The hexagon on Saturn performs no function. Columnar basalt doesn’t say anything. Snowflakes don’t carry a message. They are mere emergent phenomena. Source Read More Evolution News
Category: Science
Darwin and the Ghost of Lamarck
The lure of Lamarck was exemplified most strikingly in the case of Viennese biologist Paul Kammerer and the unhappy affair of the “midwife toad.” Source Read More Evolution News
Irreducible Complexity in Ant Behavior Triggers a Recognition of Intelligent Design
Recent research draws an unapologetic parallel between human engineering and biological systems. Source Read More Evolution News
Miracle of Man: The Problem of Phosphorus
To complete the argument for prior fitness of the elements for our Privileged Species, we must deal with the availability of another essential element. Source Read More Evolution News
Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine
Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Source Read More Evolution News
Can We Eliminate the Idea of Function from Biology? A Philosopher and a Biologist Want to Try
They propose the term “biological role” instead. Thus, presumably, “the function of teeth is chewing” becomes “the biological role of teeth is chewing.” Source Read More Evolution News
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor: Humans Have Free Will
Dr. Egnor explains why the argument against free will is self-refuting and why he’s concluded that determinism as a theory in physics is dead. Source Read More Evolution News
Invitation to Jason Rosenhouse: Respond to Dembski
Nothing is more clarifying than reasoned argument, as Professor Rosenhouse appears to agree in his book. Now let’s find out what he will say. Source Read More Evolution News
For AI to Be Creative, Here’s What It Would Take
AI can appear smart when it generates a surprising result. But surprise does not equate to creativity. Source Read More Evolution News
Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse
Does it really need to be pointed out that roads are designed? That where they go is designed? And that even badly laid out roads are laid out by design?…