At Quanta: How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
“Why is there something rather than nothing?”
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At Reasons.org: Science, Faith, and the Problem of Pain
Even pain can be considered evidence of intelligent design.
At Science News: Why humans have more voice control than any other primates
“Human’s ability to talk may depend, in part, on our having lost a part of the larynx that dozens of other primate species have, new research suggests.”
At Evolution News: From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton
Stephen C. Meyer shares, from the Foreword to the new memoir by Charles Thaxton, A Leg to Stand On:
At Live Science: ‘STEVE’ descends on North America after surprise solar storm
“The glowing river of light [known as ‘STEVE’] may look like an aurora, but it’s actually a unique phenomenon that was considered “completely unknown” to science upon its discovery.”
At Phys.org: ‘Eternal engine’ inspires the next generation of ultraprecise atomic clocks
“UK scientists have created an “eternal engine” to keep the next generation of atomic clock ticking.”
At Science Daily: Super-Earth skimming habitable zone of red dwarf
“A super-Earth planet has been found near the habitable zone of a red dwarf star only 37 light-years from the Earth.”
At Reasons.org: Benefits of Viruses
“Why would an all-powerful, all-loving God create a world with viruses?”
At Mind Matters News: Epitaph for transhumanism: But it’s far from dead!, advocate says
The waning of interest in transhumanism may be related to a growing awareness of the fundamental limits of artificial intelligence.
At Phys.org: Ancient source of oxygen for life hidden deep in the Earth’s crust
Scientists at Newcastle University have uncovered a source of oxygen that may have influenced the evolution of life before the advent of photosynthesis. The pioneering research project, led by Newcastle University’s School of Natural and Environmental Sciences and published today in Nature Communications, uncovered a mechanism that can generate hydrogen peroxide from rocks during the movement of geological faults. While Read More…
Eric Holloway: How AI neural networks show that the mind is not the brain
Holloway: Neural networks get stymied by complex decisions due to the very processes that enable them to make any decisions at all. That’s a fundamental limitation.
At Mind Matters News: If DNA is a language, who is the speaker?
So, the pivotal question that the information content of DNA and other biomolecules raises is, can the relevant forces of nature, namely gravity and the electromagnetic forces, produce the complex, information-rich, functional biomolecules found within even unicellular organisms?
At Mind Matters News: Human brain shape hardly changed in 160,000 years
The human brain reaches 95% of adult size at six years of age. Interestingly seven years of age is commonly held to be the “age of reason.”
At Mind Matters News: Could we really increase human IQ via genetic engineering?
It’s not clear what, explicitly, human intelligence is or even how it originates. Ethics aside, there’s no way to decide who to save and who to throw away.
Eric Holloway: Can computer neural networks learn better than human neurons?
Takehome: Humans can do things that AI cannot do, as we saw earlier, but those abilities are not due to the superior learning ability of a human neuron.