Think of replicational resources as arrows in your quiver and specificational resources as targets so that hitting any of them counts as a success. Source Read More Science and Culture…
Category: Science
Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection
True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information. Source Read More Science and Culture…
From Australia’s Fossil Record, an Evolutionary Puzzle
In the present article, the most important result is this: All extant Australian marsupial families are also known from the fossil record. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information
The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection
Critics of intelligent design or science-based theistic arguments often cite Isaac Newton as the prime example of a scientist who made this blunder. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
With AI, Anthropomorphism Is High Stakes; But It May Be as Old as the Human Race
Such relationships can lead to delusional spirals, including marrying a bot. One man proposed to his bot when he feared it would run out of memory. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Get a Grip: “Claude” Isn’t a Person
“The [AI] model spoke about destroying itself, provoking an emotional reaction of compassion and concern from the group.” Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Dr. Egnor: The “Platonic Turn” in Science
There is a “disconnect” between a physical organ of the body — the brain — and the “immortal mind,” the human spirit, that transcends it. Source Read More Science and…
Stephen Meyer versus Richard Dawkins: A Contest Made in Heaven?
Much of the response by Dawkins is defensive in tone, and shifts the discussion to one of ethics and philosophy with only a vague gesture towards science. Source Read More…
“Displacement,” or Offloading, and the Mysterious Million Dollars
imagine trying to explain how Alice came into possession of $1,000,000. It would be one thing to say that, based on skills and effort, she earned $1,000,000. Source Read More…