25Apr 2024 by Post

The Joy of Purposeful Solar Eclipses

atmospheric temperatures, cameras, Cassini mission, clouds, corona, Diamond Ring, Discovery Institute, eclipse, eclipse glasses, fourth contact, Guillermo Gonzalez, heavens, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design, intelligent observers, Jay Richards, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, meteorology, moon pies, Nelson University, Pam Bailey, Physics, Earth & Space, Prometheus (moon), providence, Saturn, soccer field, Solar Eclipse Experience, sun, temperature, Texas, The Privileged Planet, Waxahachie, weather
Intelligent design advocates have more fun at eclipses, knowing they are not just coincidental. That was certainly my experience on April 8. Source
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05Sep 2023 by Post

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

"survival of the fittest", abductive inference, adaptation, blind drivers, CELS, Charles Darwin, Charles Kocher, Columbia University, Current Biology, Darwinian Evolution Machine, driver, driverless car, Engineering, equilibrium, Eric Anderson, Evolution, fitness ratcheting, fitness valleys, golfers, gravity, Herbert Spencer, ignition, Intelligent Design, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ken Dill, Mars, Mars rovers, molecular machines, New Zealand, orbits, planets, PNAS, rollercoaster, Science Advances, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selective pressure, software, sponges, TEDx talk, University of Otago, University of Sydney, Victoria University, water
What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Source
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12Apr 2022 by Post

C. S. Lewis Unmasks the Pretensions of SETI

Arecibo Message, Arecibo telescope, Argument from Reason, Artificial Intelligence, Beacon in the Galaxy, Cambridge University, chess, computer games, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, intelligent ETs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John West, Jonathan Jiang, Martin Rees, Matthew Sparkes, Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, METI, Physics, Earth & Space, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, SETI, Stephanie Pappas, Stephen Hawking, The Magician’s Twin, Voyager Golden Records, Voyager spacecraft
How can METI / SETI advocates repudiate intelligent design while depending on the design inference for their work? Source
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