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28Jan 2022 by Post

For Darwin, Timing Was Everything

Bible, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Christianity, Christianity Not Mysterious, Culture & Ethics, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, deism, demythologization, Enlightenment, Essays and Reviews, Evolution, faith, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, John Toland, Ludwig Feuerbach, On Liberty, On the Origin of Species, Owen Chadwick, philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Wilberforce, secularization, The Essence of Christianity, Thucydides

Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it? Source

16Dec 2021 by Post

Evolutionary Biologist Richard Sternberg: Why I’m a Platonist

Aristotle, Aristotle and Other Platonists, biology, demiurge, Evolution, fossil record, Genesis, information, Intelligent Design, Lloyd Gerson, natural world, philosophy, Platonists, population genetics, Richard Sternberg, Science Uprising, Stephen Meyer, Timaeus, University of Toronto, waiting-time problem

The evolutionary turns that life has taken, he says, “ultimately have their source in an informational realm that is outside space and time.” Source

17Nov 2021 by Post

Harvard U Press Computer Science Author Gives AI a Reality Check

algebra, ambiguity, artificial general intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, audience, computer science, computers, COSM 2021, Discovery Institute, Erik Larson, grocery store, Harvard University Press, humans, Jeopardy, Neuroscience & Mind, News Media, philosophy, reality check, superintelligence, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

The key missing ingredient in machine intelligence is the ability to appreciate context, do analysis, and make appropriate inferences. Source

22Oct 2021 by Post

Where and What Is Consciousness?

Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, brain, cerebral cortex, consciousness, Evolution, Jerry Coyne, Mark Solms, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophy, physicalism, robots, Science Uprising, The Hidden Spring, Thomas Aquinas

If humans are just “robots made of meat,” then the seat of consciousness ought to be locatable somewhere in the brain. Source

28Sep 2021 by Post

Brian Miller: The Physics of God

atheists, beginning, Big Bang, Brian Miller, college, cosmology, Duke University, Faith & Science, high school, Intelligent Design, John Lennox, philosophy, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Science Uprising, scientists, Stephen Meyer, students, theism, YouTube videos

In just 18 minutes, Miller lays to rest any reasonable doubts that our universe must have had a beginning. As in, “In the beginning.” Source

13Aug 2021 by Post

Croft, Continued: More Thoughts on Meyer’s Debate with a Skeptic

aliens, background knowledge, car break-in, debate, Fran Lebowitz, IBE, inference to the best explanation, Intelligent Design, James Croft, motives, philosophers, philosophy, reductio ad absurdum, Return of the God Hypothesis, sensory experience, Skeptics, Stephen Meyer, Substack, William Dembski, windshield

I think he’s mistaken my emphasis in the specific car break-in examples I gave, namely that the burglars’ behavior was odd and unpredictable. Source

17Jun 2021 by Post

Meyer: Is Intelligent Design Incompatible with Thomism?

Catholicism, Center for Science & Culture, cosmic fine-tuning, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, ID The Future, Pat Flynn, philosophers, philosophy, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, universe

Pat Flynn and Stephen Meyer also discuss the beginning of the universe and the fine-tuning of the cosmos for life. Source

01May 2021 by Post

Meyer, Turek: Questions and Answers about the God Hypothesis

cosmology, faith, Faith & Science, Frank Turek, Hope One, origin of life, philosophy, Podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, RNA world, Stephen Meyer, theology

Frank Turek has some very thoughtful young viewers. Follow the questions from about 40 minutes on. Source

20Apr 2021 by Post

Automated Driving and Other Failures of AI

Artificial Intelligence, automated driving, automation, Big Tech, computer science, deep learning, Erik Larson, Eugene Goostman, eye contact, Google, gorillas, human guidance, machine learning, Moldova, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophy, self-driving cars, Tay, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, traffic

It would be interesting to see what fully automated driving would look like in a place like Moldova. Source

13Mar 2021 by Post

Stephen Meyer and J. P. Moreland Take on Theistic Evolution and Materialism

Crossway, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, J.P. Moreland, logic, materialism, philosophers, philosophy, science, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution

They also answer logical challenges directed at intelligent design theory and highlight crucial problems with thinking that science thrives best on its own. Source

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