hominins – Uncommon Descent

Human evolution Intelligent Design

Did hominins from 300 kya use fire to enhance tools?

Those hominins get smarter every time we run into them.

bornagain77 Eric Metaxas interviewed James Tour for part of his forthcoming book "Is Atheism Dead?" (Which is to be released Oct.... – Top world chemist, James Tour, to...
Silver Asiatic Q Yes, I agree with the first part, but I’m not sure whether theistic evolution means evolution set in motion... – At Mind Matters News: 3. Atheist...
Querius See also Asimov's three or four laws of robotics. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asimovs-laws-wont-stop-robots-from-harming-humans-so-weve-developed-a-better-solution/ Actually, AI is more likely (over time) to resemble "deep... – Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and...
EDTA I meant "unlikely" they are psychopaths.... – Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and...
Querius Silver Asiatic, What is kind of weird is that ID is compatible with that kind of deistic, pan-consciousness – some... – At Mind Matters News: 3. Atheist...
EDTA If they exhibit large amounts of humility over long periods of time (including when they think nobody else is watching),... – Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and...
polistra Excellent question from Seversky. Most psychopaths can be detected by the pattern of their actions, but their pattern is specifically... – Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and...
Silver Asiatic Querius Some of these atheists gravitate toward some type of “cosmic consciousness,” a sort of safely denatured god. True -... – At Mind Matters News: 3. Atheist...
Querius Silver Asiatic, The appearance, complexity, and functional design of the universe shouts to us of the existence of a Creator.... – At Mind Matters News: 3. Atheist...
Seversky Sounds like a good idea but if AIs were to start behaving like human psychopaths would they be any easier... – Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and...
Silver Asiatic ID proposes "Intelligence" as the source of some features in nature and for the universe itself. That intelligence could be... – At Mind Matters News: 3. Atheist...
Querius Silver Asiatic, Yes, exactly. And this hope of a future proof is like Darwinists hoping for some magical missing links... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Querius Kairosfocus @18, What we are seeing in this debate is rhetorical flailing in absence of a good atheistical argument [!!!]... – At Mind Matters News: 3. Atheist...
Querius Bornagain77 @2, For instance, this exchange where Wolpert, when cornered on the fact that the universe had a beginning, flippantly... – William Lane Craig vs. Lewis Wolpert:...
ram Seversky: It’s possible. Only if an infinite regress is possible. Hard to believe anyone believes that. – William Lane Craig vs. Lewis Wolpert:...
Silver Asiatic Querius It’s not about complexity, the unpredictability of outcomes is about the infinite number of digits required to compute any... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Silver Asiatic Bob O'H Err, yes, of course. So? Yes. Of course. As we agreed. We do not know much, if anything,... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
kairosfocus Jerry, William of Orange. My point is, there were multiple streams going in one direction and intersecting. KF – L&FP, 47: The credibility of the...
Seversky Maybe the Universe is a simulation and the Matrix computer is the "ground of being". It's possible. – William Lane Craig vs. Lewis Wolpert:...
bornagain77 This following 2017 study questioned the widely believed 'secularization thesis' of America, The Persistent and Exceptional Intensity of American Religion:... – At Mind Matters News: 3. Atheist...
Querius Bob O'H @94 And yes, I do know what a strange attractor is. I even know that it’s a deterministic... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...