data Type post Author Peter Biles Date August 31, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , artificial intelligence, computer science, COSM, Dataism, Harvard University Press, human nature, humanism, Latin, Reductionism, Renaissance, Sam Altman, Substack, The Atlantic, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Wired, Yuval Harari Can Everything Be Reduced to Data? Peter Biles August 31, 2023 Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind 5 "Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism." Read More ›
car break-in Type post Author Elizabeth Whately Date August 13, 2021 CategoriesIntelligent DesignPhilosophy Tagged , aliens, background knowledge, car break-in, debate, Fran Lebowitz, inference to the best explanation, James Croft, motives, philosophers, reductio ad absurdum, Return of the God Hypothesis, skeptics, Stephen Meyer, Substack, William A. Dembski Croft, Continued: More Thoughts on Meyer’s Debate with a Skeptic Elizabeth Whately August 13, 2021 Intelligent Design, Philosophy 6 I think he’s mistaken my emphasis in the specific car break-in examples I gave, namely that the burglars’ behavior was odd and unpredictable. Read More ›
baby and puppy Type post Author Elizabeth Whately Date August 6, 2021 CategoriesFaith & ScienceIntelligent Design Tagged , Bayesian reasoning, car break-in, Charles Lyell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Croatia, Fran Lebowitz, God Hypothesis, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, James Croft, Lydia McGrew, masks, Michael Scriven, philosophers, puppy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Substack God Hypothesis: The Problem of Background Knowledge Elizabeth Whately August 6, 2021 Faith & Science, Intelligent Design 8 The wet-washcloth sensation of puppy tongue on baby cheeks is part of the baby’s evidence that Puppy exists. Read More ›
Meyer book background image Type post Author Elizabeth Whately Date August 2, 2021 CategoriesFaith & ScienceIntelligent DesignOrigin of LifePhilosophy Tagged , abduction, Bayesian reasoning, computer code, David Berlinski, David Glass, deductive proof, God Hypothesis, inference to the best explanation, intelligent agency, intelligent design, James Croft, likelihood ratio, philosophers, probability, probability bound, Return of the God Hypothesis, St. Louis, Stephen Meyer, Substack, syllogism, Unbelievable, universal probability bound, William A. Dembski Stephen Meyer, James Croft: Philosophers Battle Over the God Hypothesis Elizabeth Whately August 2, 2021 Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy 7 Croft ultimately had the worse of the argument on substance, as I intend to show over several forthcoming posts. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer Type post Author Elizabeth Whately Date May 1, 2021 CategoriesFaith & Science Tagged , atheism, Blaise Pascal, Bret Weinstein, Christopher Hitchens, Evergreen State College, human nature, Jonathan Haidt, New Atheists, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Substack, theists Where Steve Meyer Agrees with an Atheist Marxist Elizabeth Whately May 1, 2021 Faith & Science 5 The New Atheism is dead, or so maverick writer Freddie deBoer argues. But that doesn’t mean the New Atheists lost. Read More ›