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18Jul 2024 by Post

Near-Death Experiences as Possum Tales

animals, brain, Charlotte Martial, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, Grossman School of Medicine, humans, Life Sciences, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, opossum, playing dead, Rachel Nuwer, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, thanatosis

The authors provide a number of accounts from people who experienced altered consciousness when under attack by large animals. Source

15Jul 2024 by Post

When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

adaptation, catastrophe, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Dan Brooks, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, doomsday, Evolution, evolutionary biologist, Herbert Spencer, Human Extinction Movement, IIsac Asimov, MIT, persecution, Peter Watts, Salvatore J. Agosta, The Darwinian Survival Guide, The Freeze-Frame Revolution, University of Melbourne, University of Toronto

Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious. Source

07Jun 2024 by Post

The Junk Shop of Andreas Wagner

Andreas Wagner, arrival of the fittest, automobile, contraptions, Darwinian evolution, de novo genes, Evolution, Francois Jacob, gadgets, genes, Intelligent Design, junk shop, junkyard, molecular machines, predictions, Sleeping Beauties, tinkerer, William Dembski, Zeitgeist

The fundamental dilemma is this: whenever you co-opt any part from an old system and put it in a new system, there are two possibilities. Source

01Jun 2024 by Post

How the Myth of Junk DNA Hindered Science

biology, Casey Luskin, Darwinian evolution, Eric Anderson, Evolution, evolutionary narrative, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Long Story Short, materialism, non-coding DNA, Podcast, progress of science, science stopper

For decades, we’ve been told that only a tiny percentage of DNA is functional and that the vast majority is useless junk. Source

20May 2024 by Post

Phenology: The Science of Seasonal Adaptation

abiotic changes, Albert B. Phillimore, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, animals, biotic changes, calendars, California poppy blooms, caterpillars, Chaco Canyon, cicada emergences, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, Darwin’s Bluff, El Niño, Evolution, Farmer’s Almanac, foresight, genetic adaptation, herbaceous plants, Intelligent Design, Kirsty H. Macphie, La Niña, Life Sciences, locust plagues, moisture, mosquito swarms, pandemics, phenology, physiology, plants, PNAS, Robert Shedinger, sensors, Stonehenge, superblooms, temperate, temperature

No, not phrenology — phenology. It’s not pseudoscience, but a lesser-known branch of science that includes birds, bees, and trees. Source

18Apr 2024 by Post

Science Paper: Use Artificial Intelligence to Challenge Evolution

Albert Einstein, Artificial Intelligence, biologists, chess, Darwinian evolution, David Hullender, Dennis Noble, Elsevier, equations, Evolution, evolutionary models, Gregory Wray, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kevin Leland, logic, Olen Brown, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, scientific inquiry, self-assembly

The authors conclude, "It seems remote that AI would conclude that it is ‘turtles all the way down’.” Source

30Mar 2024 by Post

Can a Successful Scientist Be Self-Taught?

atmospheric science, college, Darwinian evolution, Engineering, Evolution, Forrest Mims, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, inventors, Maverick Scientist, NASA, Podcast, science degree, science writers, Scientific American, skepticism, Technology

Without a college science degree, Mims taught himself the fundamentals of engineering and atmospheric science. Source

27Feb 2024 by Post

To Dance at Two Weddings: Rope Kojonen’s Evolutionary Quest

bacterial flagellum, biological complexity, biology, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, causes, convergent evolution, Darwinian evolution, David Glass, design detection, Emily Reeves, Evolution, Evolution News, explanatory value, fine-tuning, fitness landscapes, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mutations, preconditions, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), tinkering, weddings, Zygon

According to a proverb, you can’t dance at two weddings at the same time. Dr. Kojonen believes that you can. Source

22Feb 2024 by Post

Reply to Free Will Deniers: Show Me

auto accident, behavior, Belief, brains, Chemistry, choice, Clarence Darrow, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian evolution, deterministic free will, faith, free will, free will deniers, ham sandwich, human beings, Jerry Coyne, LARPing, Ludwig Wittgenstein, materialists, Meaning, Neuroscience & Mind, parking lot, philosophers, physics, physiology, Politics, rain, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, Stephen Cave, The Blue Book

If you carelessly dent a genuine free will denier’s car in a parking lot, he wouldn’t hold you responsible any more than he’d hold your car responsible. Source

29Jan 2024 by Post

Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator

2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), Ansible, Arthur C. Clarke, artificial general intelligence, Back to the Future, Blaise Pascal, Book of Job, Cambridge University, Darwinian evolution, Dune, Einsteinian relativity, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution, Ezekiel, Frank Herbert, garden of eden, gravity, H.G. Wells, hoverboards, idolaters, invisibility cloaks, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, Isaiah, King of Tyre, large language models, light sabers, Lucifer, Morning Star, Neuroscience & Mind, Old Testament, physics, Reformation, Satan, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, teleportation, The Time Machine, Ursula K. Le Guin, wormholes, Yuval Harari

Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction? Source

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