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02Oct 2026 by Post

An Elevator Pitch About What Information Is

communication, elevator pitch, epistemologists, Fred Dretske, information, Inquiry (book), Intelligent Design, John Archibald Wheeler, John Horgan, Logic and the Flow of Information, MIT, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalists, physical causality, possibilities, Robert Stalnaker, Scientific American, scientific reasoning, semantic content, Shannon information, Stanford University, teleology

The conception of information as ruling out possibilities allows for teleological as well as non-teleological processes to generate information. Source

01Apr 2026 by Post

A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

amino acids, bacteria, biological engineering, biology, Boris Zinshteyn, codons, combinations, degeneracy, dormancy, Francis Crick, function, genes, genetic code, genetics, hypoxia, Intelligent Design, mismatch, MIT, Mycobacterium bovis, oxygen, Peter Dedon, PNAS, predictions, proteins, Rachel Green, redundancy, Science (journal), Scripps Research Institute, transfer RNA

The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Source

21Feb 2025 by Post

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

affective computing, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Charlie Townes, clash, Culture & Ethics, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Faith & Science, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Ide P. Trotter Sr., Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Micah Green, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rosalind Picard, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, The End of Christianity, The Third Way of Evolution, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist

A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Source

16Sep 2024 by Post

Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function

Alex Holehouse, AlphaFold, antibiotics, ATP synthase, biophysicists, botanis, Brownian motion, Caltech, car jacks, cell's, conformations, cytoplasm, Duke University, electrostatic conditions, eric hedin, Gabriella Heller, Intelligent Design, intrinsically disordered proteins, kinesin, Life Sciences, Maxwell’s demon, MIT, molecular machines, noncoding RNAs, nucleus, pollen grains, proteins, Robert Brown, Robert Shedinger, Scotsmen, socket wrenches, solubility, The Scientist, Washington University

In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes. 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

19Apr 2024 by Post

Farewell to Daniel Dennett

aquatic ape, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, Elaine Morgan, Evolution, evolutionary anthropologists, iconoclasts, Intelligent Design, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Paul Nelson, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins, smooth skin, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent

Dennett noted that Paul Nelson and I were in the audience and would be speaking at Tufts that evening on intelligent design. Source

01Apr 2024 by Post

Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm

aquatic ape, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, Elaine Morgan, Evolution, evolutionary anthropologists, iconoclasts, Intelligent Design, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins, smooth skin, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent

I’ve had two memorable encounters with Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, one with Dennett alone, the other with both together. Source

17Dec 2023 by Post

Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

academia, administrators, Andrew McDiarmid, biology, CNN, DEI, Education, Fareed Zakaria, free speech, gender, genocide, Harvard University, historians, humanities, ID The Future, intelligent causes, Jules Michelet, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, MIT, Monopoly, natural causes, Peggy Noonan, Podcast, professors, Race, red pill, scholars, silver lining, tenure, Testimony, Trivial Pursuit, universities, University of Pennsylvania, Wall Street Journal, woke ideology, Worldview

The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Source

15Nov 2023 by Post

James Tour and Lee Cronin to Discuss Origin of Life at Harvard Roundtable

Cambridge Faculty Roundtable on Science and Religion, Events, Evolution, faculty, Harvard University, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Lee Cronin, MIT, origin of life, roundtable

Props to Professor Lee Cronin for agreeing to participate. Wish you could be a fly on the wall? Here's good news. Source

07Jul 2023 by Post

Ovid in His Exile

American Sign Language, animals, chimpanzees, Columbia University, Darwinian theory, David Premack, Dogs, dolphins, Evolution, facial expressions, gestures, great apes, Herbert Terrace, Human Origins, humans, Jesuits, Lipman Bers, mathematicians, MIT, Penny Peterson, puppy, San Diego, Schermerhorn Hall, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania

Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University was the scene of many strange experiments. Source

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