In fact, the machine needs no genuine intelligence because it is automating the work of a human being who has both intelligence and purpose.
Month: June 2012
You can do that Darwinian magic too! Fun with Darwin words
It’s Sat Nite, so UD News suggests some fun. We will do some word replacements …
Dennett on Competence without Comprehension
[In response to Daniel Dennett’s appeal to computer scientist Alan Turing as reductionist materialism’s greatest champion next to Darwin:] … at first blush one would think that because Turing had “invented” a “machine,” this might give even Dennett pause and lead him to take a second look at his claim that competence precedes comprehension. For […]
A brief introduction to Steve Fuller, agnostic sociologist of the ID community
(And one of the very few who grasp the key issues.)
Why horizontal gene transfer is bad news for Darwinism
It disrupts a key thought pattern: How does Darwin explain this? The correct answer is, he doesn’t.
Double-RNA structure directs bacterial protein scissors, used on foreign DNA
“Also, there is evidence to suggest that CRISPR loci are horizontally transferred in nature.”
For record: A comment on the issues raised by Dr Fuller (HT: Gregory and Nullasalus), and onward concerns in the wider context of debates over design theory
I have just now commented in the recent thread on Dr Fuller’s thought, and think it useful to headline for record (especially given some continued abusive misbehaviour at Anti- Evo and linked sites that has come to my attention in recent days): ____________ >> Let me clip a few thought-sparker cites from Dr Steve Fuller: […]
Steve Fuller in ID & Philosophy News
UD regular Gregory asked me to pass this on. A collection of quotations on ‘intelligent design’ by American-British philosopher and sociologist of science and invited Dover Trial witness Steve Fuller from the past 7 years has not long ago been published here: http://social-epistemology.com/2012/05/06/gregory-sandstrom-in-steve-fullers-words-intelligent-design/ If Uncommon Descent blog would wish to discuss these things I (Gregory) […]
Fri nite frite: You think you know hot from not? Consider the Big Bang soup
RHIC’s physicists were seeking to duplicate the conditions that existed just an instant after the big bang that kicked off the universe’s expansion 13.7 billion years ago. (when gluons come unglued).
Tree of life a mess for plants too?
Here’s Nova’s accidental take on the problem (April 17, 2007)
Evolution Professor: Special-Creation “Effectively Eliminated”
In his book Inside the Human Genome evolution professor and National Academy of Science member John Avise continues with the usual evolutionary religious claims that the evil and inefficiency of biological designs—at the molecular level in this case—necessitate evolution, for such designs would never have been designed or created by a loving higher intelligence. As usual, it’s […]
Human evolution: Current pottery theory in smithereens. Pottery much older than (dated) agriculture
… pieces of a large bowl found in Jiangxi Province are 20,000 years old. Pottery had been theorized to get started only 10,000 years ago, when agriculture prevailed. The theory was, …
Free e-book on Genes, Chromosomes, and Disease
” Social Implications of Genetics lectures that Gillham gave for many years at Duke University.”
Fossil tracks from animal 585 mya, 30 million years earlier than thought
” … the tracks were made by a primitive animal called a bilaterian … “
Muscle cell myosin developed in unicellular organisms long before animals
Life forms do not randomly evolve solutions through natural selection; they are inwardly driven to converge on possible solutions in a wilderness of non-solutions.