Intelligence Trap (book) – Uncommon Descent

Human evolution Intelligent Design Mind

Even if humans were “evolving smarter,” would it make any difference?

Surprising as it may seem, there is no clear evidence that key thinking skills improve with measured intelligence.

chuckdarwin #7:Silver Asiatic SA, thank you for your comments, you are always gracious. – At Mind Matters News: Debate: Former...
Seversky The central problem with such claims is that the environment is not conscious, as depicted, e.g., in the Disney movie... – Darwinism’s legacy of confusion in biology
bornagain77 CD, I disagree that logical argumentation is useless. And if you really believed that logical argumentation was useless, then why... – At Mind Matters News: Debate: Former...
bornagain77 Seversky, and has it occurred to that there so many arguments for the existence of God because God is the... – At Mind Matters News: Debate: Former...
Querius Silver Asiatic @7, Christianity, for example, is not an intellectual formula where you just plug into the logic and then... – At Mind Matters News: Debate: Former...
Bob O'H Querius - if you're going to talk about me behind my back, it really helps to do so somewhere where... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Bob O'H SA @ 44 - The three body problem is understood because gravity is a constant. It can be analyzed mathematically... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Silver Asiatic Querius Notice that Bob O’H still hasn’t been able to support is assertion that natural selection is “non-random,” or even... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Silver Asiatic Bob There’s little to no evidence that evolution proceeds by several coordinated mutations appearing at the same time, to go... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Querius Silver Asiatic @39, If selection was as predictable and regular as gravity then that analogy would work. But the randomization... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Silver Asiatic Bob For a theoretical example, look at the three body problem. And then extrapolate that to the real world… The... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
jerry There’s little to no evidence that evolution proceeds by several coordinated mutations appearing at the same time, to go from... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Bob O'H SA - If selection was as predictable and regular as gravity then that analogy would work. But the randomization of... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
jerry They’re saying “everything in nature is produced by nature – but nature is not mindless, it’s guided by God to... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Bob O'H Ok, but I think the point still stands: Behe proposed that two-coordinated mutations are a limit – a boundary beyond... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Seversky Bornagain77/2 Dr. Egnor listed 10 proofs for God’s existence starting around the 8 minute mark... Has it occurred to you... – At Mind Matters News: Debate: Former...
Silver Asiatic That's is great to hear, CD. I fully agree with you on that. It's tremendous wisdom - and Aquinas was... – At Mind Matters News: Debate: Former...
Silver Asiatic Bob So selection is just as random as gravity. The movement of grains of dust are randomized and unpredictable, so... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
chuckdarwin SA Even an unwashed deist such as myself can appreciate that Summa Theologica is the single greatest theological work ever... – At Mind Matters News: Debate: Former...
Silver Asiatic First of all, theistic evolutionists are believers in ID if what you say is true. But I don’t believe that... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...
Bob O'H SA @ 30 - I can accept that “selection” as a mechanism, would be non-random. I’m just questioning if we... – At Quanta: Mathematical Analysis of Fruit...