On Intelligent Design, Wikipedia Hedges, While Grokipedia Tells (Whoa!) the Truth

Artificial Intelligence, bias, Discovery Institute, Elon Musk, encyclopedias, Evolution, facts, fine-tuning, Grok, Grokipedia, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Intelligent Design, Jarvis, Larry Sanger, Nine Theses, Philosophy of Science, pseudoscience, Reece Rogers, think tank, United States, Wikipedia, William Dembski, Wired
There is still plenty of time for Grok to be infiltrated by all kinds of bias and it would certainly be wise to keep checking back. Source
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In Study of Human Psychology, the Power of “Maybe”

Antony Flew, artifacts, brain, cave art, death, dying, Gary Wenk, graveyard, human beings, Marilyn Mendoza, Michael Egnor, Neanderthals, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Ohio State University, paleontology, periaqueductal gray, presumption of atheism, pseudoscience, psychology, Psychology Today, The Immortal Mind, There Is a God
This is not science and is not a good look for a psychology that purports to have some relationship with science. Source
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How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

Alzheimer’s disease, amino acid, Bret Weinstein, Canadian universities, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, Evolution, evolutionary biology, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Life Sciences, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, mad cow disease, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientific reasoning, scientists, variation
To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Source
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Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness

Allen Brain Institute, Allison Parshall, anatomy, COGITATE, cognition, consciousness, decisions, Denyse O'Leary, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, Intelligent Design, Michael Egnor, Nautilus, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neuroscientists, prefrontal cortex, pseudoscience, Robert Chis-Ciure, Science Daily, The Immortal Mind, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Sussex
Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Source
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Intelligent Design Is Not Just for Conservatives

1619 Project, Anglo-Saxons, Big Book, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cisnormative, conservative Christians, conservatives, Darwin’s Bluff, David Berlinski, David Moulton, Discovery Institute, Dover Area School District, Ernst Mayr, Evolution, Evolution’s Rainbow, Francis Crick, George Gaylord Simpson, H.M.S. Beagle, Holly Dunsworth, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, Intelligent Design, J.B.S. Haldane, Joan Roughgarden, Leif Jensen, liberalism, liberals, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Nikole-Hannah Jones, orchids, Origin of Species, pseudoscience, Sewell Wright, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel
After a decade of immersing myself in Darwin studies, evolutionary theory, and intelligent design, I find myself unexpectedly supportive of the iD position. Source
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Fossil Friday: When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

crest, Darren Naish, Darwinism, David Unwin, England, Evolution, flying reptiles, Fossil Friday (series), fossil recod, Intelligent Design, Kallokibotion bajadiz, Mark Norell, Mark Witten, misidentifications, neo-Darwinian evolution, Nicholas Fraser, paleontology, pseudoscience, pterosaur, Rhamphorhynchoidea, Romania, Stephen Brusatte, Thalassodromeus sethi, Thalassodromus sebesensis, Transylvania, Triassic period, vampires
Do such misidentifications and interpretational problems show that Darwinism is false and intelligent design is true? Of course not. Source
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What Is Pseudoscience? A Philosopher Tries to Figure It Out

astrology, Atheism, Christof Koch, creationism, David Chalmers, Evidence, fine-tuning, homeopathy, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Intelligent Design, Kåre Letrud, Massimo Pigliucci, Neuroscience & Mind, Nonsense on Stilts, parapsychology, philosophers, philosophical preference, Philosophy of Pseudoscience, pseudoscience, Skeptical Inquirer, UFOs
One is tempted to wonder whether “room for disagreement” is a polite term for Not Yet Cancelled. Source
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In Debate on Intelligent Design, Critic Cites Dragon Legend to Justify Evolution’s Failures

bacterial flagellum, debates, dinosaur bones, Dragon, English, Evolution, Fundacja En Arche, Holocaust, Intelligent Design, Kraków, Malgorzata Moczydlowska-Vidal, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, micropaleontology, philosophers, Poland, Polish, pseudoscience, Richard Sternberg, scientists, Silesia, Smok wawelski, Sweden, Uppsala University, virgins, Vladimir Putin, Wawel Castle, Wawel Dragon
It is, as Professor Behe acknowledges, a charming tale, but not very relevant as far as the details of the scientific debate go. Source
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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

arthropods, begging the question, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, Darwinists, Evolution, evolutionary biology, falsification, Fossil Friday, fossil record, holochroal eyes, immunization, just-so stories, materialists, Molière, opium, paleontology, phylogeny, pseudoscience, schizochroal eyes, Stephen Meyer, trilobites
The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Source
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