15Sep 2024 by Post

Is NASA in a Slump?

Andrew Jones, Anthi Koskina, Axiom Space, Blue Origin, CNN, Elon Musk, Facebook, Intelligent Design, International Space Station, Jackie Wattles, Joel Achenbach, Manolis Plionis, Moon, NASA, Physics, Earth & Space, planet, Rocket Lab, Sarah “Cooper” Gillis, science fiction, Sierra Space, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Washington Post
NASA is outsourcing a good deal now to private industry. The trouble is, it’s hard to attract creative engineers to a job supervising the work of others. Source
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29Jan 2024 by Post

Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator

2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), Ansible, Arthur C. Clarke, artificial general intelligence, Back to the Future, Blaise Pascal, Book of Job, Cambridge University, Darwinian evolution, Dune, Einsteinian relativity, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution, Ezekiel, Frank Herbert, garden of eden, gravity, H.G. Wells, hoverboards, idolaters, invisibility cloaks, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, Isaiah, King of Tyre, large language models, light sabers, Lucifer, Morning Star, Neuroscience & Mind, Old Testament, physics, Reformation, Satan, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, teleportation, The Time Machine, Ursula K. Le Guin, wormholes, Yuval Harari
Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction? Source
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25Jan 2024 by Post

Science or Science Fiction? Scientists Debate

Ancient Apocalypse, ancient civilization, Andrew McDiarmid, archeology, Aylin Woodward, burials, Casey Luskin, Culture & Ethics, Daniel Sandweiss, documentaries, East Carolina University, Graham Hancock, graves, Homo naledi, Human Origins, ID The Future, Lee Berger, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Netflix, News Media, paleontology, Rising Star Cave, science fiction, Scientific American, Society for American Archaeology, The Guardian, Unknown: Cave of Bones, Wall Street Journal
Should some Netflix documentaries be labeled science fiction? Two are currently targeted by researchers in paleontology and archeology respectively. Source
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03Sep 2021 by Post

“Do You Believe in Evolution?” A Short Answer

automobiles, bats, BIO-Complexity, cars, classes, convergence, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, dependency graph, dolphins, Dutch, echolocation, English, Evolution, genes, George Gaylord Simpson, Harvard University, Intelligent Design, orders, phyla, Polish, science fiction, software, Spanish, Technology, Tree of Life, Why Evolution Is Different, Winston Ewert
You don't have time to give a 30-minute answer outlining the different meanings of the word "evolution" and the evidence pro and con for each. Source
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13Dec 2020 by Post

Darwinism, Storytelling, and the Futurist ET Myth

2001: A Space Odyssey, Africa, Bible, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian materialism, domino, English literature, Flannery O’Connor, futurist ET myth, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H.G. Wells, human brain, Human Origins, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jacques Derrida, John Milton, John Updike, Michael Keas, monolith, quantum leap, Robert Ardrey, Roland Barthes, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick, Texas, The Territorial Imperative, The Time Machine, Unbelievable?, weapons
The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power. Source
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12Dec 2020 by Post

Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

"survival of the fittest", 2001: A Space Odyssey, civilization, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, Émile Zola, Evolution, extinction, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, humans, Jack London, literature, mutation, natural science, natural selection, naturalism, Paul Bowles, Robert Ardrey, Sam Peckinpah, science fiction, screenwriters, sheep, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Crane, The Paris Review, The Sheltering Sky, The Time Machine, The Wild Bunch, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Hardy, violence
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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23Oct 2020 by Post

Against the Tide: Oxford’s John Lennox Describes Kinship with C. S. Lewis

2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, Against the Tide, Alvin Plantinga, atheists, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, Discovery Institute, England, faith, Faith & Science, John Lennox, Lennox Q&A, mathematics, naturalism, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, rationality, science, science fiction, Stephen Meyer, That Hideous Strength, Thomas Nagel
"I owe him an immense amount because although he wasn’t a scientist, he understood science. He understood the implications and the philosophy of science." Source
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