Tag: Santa Fe Institute

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
September 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, blood pressure, blood vessels, cell membranes, cellular biology, cytoskeleton, death, DNA, Douglas Axe, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary biology, evolutionists, gene regulatory networks, genes, heart rate, hospice, James Tour, laws of nature, Marcos Eberlin, molecular biology, multicellular organism, muscle cells, RNA, Santa Fe Institute, The Extracellular Space (series), water, Your Designed Body}

Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity

_{Howard Glicksman
September 3, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Technology

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It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, amino acids, assemblages, assembly, atoms, BIO-Complexity, biosignatures, blueprint, CAD/CAM, cell death, complexity, crystals, fingers, Lee Cronin, Lego, Leslie Orgel, molecules, Nature (journal), peptide bond, Professor Dave, Santa Fe Institute, Sara Walker, The Origins of Life, theoretical biology}

Disassembling Lee Cronin’s Assembly Theory

_{William A. Dembski
July 26, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

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When I read the Assembly Theory literature and studied the details of the theory, I was frankly shocked to see how devoid it is of substance and insight. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, evolution, fiction, humans, Lawrence Krauss, literature, mathematician, Melissa Cain Travis, novelists, physical reality, physicists, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Institute, scientists, Stella Maris, Stephen Meyer, The Passenger, The Road, unguided processes}

“Would Mathematics Be Here if We Weren’t?”

_{Peter Biles
June 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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In December, physicist and author Lawrence Krauss interviewed the late American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13th at the age of 89. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial life, avida, Conservation of Information, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Hamlet, information, intelligence, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Peter Medawar, Santa Fe Institute, The Blind Watchmaker, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William Shakespeare}

Conservation of Information — The Idea

_{William A. Dembski
June 30, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef. Read More ›

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Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Bobby Azarian, brain, Carnegie Mellon University, consciousness, feedback loops, information, machines, materialism, mind, neurons, neuroscientists, Santa Fe Institute, self, self-organization theory, self-reference, split brain}

Can Self-Organization Theory Account for Consciousness?

_{Science and Culture
June 13, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

One difficulty is that many humans produce a “self” with split brains, a brain missing key components, or half a brain. That’s not consistent with materialism. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chloroplasts, Current Biology, David Wolpert, evolution, Francis Bacon, Heidelberg University, heterochromatin, information flow, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, jumping genes, junk DNA, kinesin, mechanical philosophy, Nobel Prize, open reading frame, Prime Mover, proteins, Ribosome, Robert Boyle, robotics, Rockefeller University, Salk Institute, Santa Fe Institute, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University, William A. Dembski, William Paley}

Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How?

_{David Coppedge
May 13, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

11}

We’re going to need a new philosophy: one that can handle realities the Elizabethans and Victorians could never have imagined. Read More ›

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Date
July 14, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Arizona State University, astrobiologists, information, intelligence, intelligent design, Lee Cronin, Lex Fridman, physicists, reality, Santa Fe Institute, Sara Walker}

Sara Walker: Intelligent Design without Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
July 14, 2021

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

We’ll be watching Walker’s publications to see how much farther she can move in the direction of ID. Read More ›

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Date
January 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, deception, Dollo’s Law, Duke University, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary biology, fruit flies, genes, Icarus, Indiana University, PNAS, positive selection, Santa Fe Institute, selection, skin color, UC Berkeley, University of Zurich, word salad, Yale University}

Juggling Terms to Maintain the Illusion of Darwinian Selection

_{Science and Culture
January 28, 2021

Evolution

8}

Evolutionists do not mind if selection goes forward, backward, up, down or sideways, as long as Darwin’s honor is maintained. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 23, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, crime, Darwinism, Guillermo Gonzalez, Harvard University, intelligent design, Jeffrey Epstein, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, MIT, Richard Sternberg, Santa Fe Institute, scientists, Sherlock Holmes, transhumanism, William A. Dembski}

#10 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Jeffrey Epstein and the Silence of the Scientists

_{Michael Egnor
December 23, 2019

Bioethics

7}

It is, I believe, a revelation about our scientific culture and particularly about the trust we should place in a “science consensus” that should shake us to our bones. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 24, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, crime, Darwinism, Guillermo Gonzalez, Harvard University, intelligent design, Jeffrey Epstein, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, MIT, Richard Sternberg, Santa Fe Institute, scientists, Sherlock Holmes, transhumanism, William A. Dembski}

Jeffrey Epstein and the Silence of the Scientists

_{Michael Egnor
September 24, 2019

Bioethics

6}

It is, I believe, a revelation about our scientific culture and particularly about the trust we should place in a “science consensus” that should shake us to our bones. Read More ›