Life as Computation: An AI Researcher’s (Unwitting) Argument for Intelligent Design

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How many computer geniuses did it take in order to produce even a tiny fragment of this complexity? And how great must be the mind that designed all this! Source
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Charles Marshall: Origin of Life Could Have Happened “Millions of Times”

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Charles Marshall at U.C. Berkeley represents establishment opinion in current evolutionary theory, and for good reason. Source
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Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics

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Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Source
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