2019 May | Uncommon Descent

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 18, 2019

Categorized
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

Tagged
, Sabine Hossenfelder, Tommaso Dorigo}

When particle physicists collide, some are transformed into children

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 18, 2019

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics}

My, my. A commenter formed the correct impression and suggests, “Could you please answer the very valid questions raised by Sabine [Hossenfelder] instead of smearing her like this?” Read More ›

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Date
May 18, 2019

Categorized
Intelligent Design}

Vids: String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity

_{kairosfocus

May 18, 2019

Intelligent Design}

Strings: Loop-Q-G: Food for thought. END

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post

Date
May 18, 2019

Categorized
Intelligent Design}

Vids: Explaining the recent black hole image

_{kairosfocus

May 18, 2019

Intelligent Design}

A TED Talk Second vid on observing a black hole: Apart from a notice, there will be no comments. END

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 18, 2019

Categorized
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design

Tagged
, National Review, racism, Razib Khan}

Darwinian conservative has a troubling history re racist links

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 18, 2019

Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design}

Every so often, for whatever reason, a US conservative thinkmag steps on Darwin’s rake. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 18, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind

Tagged
, Intelligence}

Why it’s hard to come up with a test for AI intelligence

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 18, 2019

Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind}

Holloway: Intelligence, like randomness, is mathematically undefinable. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 17, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design

Tagged
, Brendan Dixon, Marcus du Sautoy}

Dawkins’s successor at Oxford claims true AI creativity is coming

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 17, 2019

Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design}

He recognizes that present AI displays the creativity of its creators and not that of a machine-based intelligence but why let that get in the way of a promising theory?. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 17, 2019

Categorized
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

Tagged
, axion}

Theoretical physicist reassures public, they’re not just making it up

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 17, 2019

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics}

Just because it’s not clear that the hypothetical particle she studies exists. Okay. But perhaps some physicists will still choose to research particles for whose existence there is actually evidence. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 17, 2019

Categorized
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design

Tagged
, David Gelernter, Jerry Coyne}

Darwinian Jerry Coyne vents his spleen at Darwin-doubting Yale computer scientist

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 17, 2019

Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design}

Gelernter is HOW likely to read Coyne’s diatribe and conclude he must be all wrong? But then Darwinians tend not to notice what others do. Presumably, it’s an adaptation. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 17, 2019

Categorized
Genetics, Intelligent Design}

So it’s come to this: Turmoil over what genes really do

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 17, 2019

Genetics, Intelligent Design}

Well, if genetics isn’t that important, what is heredity? Maybe epigenetics and horizontal gene transfer also shape the lives we live and live among. So then Darwinism is right but unimportant. It explains some things, not most things. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 16, 2019

Categorized
Evolution, stasis}

Talk about stasis! Bedbugs are 100 million years old

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 16, 2019

Evolution, stasis}

Well, they will just have to keep looking for that early, really simple bedbug, below which there is nothing but sub-bedbugs. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 16, 2019

Categorized
Intelligent Design, speciation

Tagged
, dogs, wolves}

Researchers: Purebred dogs are not “biological species”

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 16, 2019

Intelligent Design, speciation}

Their assertion shows, of course, what as mess the biological species concept is. If anyone does think all those breeds of dogs are really species, well… Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 16, 2019

Categorized
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation

Tagged
, Neanderthals, teeth}

Researchers: Tooth studies show that Neanderthals “split” from modern humans 800 kya, not 300-500 kya

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 16, 2019

Human evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation}

If Neanderthals “diverged” from “modern humans” 800,000 years ago but many of us have Neanderthal genes (yeah, 23andMe stuff, for sure), what chance is there that much of the contention is based on the fact that we don’t really know enough to be sure of very many things? Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 16, 2019

Categorized
Intelligent Design, stasis

Tagged
, ammonites, sea slater}

Amber—a moment in time 100 mya

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 16, 2019

Intelligent Design, stasis}

Life forms trapped in amber—hardened resin from conifers—can show remarkable examples of stasis: No real change from one ten-million-year span to the next one. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 15, 2019

Categorized
Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design

Tagged
, Yuval Noah Harari}

Historian: Evolution means that human equality is a myth

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 15, 2019

Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design}

The “evolutionary” view (Darwinism, in fact) is often portrayed as a sort of liberation but people may be rather surprised to discover exactly what that liberation is. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
May 15, 2019

Categorized
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism

Tagged
, Ernst Haeckel, sponges}

Ernst Haeckel studied sponges to demonstrate “a universe devoid of supernatural beings or purpose”

_{Denyse O'Leary

May 15, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism}

Just to set the record straight, embryologist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) had, according to learned expert, a “philosophy of sponges.” And the title above captures part of it. Read More ›