Tag: simulations

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 19, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ALife, Armageddon, artificial life, bombers, bootstrappers, Christoph Adami, computer code, computer models, Core War, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, evolution, guidance, hydras, imps, intelligent design, Michael Behe, non-intervention, pit-trappers, quickscanners, replicators, scanners, simulations, The Evolution of Biological Information, Tierra, VENUS (simulation)}

Simulations Point to Design: Learning from the History of Artificial Life

_{Winston Ewert
August 19, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Once you introduce step-by-step guidance, you are no longer simulating an evolutionary process. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
December 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, artificial intelligence, brain, butterflies, creativity, DNA, embryonic development, flowers, large language models, nucleotides, origami, simulations, spinal cord}

Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
December 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities. Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Assembly Theory, biological complexity, biological information, biosignatures, functional information, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, intelligent design, James Tour, Lee Cronin, NASA, natural selection, simulations, Steven Benner, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski}

Cronin-Tour at Harvard: How Researchers Smuggle Design into Their Theories

_{Brian Miller
December 12, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

Cronin presented his Assembly Theory as a framework for understanding life’s origin. I believe he is correct but not in the way he intends. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 3, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, biologists, Charles Darwin, common descent, complexity, computer scientists, Darwinian evolution, dependency graph, engines, evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, human intelligence, intelligent design, Michael Behe, natural selection, simulations, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, Winston Ewert}

Why We Don’t Evolve Software: A Computer Scientist Considers Darwinian Theory

_{Science & Culture
January 3, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Software engineers are trained in design principles, and also have real experience of how complex functional systems appear and change constructively. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
September 23, 2016

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, evolutionary informatics, hallucinations, Hamlet, information theory, Richard Dawkins, simulations, The Blind Watchmaker, thought experiment, Weasel program, William Shakespeare}

Richard Dawkins’s Weasel Program Is Bad in Ways You Never Dreamed

_{Jonathan Witt
September 23, 2016

Arts, Bioethics, Computational Sciences, Evolution

9}

His reductive approach causes him to miss a delicious irony. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 10, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, __tedited, DNA code, genes, junk DNA, Richard Dawkins, scientific advance, selfish genes, simulations}

Richard Dawkins’s Publisher Has a Cute Idea, but Biomorphs Appeal More as Nostalgia than Science

_{David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2016

Computational Sciences, Evolution

4}

The biomorphs are "digital animals...grounded in 1970s assumptions," long outdated. Read More ›