Tag: Silicon Valley

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 16, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Computational Sciences
Tagged
, accelerationism, Alex Williams, artificial intelligence, death, Elon Musk, Grokipedia, human beings, human exceptionalism, human life, machines, Monash University, Netscape, Nick Land, Nick Srnicek, philosophy, Ray Kurzweil, Silicon Valley, Singularity, superintelligence, tech entrepreneurs, transhumanism, Tucker Carlson, Vincent Lê}

“Accelerating” Toward a Post-Human Future, and Loving It

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 16, 2026

Bioethics, Computational Sciences

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There is a lot of AI Apocalypse Now! and AI Utopia Soon! in the news these days. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, George Church, information, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Michael Ruse, money, Moon, Perry Marshall, phlogiston, phrenology, Richard Dawkins, rockets, Silicon Valley, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski}

Origin of Life Challenge: $10 Million, Just Lying Around

_{Daniel Witt
January 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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This is an obvious way to judge such theories. If someone claims to know how to make something, the natural response is, “Let’s see it, then.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Education
Technology
Tagged
, algorithms, An Idol for Destruction (series), Aristotle, artificial general intelligence, chess, children, computers, Dante Alighieri, education, farming, happiness, humans, humility, iPhones, machines, peace, Silicon Valley, social media}

Artificial General Intelligence: Destroying the Idol

_{William A. Dembski
February 7, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Education, Technology

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Even those doing the most to build and publicize the AGI idol do not wish it on their children. Read More ›

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Date
June 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, cells, Crossway, Douglas Axe, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, molecular biologists, natural selection, podcast, random mutation, Silicon Valley, smartphone, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Listen: Carbon Valley Trumps Silicon Valley

_{Science & Culture
June 10, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

1}

“Nobody doubts that natural selection and random mutation is a biological process. What we doubt is that they can generate fundamentally new forms of life.” Read More ›

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Date
September 18, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Darwinism, Forensics, intelligent design, Mind Matters, Nature (journal), peer review, PNAS, Robert J. Marks II, Silicon Valley, William A. Dembski}

Detecting Malicious Intent in Undisputed Design

_{Science & Culture
September 18, 2021

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Within clearly designed objects, malicious intents can lurk. Intelligent design theory handles those, too, and should. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 11, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", carbon, Douglas Axe, ID the Future, intelligent design, invention, podcast, Silicon Valley, Stephen Meyer}

“Poor Design”? Human Versus Biological Invention

_{David Klinghoffer
September 11, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design

1}

Let’s compare the most ingenious technological inventions — from Silicon Valley, for example — with the inventions inscribed in carbon in “simple cells.” Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 25, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, genetic engineering, George Bernard Shaw, history, J.B.S. Haldane, Silicon Valley, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism

_{James A. Herrick
August 25, 2020

Bioethics

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I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 24, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, artificial intelligence, Bellevue, Center for Science and Culture, chess, currency, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, Facebook, George Gilder, intelligent design, Microsoft, money, Silicon Valley, Steve Forbes, trust, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski}

COSM Conference: A Bonfire for Tech Vanities

_{David Klinghoffer
October 24, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

3}

Peter Thiel assailed the “Atheist Church,” as he calls the universities, calling for outsiders to push for a reformation that the academic priesthood will never undertake on its own. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, astrology, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Claremont Review of Books, David Gelernter, DNA, Jeffrey Epstein, materialism, Michael Egnor, New Atheism, Psalms, scientism, Silicon Valley, Steven Pinker, transhumanism, Yale University, Yuval Harari}

David Goldman on Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Physics

4}

Against the backdrop of materialist science’s failure, what accounts for the rise of modern determinist mythologies, led by astrology and transhumanism? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 28, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, Bradley Center, Dallas, George Gilder, Jay Richards, Karl Marx, Mars, Marxism, Robert J. Marks II, Silicon Valley, work}

Gilder: AI and the Return of the Marxist Utopia

_{David Klinghoffer
April 28, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

2}

In this vision, thanks to AI, work is to become an obsolete concept as we all sit around on the beach collecting a monthly paycheck from the government. Read More ›