Boxgrove – Uncommon Descent

Human evolution Intelligent Design

Early hominins (480,000 years ago) were—wait for it!—more sophisticated than thought

Maybe Darwinians should canvass at LinkedIn for a new subhuman.

Mac McTavish I have always thought that classifying ideas as left, right, socialist, etc causes more problems than it solves. Why can’t... – Sep 21, 5:47 PM
AaronS1978 Hey did anyone see that article on science mag that ai is evolving itself Seems like a super big claim... – Sep 21, 3:53 PM
Truthfreedom 164 JVL ???? If I have 47 results regarding a phenomenon and 32 of them roughly agree then it’s not... – Sep 21, 3:37 PM
Querius What an excellent post, Harry! As Mao once said, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." And... – Sep 21, 2:58 PM
kairosfocus ET, Sev, capacity for evil is another way -- loaded of course -- of saying genuinely free. As in capable... – Sep 21, 2:56 PM
JVL ET: JVL is still clueless. “Mainstream science” doesn’t know how nature could have produced the genetic code. It doesn’t even... – Sep 21, 2:37 PM
JVL You have a fatal flaw in your position JVL. You use a glaring double standard in your reasoning, causing your... – Sep 21, 2:30 PM
JVL Truthfreedom: You can’t know that the reasoning above leads to truth because you don’t trust your brain. ???? If I... – Sep 21, 2:21 PM
Upright BiPed . Oh and Bob ... just one more thing. Anytime you want to explore additional details of the semiotic argument... – Sep 21, 1:15 PM
polistra No problem. Evolution and AI are fashionable, so they will continue to get all the money and power. – Sep 21, 11:48 AM
Truthfreedom 18 Bob O'H Tf– I certainly can’t know all of the contents. Then you can't judge them as "being preached... – Sep 21, 11:23 AM
Upright BiPed . Facepalm So Bob, when you conjured up distributive system theory to argue that that the gene system could be... – Sep 21, 10:31 AM
Truthfreedom There is not such a thing as scientifically provable "random evolution". There is: - "we scientists can not know all... – Sep 21, 10:07 AM
Truthfreedom AWhat? Machine learning systems are focused on specific processes from which they are unable to deviate. If the machines were... – Sep 21, 9:40 AM
Bob O'H Tf - I certainly can't know all of the contents. But if a paper is titled "A proof of e... – Sep 21, 9:34 AM
Truthfreedom 15 Bob O'H It’s certainly invalid to say something that doesn’t make any sense. What would you say of a... – Sep 21, 9:30 AM
Truthfreedom Bob O'H I have the expertise and knowledge to be able to evaluate the broad thrust of the special issue... – Sep 21, 9:27 AM
kairosfocus Re: Outsourcing We should outsource philosophy to AI. KF – Sep 21, 9:24 AM
Bob O'H UB @ 13 - it's certainly invalid to say something that doesn't make any sense. Even if I knew what... – Sep 21, 9:21 AM
Truthfreedom 12 Bob O'H I don’t need to. I visit this site regularly. But you criticize people for (supposedly) doing what... – Sep 21, 9:08 AM
Upright BiPed . Bob, is it somehow invalid and critical of evolution to say that it has symbolic physical requirements in order... – Sep 21, 9:04 AM