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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 5, 2020
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General interest
Genomics
Intelligent Design
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Stuart Newman, one of the Third Way evolution scientists, on why COVID-19 is deadly to seniors

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April 5, 2020
General interest, Genomics, Intelligent Design
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Maybe viral “cold case” detective work will become a new specialty. Newman agree that seniors should be avoid public gatherings but doesn’t think mass quarantine of the entire population is the best strategy because it prevents the development of herd immunity. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 4, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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New origin of life book argues, even the simplest life forms are extraordinarily complex

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April 4, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Rob Stadler: By studying the simplest forms of life and laboratory efforts to synthesize life, we know that the simplest living organisms are extraordinarily complex. Al life contains highly interdependent subsystems and hierarchical layers of information that flows between the subsystems. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 4, 2020
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Books of interest
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Naturalism
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Terry Scambray: A review of Mike Flannery’s book, Nature’s Prophet, on Alfred Russel Wallace

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April 4, 2020
Books of interest, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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(Wallace, Darwin-s co-theorist, was a working-class stiff whom Darwin’s set elbowed out. He was not a materialist (naturalist) and he thought evolution could be consistent with meaning and spirituality. Darwin abhorred such ideas. This review was originally published at New Oxford Review.) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 3, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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Eric Holloway: A scientific test for true intelligence

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April 3, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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A scientific test should identify precisely what humans can do that computers cannot, avoiding subjective opinion: The “broken checkerboard” is not the ultimate scientific test for intelligence that we need. But it is a truly scientific test in the sense that it is capable of falsifying the theory that the mind is reducible to computation. Eric Holloway, “A scientific test for true intelligence” at Mind Matters News See also: Current artificial intelligence research is unscientific. The assumption that the human mind can be reduced to a computer program has never really been tested. Because AI research is based on a fundamental assumption that has not been scientifically tested—that the human mind can be reduced to a computer—then the research itself cannot be Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 3, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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Eric Holloway: What’s hard for computers is easy for humans

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April 3, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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We often hear that what’s hard for humans is easy for computers. But it turns out that many kinds of problems are exceedingly hard for computers to solve. This class of problems, known as NP-Complete (NPC), was independently discovered by Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 3, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
speciation
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Human evolution changes dramatically—again!

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April 3, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation
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The long article behind the paywall refers to the “increasingly outdated concept of what constitutes a species,” “just one of dozens of competing definitions.” Increasingly outdated and uncertain, yes. But remember, the Darwin revolution was about—wait for it!—On the Origin of SPECIES. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 1, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
Naturalism
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Eric Holloway: The Turing test is unscientific

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April 1, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Holloway: This test for intelligence, the Turing Test, was invented by and named after the mid-twentieth century computer pioneer Alan Turing. It is a subjective test in that it depends on whether an artificial intelligence is capable of convincing human testers that it is a human. But fooling humans, while impressive, is not really the same thing as actually possessing human-level intelligence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 31, 2020
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Convergent evolution
Intelligent Design
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Why frogs have such weird skulls

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March 31, 2020
Convergent evolution, Intelligent Design
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Food for thought: "Weirdly, it's easier for us to generate beautiful images of skulls than it is to know what these frogs eat," Blackburn said. "Natural history remains quite hard. Just because we know things exist doesn't mean we know anything about them." Read More ›