Vid: Fisher’s Darwinian theorem disproved in conference paper
| July 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
William Basener writes to say, I posted a conference presentation I gave on my work with John Sanford on the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection with Mutations, posted on YouTube here. The talk was the keynote address at the International Conference on Ecology, Ecosystems, and Conservation Biology, in Toronto Canada (a fairly small but fully […]
Teilhard de Chardin: The “evolution” priest’s legacy included racism and social Darwinism, says theologian
| July 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From John P. Slattery at Religion Dispatches: In fact, a movement has been underway to resurrect, as it were, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as a renewed foundation for theological reflection. According to a November report in America magazine, Pope Francis is already considering removing the “warning” attached to Teilhard’s historical writings, and more recently the […]
Gravitational waves: Scientific revolutions can take decades, science editor says
| July 18, 2018 | Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Physics |
From John Timmer at Ars Technica: LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves came almost exactly a century after Einstein had formulated his general theory of relativity and an ensuing paper mathematically describing the possibility of gravitational waves. Or at least that’s the story as it was presented to the public (including by yours truly). And in […]
SETI reacts to the new study that says not to wait up for extraterrestrials
| July 18, 2018 | Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design |
From SETI’s Seth Shostak, who surely doesn’t welcome this news, at NBC: A recent paper by three researchers at the University of Oxford is throwing shade on those who feel confident that the cosmos is thick with extraterrestrials. … If we own up to the true extent of these uncertainties and do the requisite math, […]
Neurosurgeon outlines why machines can’t think
| July 17, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism |
From Michael Egnor at Mind Matters Today: The hallmark of human thought is meaning, and the hallmark of computation is indifference to meaning. That is, in fact, what makes thought so remarkable and also what makes computation so useful. You can think about anything, and you can use the same computer to express your entire […]
Bill Dembski: Descartes (1596—1650) could tell you why “smart machines” are stalled
| July 17, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism |
From design theorist William Dembski at Mind Matters Today: The computational literature on No Free Lunch theorems and Conservation of Information (see the work of David Wolpert and Bill Macready on the former as well as that of Robert J. Marks and myself on the latter) imply that all problem-solving algorithms, including such a master […]
The minimal cell: How is research coming on a simple, self-replicating “artificial” cell?
| July 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life |
Such acell might shed some light on the origin of life, researchers hope. From Suzan Mazur at Oscillations: Not to be outdone by Dutch, German and other Europeans now officially dabbling in synthetic cell research, America’s National Science Foundation has thrown its hat into the ring on funding synthetic cell development, per its April 18, […]
Can science be the only source of truth?
| July 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Science |
From Ruth M. Bancewicz at Science + Belief, on key points offered by Dutch philosopher Professor René van Woudenberg at a recent Faraday workshop, including: There are all sorts of ways in which scientists find some theories more satisfying than others, but science itself is not always a deciding factor in the decision. Logic, reason, […]
Science and miracles: The Carl Sagan edition
| July 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theism |
From Carl Sagan: Consider this claim: as I walk along, time – as measured by my wristwatch or my ageing process – slows down. Also, I shrink in the direction of motion. Also, I get more massive. Who has ever witnessed such a thing? It’s easy to dismiss it out of hand. Here’s another: matter […]
WJM Throws Down the Gauntlet
| July 16, 2018 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
All that follows is WJM’s: Modern physics has long ago disproved the idea that “matter” exists at all. Timothy’s position might as well be that because we all perceive the sun moving through the sky from east to west, it is a fact that it is the sun that is doing the moving. Just because […]
Auto mechanic: Berra’s blunder splutters … yet again?
| July 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Design inference, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Some things can’t change. From a piece at ENST, A Classic Evolutionist’s Error, Berra’s Blunder Revs Up Again Tim Berra had tried to compare biological evolution to the evolution of the Corvette. In his book Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, Johnson aptly pointed out the intuitively obvious difference: Of course, every one of those Corvettes […]
A-Mat Grunts; Thinks He Argued
| July 16, 2018 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In response to my last post A-Mat timothya writes: “If You are Going to Reject Something, At Least Take the Time to Understand What You Are Rejecting” Absolutely agree. Evolutionary biology would be a good place to start. Timothy, it is easy to be a smartass. Making cogent arguments, not so much. You appear to […]
If You are Going to Reject Something, At Least Take the Time to Understand What You Are Rejecting
| July 15, 2018 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
The post by News here about how an atheist believed that miracles are impossible because “science,” reminded me of the atheist who responded to one of my posts a few weeks ago. He said he cannot believe in an immaterial mind because in his view the interaction problem is hopeless for dualists. The problem of course […]
Enemies of science? The current war on objectivity is a genuine enemy
| July 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Philosophy, Science, science education |
And Big Science is afraid to confront it. From Katherine Timpf at National Review: A course that will be taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges next year will teach students that “objectivity” and “meritocracy” are examples of “white mythologies” and “social constructs.” … The idea that objectivity is somehow a myth, or that it […]
Science cannot “disprove” miracles
| July 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Philosophy, Religion, Science |
From Amy K. Hall at Stand to Reason: Recently, when I asked an atheist why he was an atheist, the first reason he gave was that “science has disproved God.” When I asked what he meant by that, he started listing miracles in the Bible—such as the virgin birth—that were impossible for him to believe […]
Christian worldview gave rise to science; naturalist assumptions not needed
| July 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science |
From Amy K.Hall at Stand to Reason: Are naturalistic assumptions necessary for doing science? In the video below (or see the transcript here), Stephen Meyer argues that not only is naturalism not necessary, but in fact, it was a Christian worldview that gave rise to modern science. More. From Transcript: The first thing to say […]
From Cold Case Christianity: Is the Astronomy in the Book of Job Scientifically Consistent?
| July 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Religion |
From J. Warner Wallace at Cold Case Christianity: Yesterday I posted a number of scientific consistencies found in the Old Testament. While I think there are good reasons why God might not reveal advanced scientific details in Scripture, I do expect God’s Word to be scientifically consistent with the world we experience. One interesting scientific […]
Bill Dembski: Machines will never supersede humans!
| July 14, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design |
On July 11, the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence officially launched and design theorist William Dembski offered some thoughts: The Walter Bradley Center, to the degree that it succeeds, will not merely demonstrate a qualitative difference between human and machine intelligence; more so, it will chart how humans can thrive in a […]
When a bioengineer cannot avoid evidence for design in nature…
| July 14, 2018 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
From Denyse O’Leary at Salvo: Minority Reporter: A Finnish Bioengineer Touches the Third Rail Randomness and chaos are much easier to market today than order, meaning, and purpose. The songs write themselves. Serious scientists, therefore, can find themselves in conflict with a view that is not so much an argument as an attitude to life, […]
Will President Dutarte have to resign? Mathematician Euler offered an equation taken as proof of God
| July 14, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mathematics, theism |
Recently, Philippines president Rodrigo Dutarte threatened to resign if anyone could prove that God exists. It turns out that the great mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) offered a proof of the existence of God. Today, Euler is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. His interests covered almost all aspects of mathematics, from geometry […]
