle, Charles Darwin, crustaceans, Dogs, evolution, evolutionary theory, fish, Herbert Spencer, horses, intelligent design, James Tour, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jonathan Wells, mollusks, natural selection, organisms, oxygen, oxymoron, pine tree, puppies, purpose, science of purpose, selection, sheep, speciation, Stephen Meyer, variations, water}

A New Look at Natural Selection

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 18, 2023

Biology, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations. Read More ›

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Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, artificial life, biologic institute, cells, computability, DNA, evolution, genes, genome, ID the Future, intelligent design, logic, material phenomena, organisms, podcast, Richard Sternberg}

Richard Sternberg on the Trail of the Immaterial Genome

_{Science and Culture
March 10, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Dr. Sternberg speaks on his mathematical/logical work showing the difficulty of identifying genes purely with material phenomena. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
February 23, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Medicine
Tagged
, bees, code, DNA, English, information, meaning, Michael Behe, Morse code, organisms, Peter Robinson, pollen, purpose, random processes, science of purpose, Spanish, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge}

The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
February 23, 2023

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Medicine

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These examples may seem trivial, as if they were just "the way things are," not proving anything. But this is not so. Read More ›