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Intelligent Design and Artificial Intelligence — The Connection

It seems obvious on a moment's reflection: ID and AI have something in common, and that is intelligence. Read More ›
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For Beleaguered Computer Simulations of Evolution, Can Co-Evolution Save the Day?

A familiar illustration of co-evolution is the relationship between honey bees and flowers. Read More ›
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Hype and Fearmongering About Artificial Intelligence Passes Its Sell-By Date

The attribution of superpowers to coming generations of AI machines has entered self-parody territory. Read More ›
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Conservation of Information and Coevolution: New BIO-Complexity Article by Ewert and Marks

Biologists often claim that coevolutionary interactions, as with bees and flowers, can alter the fitness landscape to drive evolutionary changes. Read More ›
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Return of the Christmas Pony – Robert Marks on Modeling Darwinian Evolution

Maybe evolution is just too complicated to model? Or maybe computer simulations have already provided a sufficient demonstration that evolution works as advertised? Read More ›
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Math, Computers, and Evolution: Robert Marks on Searches and Artificial Intelligence

Marks’s new book, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, makes an important but esoteric-sounding field accessible to the general reader. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Biologist Backs Off from Computer Simulations

PZ Myers is an atheist activist and evolutionary biologist whose blog is more about promoting his left-wing politics than it is about evolution. Read More ›
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Robert Marks on Computer Evolutionary Simulations, Science and Faith, the Limits of Artificial Intelligence, and More

You’ll enjoy his recent podcast conversation with UK interviewer Julian Charles of The Mind Renewed. Read More ›
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Why Evolution Simulations Fail: Author of Evolutionary Informatics Book Explains

Winston Ewert argues that Richard Dawkins’s “Methinks It Is Like a Weasel” simulation doesn’t prove biological evolution and isn’t even very interesting. Read More ›
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Darwinian Theory Proved by Video Game? Robert J. Marks Begs to Differ

Adaptation, if anything, demonstrates intelligent design, not Darwinism. Read More ›

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