The ELIZA program, acting as a Rogerian therapist, simply mirrors back to the human what the human says. Source Read More Evolution News
Category: Science
Meyer: Quantum Cosmology, the Multiverse, and Stephen Hawking
Newton, Kepler, and other founders of modern science were inspired to search out and find the rational order hidden in nature because they were theists. Source Read More Evolution News
Meyer: Why the Return of the God Hypothesis?
What is the “God hypothesis”? What happened to it, and when, so that it needed to stage a dramatic return? Source Read More Evolution News
Automated Driving and Other Failures of AI
It would be interesting to see what fully automated driving would look like in a place like Moldova. Source Read More Evolution News
Artificial Intelligence: Unseating the Inevitability Narrative
World-class chess, Go, and Jeopardy-playing programs are impressive, but they prove nothing about whether computers can be made to achieve AGI. Source Read More Evolution News
Why the Universe Itself Can’t Be the Most Fundamental Thing
Imagine a chain hanging from the sky supporting a weight suspended in the air. Each link in the chain is a cause for the continued suspension of the links. Source…
Dinosaurs and More: Bechly on the Fossil Record vs. Neo-Darwinism
The evidence includes “explosions,” “jumps,” and “revolutions” in the history of life that cannot be explained given the assumption of Darwinian gradualism. Source Read More Evolution News
Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum
Scientists who label intelligent design as a “God of the gaps” argument are not unlike the incensed man in the art gallery. Source Read More Evolution News
Brian Miller on Life, Thermodynamics, and Jeremy England
While England’s laboratory work is fascinating, what’s happening in his experiments differs dramatically from what is required of even the simplest life Source Read More Evolution News
Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos
They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Source…