Category: Video
Vid: J. P. Moreland’s 2012 Doubts about Darwinism lecture
| August 1, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Video |
Hat tip: Ken Francis See also: J. P. Moreland on why minds could not simply evolve somehow
Cosmologist Sean Carroll introduces user-friendly videos explaining naturalism
| May 13, 2018 | Posted by News under Education, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Video |
From multiverse cosmologist Sean Carroll we learn that eighty videos are about to hit YouTube: Some of you might be familiar with the Moving Naturalism Forward workshop I organized way back in 2012. For two and a half days, an interdisciplinary group of naturalists (in the sense of “not believing in the supernatural”) sat around […]
Ramesh Raskar on slow motion light — at a trillion [10^12] frames per second
| November 20, 2017 | Posted by kairosfocus under info in nature & the future of Sci-Tech, Science, Stirring the pot (tentative thoughts/explorations), UD's Sci-Tech watch, Video |
This needs to go in the Sci-tech watch department for UD: Not directly relevant to ID debates, but a glimpse at the wonders of our world that are well worth pondering. END
Computer scientist Don Johnson’s Programming of Life videos
| July 14, 2017 | Posted by News under Informatics, Information, Intelligent Design, Video |
Don Johnson is the author of Programming of Life and Programming of Life 2: the Earth These vids introduce the ideas. See also: Don Johnson’s lecture on “Bioinformatics: The Information in Life”
Design Disquisitions: Updated YouTube Playlists
| May 11, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Courts, Darwinism, Evolution, Food for thought, General interest, Media, Naturalism, Science, Video |
For the last year or so I have been accumulating quite a number of YouTube playlists. Recently I’ve been trying to get it a little more organised and cleaned up, so I thought I would point readers to it as a resource. At the moment I have just under 40 individual playlists. I have created […]
A Tutorial on Specified Complexity
| December 2, 2016 | Posted by johnnyb under Complex Specified Information, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Video |
I’ve found that a lot of people who are interested in Intelligent Design are nonetheless unaware of the mathematics behind it. Therefore, I decided to do some videos teaching the basic ideas.
John Searle Talks to Google
| November 12, 2016 | Posted by johnnyb under Animal minds, Artificial Intelligence, brains and computation vs contemplation, Comp. Sci. / Eng., Mind, Minds, Naturalism, Neuroscience, Video |
John Searle gives a nice talk at Google about real intelligence vs. machine intelligence. The conversation is interesting for a number of reasons, including some historical background of Searle’s famous “Chinese Room Argument.”
US Pres. George W Bush’s 9/11-01 interview (as food for thought)
| September 13, 2016 | Posted by kairosfocus under General interest, Geo-strategic issues, Lessons of History, Politics/policy and origins issues, Video |
Video: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt (Please understand this i/l/o the context of complacency, attack and the lesson of Jan Sobieski. Ask yourself, in your heart is our civilisation worth fighting for given the likely alternatives (or, does it deserve to die . . . or be utterly “transformed”), and why or why not?) Ponder, […]
VIDEO: Doug Axe presents the thesis of his new (and fast-selling) book, Undeniable
| August 2, 2016 | Posted by kairosfocus under Books of interest, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, Intelligent Design, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Mind, Video |
Video: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Blurb at the Amazon page for the book: >>Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence. Now, he presents his conclusions in this brave and pioneering book. Axe argues that the key to understanding […]
Methodological Naturalism and Epistemic Pluralism
| July 15, 2016 | Posted by johnnyb under Naturalism, Philosophy, Science, Video |
In this next video from the Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism (AM-Nat) conference, Rope Kojonen defends methodological naturalism by suggesting that the foundation for its objections is the belief that science is the only valid way of knowing.
Francis Bacon, Analogy, and Teleology
| July 13, 2016 | Posted by johnnyb under Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science, Science, Mathematics, Philosophy and (Natural) Theology, Video |
In the next installment of videos from the AM-Nat conference, Jim LeMaster discusses Francis Bacon and David Hume, and shows their issues with teleological thinking in science, and why the arguments against analogies don’t measure up. We have a conference coming up in November focused on biology, and another in February focused on business and […]
Philosophical Foundations of Methodological Naturalism
| July 8, 2016 | Posted by johnnyb under Naturalism, Philosophy, Science, Video |
In the next video from the Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism conference, Jonathan Bartlett describes the philosophical underpinnings of methodological naturalism and why they fall short. For more information about the Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism (AM-Nat) conference series, see the website. We have two more conferences coming in the next year!
Can Design Itself Serve as a Science Demarcation?
| July 5, 2016 | Posted by johnnyb under Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science, Video |
In this presentation from the AM-Nat conference, Mario Lopez points out the possibility that design itself may be able to serve as a neutral descriptor of what counts as science, where here “design” serves as a general description, not necessarily Intelligent Design.
Regularism as a Metaphysically-Neutral Philosophy of Science
| July 4, 2016 | Posted by johnnyb under Naturalism, Philosophy, Physics, Science, Video |
In this presentation, Tom Gilson describes regularism, intended to be a metaphysically neutral philosophy of science to replace methodological naturalism. Regularism is intended to focus on the things that the scientific methodology needs to operate properly rather than assumptions about what it will discover. Find out more information about the Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism conference.
Gambler’s Epistemology
| June 29, 2016 | Posted by johnnyb under Biophysics, Engineering, Genomics, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Video |
In this next installment from the Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism (AM-Nat) conference, Salvador Cordova gives us his perspective on epistemology, which he calls “Gambler’s Epistemology,” which intends to be a metaphysically neutral way of analyzing claims based on their costs and payoff possibilities. Cordova shows that naturalism does not have a history of high payoffs, […]
Imagination Sampling – Using Non-Naturalism to Improve Machine Learning
| June 26, 2016 | Posted by johnnyb under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Informatics, Intelligent Design, Video |
This video is from the Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism 2016 conference held earlier this year. It deals with using non-naturalism in order to improve the quality of machine learning programs using a technique called “imagination sampling.” The results of a limited test run are given.
Full Vid: DI/Denton, privileged species
| June 11, 2016 | Posted by kairosfocus under Back to Basics of ID, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Privileged planet, The Design of Life, Video |
Here: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Let us watch and ponder, then discuss. END Posts
DEVELOPING EVENT: Bombings in Brussels, after capture of terrorist mastermind
| March 22, 2016 | Posted by kairosfocus under Geo-strategic issues, News, Of General Interest, Off Topic, Video |
The developing pattern of terrorist attacks in the West continues. Looks like a bombing at an airport and a metro station in Brussels after a terrorist mastermind was captured Friday last. It seems so far, 26 dead, dozens wounded. The airport bombing may be a suicide bombing. Sky News, live: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt […]
From the recent Hunter-Ruse debate…
| March 18, 2016 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News, Video |
Biophysicist Cornelius Hunter debates “Is Evolution Compelling.” Cornelius Hunter versus Michael Ruse, March 11, 2016. Note: Hunter often writes here at Uncommon Descent. We are trying to get vid of Ruse too. See also: Steve Meyer vs. Lawrence Krauss in Toronto this Saturday, live-streamed Follow UD News at Twitter!
