In NY Post, McDiarmid on Social Isolation and the Tech Nightmare

AI necklace, Andrew McDiarmid, anti-social media, artificial inteligence, Computational Sciences, emailing, friend (tech device), friends, human interaction, humans, new york, New York Post, nightmares, personality, Silicon Valley, smartphones, Social media, startups, statistics, subway ads, surveillance, Technology, texting, The Atlantic, voice
The wearable AI necklace, Friend, opens up a whole new chapter of horror. It’s not a parody: young people wear their “Friend” on their person. Source
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Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves

Africa, beneficial mutations, biology, C-Harlem, cellular networks, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Dave Farina, de novo genes, degradation, Educating Dave Farina (series), Evolution, expression, generation time, genetics, information, insults, loss of function, Michael Behe, misrepresentations, name-calling, neofunctionalization, neutral mutations, non-coding DNA, population genetics, probabilistic resources, protein folding, pseudogenes, purifying selection, strawman, The Edge of Evolution, unguided processes, YouTubers
Farina’s response to my previous series is characterized by misrepresentations, selective engagement, and reliance on insults and name-calling. Source
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17-Year-Old Tech Prodigy Explains What Every Christian Needs to Know About AI with Nathan & Natasha Crain

AI Worldview, Artificial Intelligence, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, morality, Natasha Crain, Nathan Crain, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
AI can write your emails, summarize a book, help with homework, and apparently become your girlfriend. Should Christians be excited, concerned, or maybe a little bit of both? Frank sits down with 17-year-old tech prodigy Nathan, his mom Natasha Crain, and Phoenix Hayes to discuss what AI can do, what it can’t do, and the worldview assumptions hiding beneath the technology that has taken over our lives seemingly overnight. Together, they tackle questions like: What sparked Nathan’s interest in technology in third grade, and what has he learned along the way? What are some of the worldview and moral assumptions behind many of the different AI platforms? Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, Dominion…what’s the difference, and what exactly is an LLM? How should Christians use AI–if at all? What are some…
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In Defense of The Edge of Evolution, a Response to Dave Farina

bacteria, biology, Cit+, complex molecular interactions, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Dave Farina, Educating Dave Farina (series), eukaryotes, Evolution, fitness landscapes, generation time, genetics, genomes, HIV, mammals, Michael Behe, mutation rates, mutations, patients, population sizes, proteins, The Edge of Evolution, viruses, Vpu, YouTubers
If evolution is capable of producing complex molecular interactions, the place where we would most expect to find them is in viruses like HIV. Source
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How Irreducible Complexity Can Help with Cancer Drug Research

AlphaFold3, apoptosis, bioinformatic data, cancer, cancer cells, carboxy-terminal domain, cell death, cell's, chemotherapy, chromatin, Darwin's Black Box, DNA, DNA replication, double helix, enzymes, Freed-Hardeman University, Intelligent Design, intrinsically disordered regions, Irreducible Complexity, isoforms, Joe Deweese, Medicine, mutants, proteins, replication, TOP2A, TOP2B, topoisomerases, toxic side effects
Topoisomerases are molecular machines that play a critical role in resolving DNA tangles and supercoiling generated during DNA replication. Source
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Simulations Point to Design: Learning from the History of Artificial Life

ALife, Armageddon, artificial life, bombers, bootstrappers, Christoph Adami, Computational Sciences, 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)
Once you introduce step-by-step guidance, you are no longer simulating an evolutionary process. Source
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Answering Dave Farina on the Lenski Experiment

amplification, bacterial cells, citrate, citT, Dave Farina, dctA, DNA, Educating Dave Farina (series), Escherichia coli, Evolution, genes, genetics, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, mutations, neutral mutations, Richard Lenski, rnk, Scott Minnich, The Edge of Evolution, YouTubers
Farina offers the Lenski experiment as a purported counterexample to irreducible complexity. Source
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New Light on Dark Energy Points to Our Privileged Space

accelerationism, Arizona, astronomy, Cambridge University, chemical composition, cosmological constant, cosmology, dark energy, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, expansion rate, fine-tuning, galaxies, gamma ray bursts, Kitt Peak, Lambda Cold Dark Matter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, measurements, Michael Levi, Milky Way, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, optical fibers, position, standard model of cosmology, telescope, universe, velocity, ΛCDM
Modern astronomy relies not only on bigger telescopes and more sophisticated instruments, but upon computational power. Source
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Are We Living in Satan’s “Short Time” that is Mentioned in Revelation 20:3?

Apologetics, Christianity, Clar Moghadam, ConvincingProof.org, end times, eschatology, Gospel, Postmillenialism, Revelation 20:3, Theology and Christian Apologetics
[Editor’s Note: Crossexamined takes no specific position on end times theology except for what historic Christianity requires: future judgment, Christ’s return, resurrection, heaven, hell, and the inspiration of Scripture. Among the leading schools of thought are: premillenialism, postmillennialism, and amillenialism. This blog post, from ConvincingProof.org, reflects a postmillennial position – wherein Christ’s return will be after the “millennium” which they understand to be a non-literal reference to “a long time.” Postmillennialists often teach that there is or will be a blossoming “golden age” leading up to Christ’s return, and some include Christian Nationalism as part of that golden age (ex., Doug Wilson)] Question: “I have been studying Postmillennialism and have held firmly to this position for some time now. However, I have recently come across an eschatological position that has…
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Human Evolution Needs Subhumans, and Needs Them Badly

Amazon, archeology, Ascent of Man, astrobiology, China, Cultural Anthropology, Darwinian evolution, Eurasia, evolutionary psychology, forebears, genomes, glaciers, Greece, Human Origins and Anthropology, Jonathan Cheng, Matthew Phelan, Neanderthals, rainforest, Ross Andersen, Sanxingdui, Stone Age, subhumans, The Atlantic, UC Berkeley, Wall Street Journal
Excavation of Neanderthal and other sites is leveling even further the fabled Ascent of Man. Source
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