Scientists Conclude: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

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Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Source
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Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences

abductive inference, babies, Brookings Institution, computers, Erik Larson, Go (game), Harvard University, humans, inference to the best explanation, Lawfare Blog, Löwenheim–Skolem theorem, Neuroscience & Mind, Noam Chomsky, philosophers, retroductive inference, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Willard Quine, Word and Object
If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge. Source
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Meyer, Keating: Why Was the Object of Creation So Long in Coming? And Other Good Questions

agnostics, Big Bang, Brian Keating, cosmological models, cosmology, Creation, Human Origins, humans, Intelligent Design, Judaism, Losing the Nobel Prize, Meaning, Messiah, physicists, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, purpose, rationality, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, U.C. San Diego, Young Earth Creationists
I listened in the car on my way to and from a funeral. Obviously, the end of life, like its beginning, is an occasion for pondering ultimate questions. Source
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Futuristic Evolution by AI — The Darwin Connection

Artificial Intelligence, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, computers, Darwinism, designers, Edinburgh Napier University, Emma Hart, Evolution, Fantasia, humans, ID The Future, Michael Behe, natural selection, oversight, Robert J. Marks, robots, Technology, That Hideous Strength, The Conversation, The Magician’s Twin, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Walter Bradley Center
To evolutionists, whatever oversight humans achieved must have evolved, and will continue to evolve in our creations. Source
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Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Measuring Mount Rushmore

algorithmic specified complexity, aliens, American history, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute Dallas, humanoids, humans, images, information, Intelligent Design, Mount Rushmore, pre-existing patterns, Robert J. Marks, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
A non-humanoid gelatinous alien might assign no meaning to the faces on Mount Rushmore if the alien had never seen a humanoid. Source
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Revealed: The Mystery Scientist Who Will Speak at Our Dallas Conference, February 20

Casey Luskin, Center for Science & Culture, Darwinists, Discovering Intelligent Design, Discovery Institute, doctorate, Evolution, foresight, fossil record, geologists, Human Origins, humans, Intelligent Design, Marcos Eberlin, Melissa Cain Travis, science and faith, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Meyer, Texas, universe, William Dembski
If you’re like me, you’re not good with patience — so I can finally deliver some relief. Source
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Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

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The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe. Source
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