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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

17Jan 2024 by Post

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

1984, Ahmed Shaheed, antiracists, Bertrand Russell, Big Brother, C.S. Lewis, causation, clinical psychology, Darwinian evolution, Enlightenment, Evolution, free speech, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, Keith Stanovich, law enforcement, mental fertility, mental immunity, mental integrity, mental privacy, Miracles (book), neuropsychology, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Caputo, North Korea, nudging, Simon McCarthy-Jones, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, thoughtspeech, Timothy Stratton, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson

An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Source

14Dec 2023 by Post

Hitting the Brakes on “Rapid Evolution”

Ann Gauger, Bijan Nemati, biochemical weapons, Culture, Darwinian evolution, Defense Intelligence Agency, DNA, E. coli, engineers, Eric Anderson, Evolution, extinction, Idaho, Intelligent Design, Iraq, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, mutations, Richard Lenski, Scott Minnich, Why It Matters

Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski hopes to demonstrate Darwinian evolution in action. But one humble scientist from Northern Idaho says not so fast! Source

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