^TagIntelligent design theory

Science and research of the universe, spiral galaxy and physical formulas, concept of knowledge and education

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Author
News
Date
August 22, 2023

Categorized
Mathematics

Tagged
faith and religion, god, Intelligent design theory, Mathematics, Numbers, Physics, religion, science, science and faith}

From Physics to Faith?

_{A podcast episode looking at how physics points to more than meets the eye} _{News

August 22, 2023

2

Mathematics}

Do you recognize the number 1/137.035999206? It might seem arbitrary, but if the fine-structure constant were any higher or lower than it is, you might not exist! On this episode of ID the Future, host Brian Miller kicks off an engaging conversation with Rabbi Elie Feder and Rabbi Aaron Zimmer, hosts of the Physics to God podcast. Feder has a PhD in mathematics and has published articles on graph theory. Zimmer has training in physics, and has studied mathematics, philosophy, and psychology. Both men also have extensive rabbinical training. Through their podcast, Feder and Zimmer invite both secular and religious listeners on a journey through modern physics as they offer rational arguments for an intelligent cause of the universe. In Part 1 of Read More ›

3d render, abstract geometric background, colorful constructor, logic game, cubic mosaic structure, isometric wallpaper, blue green cubes

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
May 17, 2023

Categorized
Information Theory

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Information Theory, Intelligent design theory, Minecraft, Video games}

Minecraft: A World of Information

_{The world's bestselling video game captures the insight that information is created and consumed by human minds} _{Eric Holloway

May 17, 2023

4

Information Theory}

What if I told you intelligent design theory is responsible for the most successful computer game of all time? This game is Minecraft. It has sold over 238 million copies, the highest selling game of all time. What makes the game even more extraordinary is it was created entirely by one man, Markus Persson, over a weekend, who then later sold the game to Microsoft for $2.5 billion dollars. Hard to make this sort of thing up. How does Minecraft work? You can think of Minecraft like a computer game form of Legos, the popular building block toy, with added monsters. You are dropped into an algorithmically generated world where you have to discover resources, find food, and build structures to survive the Read More ›

3D rendering of abstract blocks of mathematical formulas located in the virtual space

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post

Author
Peter Biles
Date
May 13, 2023

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Mathematics

Tagged
AI, C.S. Lewis, Euclid, Hemingway, Intelligent design theory, J.R.R. Tolkien, Literature, Mathematics, New York Times, novels}

Math, Mind, and Matter

_{The surprising similarities between mathematics and literature} _{Peter Biles

May 13, 2023

4

Arts & Culture, Mathematics}

Last October, legendary American author Cormac McCarthy, who wrote Blood Meridian and The Road, released a pair of interconnected novels called The Passenger and Stella Maris. The books arrived after a sixteen-year silence from the desk of McCarthy. The books deal, per usual, with themes of mortality, fate, and the “God question,” and are predictably lyrical, vivid, and dark. But McCarthy plows new ground in these sibling novels. The books are about mathematicians. It’s fiction about math. The story revolves around the complex relationship between a brother and sister: Bobby and Alicia Western. Bobby is a deep-sea diver with some history in the field of mathematics, while Alicia is a once-in-a-generation math prodigy. Not Estranged, but Akin After reading these books myself, I marveled at McCarthy’s ability to Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
November 17, 2021

Categorized
Mathematics, Programming, Science

Tagged
Featured, Intelligent design theory, Jeffrey Shallit (on information theory), Michael Egnor, Phillip E. Johnson, Random number generator (RNG), Randomness (and design), Randomness (and information), Randy Isaac (on information theory), Robert J. Marks}

How Even Random Numbers Show Evidence of Design

_{Random number generators are actually pseudo-random number generators because they depend on designed algorithms} _{News

November 17, 2021

12

Mathematics, Programming, Science}

In Define information before you talk about it, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviewed engineering prof Robert J. Marks on the way information, not matter, shapes our world (October 28, 2021). In the first portion, Egnor and Marks discussed questions like: Why do two identical snowflakes seem more meaningful than one snowflake. Then they turned to the relationship between information and creativity. Is creativity a function of more information? Or is there more to it? And human intervention make any difference? Many questions arose during the discussion. Does Mount Rushmore have no more information than Mount Fuji? Does human intervention make a measurable difference? That’s specified complexity. Putting the idea of specified complexity to work, how do we measure meaningful information? How Read More ›

Beautiful night sky, the Milky Way, moon and the trees. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

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podcast

Author
Michael Egnor
Date
August 26, 2021

Tagged
Arthur Schopenhauer, Bernardo Kastrup, Computers, Consciousness, Cosmopanpsychism, Death, dissociative identity disorder, epiphenomenal, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent design theory, Jerry Fodor, Materialism, metaphysics, Michael Egnor, mind, mutation, Near-death experiences, Panpsychism, Panpsychism (vs. materialism), Philosophy, Physics, Quantum Computing, Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Physics, Sabine Hossenfelder, sense, Sense of smell, Sense of touch, soul, subjective idealism, Teleology, Thomas Aquinas}

“If Nobody Looks at the Moon, Does It Exist?” and Other Metaphysical Questions

_{Michael Egnor

August 26, 2021

2}

If no one is looking at the moon, does it exist? Why has materialism been around for so long? Will computers ever be conscious? What happens to our consciousness after we die? Bernardo Kastrup tackles these questions and more with Michael Egnor in another bingecast! Show Notes Additional Resources

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post

Author
Eric Holloway
Date
April 26, 2021

Categorized
Philosophy, Science

Tagged
Benford's Law, Carl Sagan, Chance, Conspiracy theories, design in nature, design inference, Detachability (and design inference), Explanatory Filter, Intelligent design theory, Necessity, Probability, Voter fraud allegations (in U.S.), William Dembski}

How the Explanatory Filter Can Help Quash Conspiracy Theories

_{I found Dembski’s explanatory filter quite helpful in investigating voter fraud claims} _{Eric Holloway

April 26, 2021

10

Philosophy, Science}

William Dembski’s explanatory filter is a decision strategy for identifying events that are unlikely to have happened purely by chance. The filter proceeds in three main steps, which can be illustrated via the plot device in Contact, a novel (1985) by Carl Sagan, followed by a film (1997): Eliminate events of large probability (necessity): A radio telescope receives a pattern of beeps and pauses. Perhaps the pattern seems strange to us but we could just be overinterpreting inevitable space noise. Eliminate events of medium probability (chance): The pattern turns out to be a sequence of prime numbers. However, large randomly generated numbers sometimes feature apparent patterns (five 5s in a row, for example) that don’t signify anything. Specify the event Read More ›

The concept of building a business network Businessmen experience a global network and global online trading development system exchange.

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post

Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
March 12, 2021

Categorized
Censorship, Media

Tagged
bias, censorship, encyclopedia, Encyclosphere, Günter Bechly, Intelligent design theory, Larry Sanger, Neutrality claims, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia}

Wikipedia’s Bias Meets a Free-Speech Alternative

_{The famously free encyclopedia’s pages on abortion, communism, and historical figures reveal a left-leaning bias} _{Caitlin Cory

March 12, 2021

6

Censorship, Media}

Last December, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger announced that he would be launching a free speech alternative to Wikipedia, a website that Sanger believes has lost its credibility as a neutral source of information. Sanger’s Encyclosphere is meant to be “an open encyclopedia network” (Sanger compares it to “the blogosphere”) with the goal of “build(ing) a network that … all of humanity owns and no one exclusively controls.” One of Wikipedia’s declared “fundamental principle(s)” is NPOV – neutral point of view. Wikipedia defines NPOV as “representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic.” “This policy is non-negotiable,” the website states. But according to Sanger, “Wikipedia’s ‘NPOV’ is dead.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Eric Holloway
Date
February 4, 2021

Categorized
Information Theory

Tagged
Design Inference (book), Explanatory Filter, Featured, Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), GMO detection, Intelligent design theory, William Dembski}

Is GMO Detection an Application of Dembski’s Explanatory Filter?

_{If so, it would be an instance of the use of the filter in biology} _{Eric Holloway

February 4, 2021

7

Information Theory}

Have you ever heard people say that intelligent design (ID) theory has never been applied to biology? They are wrong! In fact, it is applied frequently in the very important field of detecting genetically modified organisms (GMOs). “A genetically modified organism contains DNA that has been altered using genetic engineering.” (National Geographic) Detection can trace the use of GMOs, now frequent in our food supply, so that products can be recalled if there is a problem or if people just don’t want to use GMO products. GMOs are intelligently designed biological organisms, and scientists use design theorist William Dembski’s explanatory filter to detect GMOs. My claim is a bit daring, perhaps alarming for some people. Maybe I’m stretching the definition Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Michael Egnor
Date
September 3, 2020

Tagged
Bernardo Kastrup, causal efficacy, Consciousness, cosmopsychism, epiphenomenal, Evolution, immateriality, Intelligent Design, Intelligent design theory, Jerry Fodor, Materialism, metaphysics, mind, mutation, Panpsychism, Teleology}

The Evolution (or Not) of Consciousness

_{Michael Egnor

September 3, 2020

1}

Did consciousness evolve? How do materialists deal with the definition of consciousness? Dr. Michael Egnor and Dr. Bernardo Kastrup discuss consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Show Notes Additional Resources

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post

Author
News
Date
August 13, 2020

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind, Science

Tagged
___longform, Bernardo Kastrup, Consciousness, Darwinism, Evolution, Featured, god, Intelligent design theory, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, Materialism, Michael Egnor, Natural selection, Panpsychism, Philosophy, What Darwin Got Wrong (book)}

Why Consciousness Couldn’t Just Evolve from the Mud

_{Kastrup, a panpsychist, is sympathetic to the basic intuitions behind the idea that there is design in nature (intelligent design theory)} _{News

August 13, 2020

10

Philosophy of Mind, Science}

In a recent podcast, “Does the Moon Exist if No One is Looking at It?”, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviewed philosopher and computer programmer Bernardo Kastrup. Dr. Kastrup has been, in Dr. Egnor’s words, “leading a modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism”—that is, reality is essentially mental rather than physical. Read More ›

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podcast

Author
George Montañez and Robert J. Marks
Date
June 25, 2020

Tagged
bias, Campbell’s Law, chatbots, Computer Simulation, design inference, Directed Panspermia, Elon Musk, Extraterrestrials, Goodhart’s Law, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Intelligent design theory, Panspermia, SETI, simulation, the imitation game, Turing Test}

Bingecast: George Montañez on Intelligence and the Turing Test

_{George Montañez and Robert J. Marks

June 25, 2020

2}

What do computer scientists say about the ability of machines to think? Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, tackled the question in 1950 and proposed the Turing test as an answer. Is the Turing test important today? Can a deeper undertanding of intelligence be culled for the Turing test? Robert J. Marks discusses the Turing test, artificial intelligence, Read More ›

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post

Author
News
Date
October 11, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Computer Simulation, Elon Musk, Intelligent design theory, SETI, Turing Test}

What Do the Turing Test and ID Have in Common?

_{George D. Montañez shows that if a test can detect intelligence in computers, a test could also detect intelligent design in nature} _{News

October 11, 2019

7

Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

The Turing test for design in computers relies on the same principles as the detection of design in nature. The materialist can have, in principle, no intelligence in either computers or nature or possible intelligence in both. But he can’t pick and choose.

The Turing Test, Artificial Intelligence, and Intelligent Design

_{Robert J. Marks and George Montañez

October 10, 2019

1}

Artificial intelligence and intelligent design both refer to the idea of “intelligence.” Is there a deeper understanding of intelligence that can be culled from the Turing test? Robert J. Marks discusses the Turing test, artificial intelligence, and intelligent design with Dr. George Montañez. Show Notes 00:33 | Introducing Dr. George Montañez, Iris and Howard Critchell Assistant Professor of Computer Science Read More ›

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post

Author
Eric Holloway
Date
July 5, 2019

Categorized
Machine Learning

Tagged
Business Intelligence, Data analysis, Data Deadlock, False positives, Intelligent design theory}

How Business Intelligence Can Break the Data Deadlock

_{Companies today are awash in information. But which patterns are real? Which are cloud bunnies?} _{Eric Holloway

July 5, 2019

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Machine Learning}

Contrary to the dogma of hypothesis testing, it is possible to do after-the-fact pattern analysis while limiting the probability of false positives.