Tag: poetry

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 14, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Mathematics
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, Analytical Engine, artificial intelligence, cancer, Charles Babbage, chatbots, Difference Engine, ELIZA, George Byron, imagination, Joseph Weizenbaum, Luigi Menabrea, mechanical computer, Mechanical Turk, MIT, poetry, technology, thinking machines}

Ada Lovelace: A Poetic Approach to Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 14, 2026

Computational Sciences, Mathematics

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Today, I want to share a few insights from another notable figure in the history of computing and artificial intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, British Association, Cambridge University, cancer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cecil J. Monro, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, configurational entropy, cosmology, Daniel Silver, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, fine-tuning, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, Maxwell’s demon, molecules, Origin of Species, pain, Pangenesis, physics, poetry, punishment, Red Lions, science stopper, thermodynamics, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism}

Post-Darwin, Too, Maxwell Drew a Remarkable Design Inference

_{David Coppedge
April 3, 2026

History of Science, Intelligent Design

11}

So far we detect significant prescience about intelligent design in Maxwell’s thought. He all but uses the phrase himself. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
February 25, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animals, arithmetic, artificial inteligence, attention, bigram model, Claude, Claude Shannon, coherence, comprehension, computer code, conversations, Data Processing Inequality, disinformation, embedding, English, fish, food, functional capability, games, generative AI systems, GPT-5, humans, incompleteness theorem, information theory, Kurt Gödel, large language models, mathematical reasoning, model collapse, music, numbers, pixels, poetry, processing, prompts, reasoning, René Magritte, semantics, statistical patterns, syntax, The Treachery of Images, tokens, vectors, video, William Shakespeare, word approximation, words}

Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally

_{George Montañez
February 25, 2026

Computational Sciences, Human Exceptionalism

9}

The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, bioethics, biology, Christians, Christopher Columbus, computer science, Copernicus, cosmology, evolution, Galileo Galilei, Genesis, genomes, Google, history, history of science, intelligent design, Mount Doom, natural philosophy, poetry, religion, Robert J. Marks II, skeptics, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, Winston Ewert}

Science Before the Rise of Modern Science

_{William A. Dembski
October 27, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science

25}

An interview with Winston Ewert about his fascinating new book on the interaction between science and faith before Copernicus. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Asa Gray, Bible, California, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Genesis, Hamlet, Hebrew Bible, Higher Criticism, James Moore, Journal of Researches, miracles, Mircea Eliade, On the Origin of Species, poetry, Pyrrho, Robert Fitzroy, secularism, St. Paul, William Paley}

With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

_{Neil Thomas
July 3, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

19}

In what follows I pose the question of how Darwin fell subject to such wide “fluctuations” in his beliefs and how he came to resolve those tensions. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, clouds, corona, Dallas, Discovery Institute, gold, heart, light, mind, Moon, planets, poetry, sky, solar eclipse, soul, sun, totality, Waxahachie}

Solar Eclipse Right Brain Meanderings

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 11, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

4}

Monday in Waxahachie started grey and misty. The forecast for the time of totality was still uncertain. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, complexity, Dave Farina, English, improbability, information theory, intuition, Mount Rushmore, poetry, poker, probability, Professor Dave, royal flush, specification, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), Star Wars, The Design Inference, Theodore Roosevelt}

Intuitive Specified Complexity: A User-Friendly Account

_{William A. Dembski
February 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

At this early stage in the discussion, however, it seems wise to lay out specified complexity in a convenient non-technical way. Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, Antony Flew, atheism, Bertrand Russell, Darwinian materialism, evolution, geneticists, ID the Future, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

_{Science & Culture
January 14, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, egg, English literature, human life, intelligent design, materialism, Mere Christianity, poetry, The Magician's Twin, theism, theology}

Remembering C. S. Lewis on Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 22, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

Lewis died on this day, November 22, sixty year ago in 1963. He frequently examined the impact of modern science on human life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, Africa, Casey Luskin, consciousness, evolutionary biology, fish, fossil record, gestation, Gregory Chaitin, hominins, human intelligence, human mind, human origins, Israel, meat, mollusks, Neanderthals, pain, poetry, pseudoscience, tools}

The Human Mind Has No History

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›