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| RECENT ARTICLES - July 2018 |
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| SELF-EVIDENT |
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| We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident |
Evolution News |
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| PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY |
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| String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes Than Thought |
Scientific American |
| A skeptic’s take on the latest multiverse hype at New Scientist |
Uncommon Descent |
| The problem with "multiverse theories": they're just not science |
Prospect Magazine |
| What Is (And Isn't) Scientific About The Multiverse |
Forbes |
| Startling admission about the science (i.e., non-science) basis for the multiverse |
Uncommon Descent |
| How cosmic is the cosmos? |
Aeon |
| Oxford Study - Reanalyzing the Drake Equation |
NeuroLogica Blog |
| There Was No Big Bang Singularity |
Forbes |
| What is time? Physicist Carlo Rovelli ponders the enigmatic fourth dimension |
NBC News |
| Fooled By Time |
Physics World |
| 10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn't |
BackReaction |
| Researchers at CERN break “The Speed of Light” |
Physics and Astronomy Zone |
| Physics Needs Philosophy / Philosophy Needs Physics |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Cosmologist: Philosophy essential to the development of science |
Uncommon Descent |
| How might dark matter interact with ordinary matter? |
Science Daily |
| Researcher: The search for dark matter has become a “quagmire of confirmation bias” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Oddball Galaxy Puts Dark Matter Theory to the Test |
Scientific American |
| Is Time Running Out On Dark Matter? |
Forbes |
| Dark energy? No sign of symmetrons |
Science Daily |
| Is the Standard Model of physics a tyrant? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Gravitational waves and the slow pace of scientific revolutions |
ARS Technica |
| Gravitational waves: Scientific revolutions can take decades, science editor says |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Standard Model of Physics Is a Tyrant |
Scientific American Blogs |
| Higgs Boson and Top Quark coupled together: What does it mean? |
Creation.com |
| Octonions: Do eight-dimensional numbers underlie the universe? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Evidence for modified gravity is now evidence against it. |
BackReaction |
| 'Cataclysmic' collision shaped Uranus' evolution |
Science Daily |
| At Forbes: Maybe fine-tuning doesn’t matter as much as some claim. Many planets might support life... |
Uncommon Descent |
| If we are alone in the universe, shouldn’t that make us feel MORE special? |
Uncommon Descent |
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| EARTH SCIENCES/GEOLOGY/PALEONTOLOGY |
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| Trackways Reported in Ediacaran Strata |
Evolution News |
| Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic? |
Science Direct |
| Plate tectonics not needed to sustain life |
Science Daily |
| Easy-Bake fossils: Scientists find a way to simulate the fossilization process in about a day |
Sciance Daily |
| Synthetic Fossils Show Organic Films Can Preserve Quickly |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Upsets Surprise Evolutionists |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Newly Identified Banded Iron Formation Puts Origins Theories on Horns of a Dilemma |
Evolution News |
| Fossil of 'first giant' dinosaur discovered in Argentina |
BBC |
| Famed British Geologist Was Spectacularly Wrong About Stonehenge |
Live Science |
| Oxygen levels on early Earth rose, fell several times before great oxidation event |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Earth’s oxygen rose and fell several times before the Great Oxidation Event 2.2 bya |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Ice Age - More Problems with Iconic Milankovitch Paper |
ICR |
| Oldest Evidence of Terrestrial Life on a Young Earth |
The Scientist |
| Everything you thought you knew about dinosaur colours is wrong |
Wired |
| ‘Amazing Dragon’ Discovery in China Reshapes History of Dinosaurs’ Evolution |
NY Times |
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| BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY |
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| New book from Michael Behe on how today’s DNA findings “devolve” Darwin |
Uncommon Descent |
| Who Was Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Why Does He Matter? |
Evolution News |
| Inside the Machine Room of the Nucleus |
Evolution News |
| How did genetic parasites overcome natural selection for billions of years? |
Phys.org |
| Bacterial communities use sophisticated strategy to communicate over long distances |
Science Daily |
| The Dependency Graph of Life |
BioComplexity |
| Keynote Speech at Biology Conference Falsifies Major Claim of Darwinism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| BIO-Complexity Presents Better Model than Common Ancestry for Explaining Pattern of Nature |
Evolution News |
| Life should be classified not as a tree but as a dependency graph, says researcher |
Uncommon Descent |
| New Paper - The Dependency Graph of Life - Demonstrates Superiority of Design Model |
Darwin's God Blog |
| Todd Wood on Ewert's dependency graph paper |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| The Dependency Graph Hypothesis - How It Is Inferred |
Evolution News |
| Response to a Critic: But What About Undirected Graphs? |
Evolution News |
| Determining Irreducible Complexity Using Power-sets |
Uncommon Descent |
| Acacia Ants and Acacia Trees: An Irreducibly Complex Symbiotic Relationship? |
Uncommon Descent |
| A century-old model for life's origin gets significant substantiation |
Science Daily |
| Hidden rules of genetics for how life on Earth began: How genes were first translated into proteins |
Science Daily |
| The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: A Fable Told by Ernst Mayr |
Evolution News |
| Is Darwin Still Relevant? |
Evolution News |
| How do jumping genes cause disease, drive evolution? |
Science Daily |
| Imaging in living cells reveals how 'junk DNA' switches on a gene: Video shows DNA enhancers finding and activating a target gene in a living cell |
Science Daily |
| How “useless junk” DNA switches on a target gene |
Uncommon Descent |
| The minimal cell: How is research coming on a simple, self-replicating “artificial” cell? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bacteria make complex antibiotics that give chemists “cold sweats” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Chromatin Topology: the New (and Latest) Functional Complexity |
Uncommon Descent |
| New research solves a 160 year old mystery about the origin of the vertebrate skeleton |
University of Manchester |
| Continuing the baraminology panel discussion |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| Virus expert highlights the conflict over whether viruses are alive |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Origins of Hummingbirds Are Still a Major Mystery |
Audubon |
| Ecologists try to speed up evolution to save Australian marsupial from toxic toads |
Nature |
| Why should mitochondria define species? |
Program for the Human Environment - The Rockefeller University |
| The fundamental theorem of natural selection with mutations |
Journal of Mathematical Biology |
| How do cells interpret the “dizzying” communications pathways in multicellular life forms? |
Uncommon Descent |
| DNA Paramedics Repair Chromosomes |
ICR |
| Eye evolution came easy for simple sea creatures |
Nature |
| As Research Advances, Debunking "Junk DNA" Is Almost Trendy |
Evolution News |
| New findings on intercellular communication |
Science Daily |
| Darwin's House of Cards Gets Praise - And Underinformed Criticism |
Evolution News |
| "It Evolved" Is Not an Explanation |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Anti-design physicist makes the best case for design of life |
Uncommon Descent |
| Three Ways that Plants Defy Darwin's Mechanism |
Evolution News |
| Lateral gene transfer enables chemical protection of beetles against antagonistic fungi |
Science Daily |
| Meyer: An "Epistemic Obligation" to Embrace Evolution? |
Evolution News |
| When a bioengineer cannot avoid evidence for design in nature… |
Uncommon Descent |
| A Classic Evolutionist's Error, Berra's Blunder Revs Up Again |
Evolution News |
| Auto mechanic: Berra’s blunder splutters … yet again? |
Uncommon Descent |
| CRISPR gene editing produces unwanted DNA deletions |
Nature |
| Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated’ |
STAT News |
| Human Eye, that "Clunky Design," to be Used to Confirm, or Disconfirm, Quantum Mechanics |
Evolution News |
| Neurons Can Carry More Than One Signal at a Time |
Duke University |
| The ancient armor of fish -- scales -- provide clues to hair, feather development |
Science Daily |
| New review on methods of ancestral effective population size estimates |
Cornell University Library |
| Would Life On Earth Be Possible If We Were Anyplace Else In The Galaxy? |
Forbes |
| Other bad news from the genome for neo-Darwinism |
Uncommon Descent |
| From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition |
Evolution News |
| Dissolving the Fermi Paradox: Life is unique after all |
Creation.com |
| New control of cell division discovered |
University of Zurich |
| New insights into plants' conquest of land |
Science Daily |
| Why are neuron axons long and spindly? Study shows they're optimizing signaling efficiency |
Science Daily |
| Confined mature cells lose their specialized characteristics by sixth day and completely transition into re-deployable stem cells by 10th day |
Science Daily |
| DNA marks in adults tracked back to changes in earliest days of life |
Science Daily |
| Every person has a unique brain anatomy |
Science Daily |
| Different psychiatric disorders linked to the same genes? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Encryption System Found in Genes |
Evolution News |
| Genetics: Darwinism vs. biological form |
Uncommon Descent |
| Do all genes affect every complex trait? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Jumping genes: Cross species transfer of genes has driven evolution |
Science Daily |
| Genes - way weirder than you thought |
PLOS Blogs |
| At PLOS: “Genes – way weirder than you thought” |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Same Genes May Underlie Different Psychiatric Disorders |
Scientific American |
| Dads Pass On More Than Genetics in Their Sperm |
Smithsonian |
| Energy landscape algorithm details DNA's interphase dynamics |
Science Daily |
| Researchers: Cross species transfer has been "an important driver of evolution" |
Uncommon Descent |
| Almost one in five genes’ coding status is unresolved |
Uncommon Descent |
| The Frantic Determination of Some Scientists to Discover Life Elsewhere |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Discovery of a new on/off switch affecting cell-to-cell communications |
Science Daily |
| Cellular 'garbage disposal' has another job |
Science Daily |
| “Bad design” of the human mouth enables us to speak |
Uncommon Descent |
| Mighty mitochondria flex their DNA power to help nucleus run the cell: newly discovered intracellular genetic messaging |
Science Daily |
| Cellular butler protein organizes a cells genetic material from the sidelines |
Science Daily |
| Review of Henry Gee's Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates |
Nature |
| High-quality genomes reveal new differences between the great apes |
Nature |
| Neuroscientists uncover secret to intelligence in parrots: Study shows evidence of convergence in bird and primate evolution |
Science Daily |
| Evolutionary outcomes can be predicted |
Science Daily |
| Squid, Octopus Genomes Alter Themselves, Blocking Evolution |
ICR |
| Scientists Bring Ancient Proteins Back to Life |
The Scientist |
| Gene discovery unlocks mysteries to our immunity |
Science Daily |
| Heritable genome editing: Action needed to secure responsible way forward |
Science Daily |
| Are trees the ultimate in compressed information? |
Uncommon Descent |
| How to calculate mutation rate for evolutionary biology |
The Scientist |
| Host plants tell insects when to grow longer wings and migrate |
Science Daily |
| Bats harbor a gene swiped from an ancient Ebola-like virus |
Science Daily |
| Bats “steal” genes from ebola-related virus which serves an as-yet-unknown function in the bat |
Uncommon Descent |
| Peppered Hares - An Emerging Evolutionary Icon |
Evolution News |
| Horizontal gene transfer from tunicates helps beetles against fungus |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bale monkeys living in different areas have very different DNA |
Science Daily |
| Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers Questioned |
The Scientist |
| At Science: Maybe the transition from single cells to multicellular life wasn’t that hard? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is aging a “disease” or does it have an “evolutionary purpose”? |
Uncommon Descent |
| The complex and unfolding story of heredity shows genes' true place - Review of Zimmer's book |
New Scientist |
| Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years Come Back to Life |
Real Clear Science |
| Rise of the grasshoppers: New analysis redraws evolutionary tree for major insect family |
Science Daily |
| Is that Mars lake way too salty for life? |
Uncommon Descent |
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| ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCES |
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| Richard Weikart on the anti-Semitic burst in evolutionary psychology |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinian Theory and Evolutionary Psychology - A Troubling Legacy |
Evolution News |
| How Social Science Might Be Misunderstanding Conservatives |
NY Magazine |
| Neanderthals did know how to start fires |
Uncommon Descent |
| Rewriting human evolution story: No single human origin |
Uncommon Descent |
| Designed genetic diversity in Adam and Eve |
Int'l Conference on Creationism |
| The Scientific Possibility of Adam and Eve |
Strange Notions |
| Recent headlines in hominin origins |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| Sociologist Steve Fuller: How ID Foxes Can Beat the Darwinian Lions |
Evolution News |
| Gauger: Rebel Science Versus Theistic Evolution |
Evolution News |
| J. P. Moreland on why minds could not simply evolve somehow |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bill Dembski: Machines will never supersede humans! |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is social psychology still the science of behaviour? |
British Psychological Association |
| Study: Religiously affiliated people “9.45 and 5.64 years longer…” |
Uncommon Descent |
| Hominin occupation of the Chinese Loess Plateau since about 2.1 million years ago |
Nature |
| Humans did not stem from a single ancestral population in one region of Africa |
Science Daily |
| Neanderthals used flint and pyrite to spark fires |
Cosmos Magazine |
| The Case for Lucy as Ape: Part 5 of 6 |
Dr. Joe R. Miller - More Than Cake |
| More Evidence Lucy Was Just an Ape |
ICR |
| 350,000-Year-Old Skull Looks Shockingly Like Modern Human |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| The Biggest Misapprehension About Human Origins |
Nautilus |
| How Human Smarts Evolved |
Sapiens |
| Why Human Speech Is Special |
The Scientist |
| Did humans leave Africa earlier than previously thought? |
Science Daily |
| Koko Is Dead, but the Myth of Her Linguistic Skills Lives On |
Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Quantum Woo in Parapsychology |
NeuroLogica Blog |
| Oral Cavity's Supposedly "Lousy" Design Is a Key to Human Speech |
Evolution News |
| Asia's mysterious role in the early origins of humanity |
New Scientist |
| Professor Asserts Men And Women Are Different. University's School Of Science Disagrees |
Daily Wire |
| Foot fossil pegs hominid kids as upright walkers 3.3 million years ago |
Science News |
| Chimpanzees Can't Tell Us Much About Being Human |
Sapiens |
| How Ancient Teeth Reveal the Roots of Humankind |
Smithsonian Magazine |
| No single birthplace of mankind, say scientists |
The Guardian |
| Where Our Human Ancestors Made an Impression |
Hakai Magazine |
| Ancient Fire |
Human Genesis |
| The theory of mind myth |
Aeon |
| Biologist: Science and philosophy do NOT offer more for grief than religion |
Uncommon Descent |
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| PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY |
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| Christian worldview gave rise to science; naturalist assumptions not needed |
Uncommon Descent |
| 3 Reasons Why Science Has Not Done Away With Belief in God |
Christian Post |
| Scientific Predictions and the Bible: Unknown Facts Revealed by God |
Michael G. Strauss Blog |
| How To Overthrow A Scientific Theory In Three Easy Steps |
Forbes |
| Abusing Science: Leftists Push PC Agendas with Scientism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Hugh Ross’s five best arguments from nature for the existence of God. And some objections. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Science cannot “disprove” miracles |
Uncommon Descent |
| Danish ID proponent: Why I have a problem with Theistic evolution. |
Uncommon Descent |
| Do Religious People Really Have a Problem with Evolution? |
Nautilus |
| Atheists sense design in nature? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientific Predictions and the Bible: A Dual Fulfillment Proposal |
Michael G. Strauss Blog |
| Enemies of science? The current war on objectivity is a genuine enemy |
Uncommon Descent |
| The naturalism of the sciences: a domain naturalism? |
ScienceDirect |
| Chance, determinism and the classical theory of probability |
ScienceDirect |
| Mass slaughter: Can well-intentioned humanism replace values thought to be rooted in reality? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientific Predictions and the Bible: What to Expect |
Michael G. Strauss Blog |
| Would a Loving God Send People to Hell? |
Christian Post |
| A Brotherly Defense of the Resurrection of Jesus |
Christian Post |
| Neuroscientist Michael Egnor, the Philosophical Physician, on Science and the Soul |
Evolution News |
| Limits of Reductionism |
BackReaction |
| On the absurdity of “naturalism” (and the equal absurdity of its censorship of science and education) |
Uncommon Descent |
| What about the broader view of naturalism? (And how does this tie in with methods of science?) |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can science be the only source of truth? |
Uncommon Descent |
| What is the meaning of life? Ask a conservative |
Science Daily |
| Science and miracles: The Carl Sagan edition |
Uncommon Descent |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Rascism Can’t Be Ignored |
Religion Dispatches |
| Teilhard de Chardin: The “evolution” priest’s legacy included racism and social Darwinism, says theologian |
Uncommon Descent |
| From Cold Case Christianity: Is the Astronomy in the Book of Job Scientifically Consistent? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Sabine Hossenfelder: Free will is compatible with physics |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can we choose not to believe in free will? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Is Free Will an Illusion? |
Evolution News |
| Michael Egnor asks, can free will even BE an illusion? in a quantum universe? |
Mind Matters |
| Would a Loving God Send People to Hell? |
Christian Post |
| Must Science Conflict With Spirituality? |
NY Times |
| From Philip Cunningham: Atheistic Materialism vs Meaning, Value, and Purpose in Our Lives |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can there really be a Theory of Everything? Wouldn’t it really be a "theology" of everything? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That. |
Undark |
| Theistic evolution: Conjuring up one’s own version of evolution and calling it God’s |
Uncommon Descent |
| Neuroscientist: Free will is an illusion but we should believe we have it |
Uncommon Descent |
| Michael Shermer: We can never solve mysteries like consciousness, free will, or God |
Uncommon Descent |
| So, 25 years later, whatever became of the Hard Science of mind? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Does free will exist in the universe? (That would be a no.) |
Cosmos Magazine |
| Catholic apologist Ed Feser beats a dead horse |
Uncommon Descent |
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| AND MORE |
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| Will the REAL Dr. Leonard Susskind Please Stand Up? - Moshe Averick |
Times of Israel |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - New Biography Is a Defeater for Arguments for Theistic Evolution |
Evolution News |
| Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered |
Evolution News |
| David Bohm, Quantum Mechanics and Enlightenment |
Scientific American |
| 2018 ICC session papers available online |
Int'l Conference on Creationism |
| Creationists at the International Conference on Creationism admit feathered dinosaurs exist, so evolution is true! |
Todd C. Wood Blog |
| Is ID-friendly bioengineer a heretic or just a minority reporter? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Review of Heretic - A Finnish Bioengineer Touches the Third Rail |
Salvo Magazine |
| Astronomy and Astrobiology: Life Beyond our Home on Earth |
US Insurance Agents |
| SETI reacts to the new study that says not to wait up for extraterrestrials |
Uncommon Descent |
| But if we don’t find life on either Mars or Europa… |
Uncommon Descent |
| Must we find water to be sure there is alien life? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Atheists intuitively see nature in terms of design |
National Review |
| Book Review: Knowing Creation: Perspectives from Theology, Philosophy, and Science - Andrew B. Torrance and Thomas H. McCall, Editors |
Apologetics 315 |
| Geneticist praises the Creator |
Creation.com |
| When Is an Apologetic Dialogue No Longer Worth Pursuing? |
Christian Post |
| The Transhumanism Revolution: Oppression Disguised as Liberation |
Quillette |
| A Look at College Indoctrination into Darwinism |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| A Landmark Victory for Academic Freedom |
Weekly Standard |
| Here, Evidently, Is How They Teach Evolution at Louisiana State University |
Evolution News |
| When to trust (and not to trust) peer reviewed science |
The Conversation |
| What is the origin of human consciousness? |
Creation.com |
| Consciousness: Why Materialism Fails |
Open Sciences |
| There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Thought |
Nautilus |
| Egnor: Why Machines Will Never Think |
Evolution News |
| Descartes (1596—1650) could tell you why “smart machines” are stalled |
Uncommon Descent |
| interview of Nancy Pearcey |
Salvo Magazine |
| Random evolution somehow creates responsibility? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Galileo's Trial: A Conversation with Dom Paschal Scotti |
Law and Liberty |
| Review of Galileo Revisited |
Reading Religion |
| Does the social triumph of naturalist atheism always lead to magical beliefs? |
Uncommon Descent |
| Will President Dutarte have to resign? Mathematician Euler offered an equation taken as proof of God |
Uncommon Descent |
| Yes, President Duterte, God credibly exists |
Uncommon Descent |
| President Duterte, this is what it means that God is the necessary being at the root of reality |
Uncommon Descent |
| Big Science Tracks Political Correctness |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Philippines president claims he’ll resign if anyone can prove God exists |
Uncommon Descent |
| Darwinism Breeds Bigotry, Arrogance, and Hate |
Creation-Evolution Headlines |
| Journal of Creation - Table of Contents |
Creation.com |
| Babylon Bee's Neil DeGrasse Tyson Spoof Op-Ed |
Babylon Bee |
| Stability of Earth: Scientists propose solution to 'Gaia puzzle' |
Science Daily |
| Sam Harris on taboo topics, Jordan Peterson, and getting sent to PC hell |
Uncommon Descent |
| Bret Weinstein on Jordan Peterson v Sam Harris |
Uncommon Descent |
| Commonweal Misrepresents Isaac Newton, Intelligent Design |
Evolution News |
| Scientists Find Genetic Causes of Loneliness |
Discover Magazine |
| Science and Philosophy Offer More for Grief than Religion |
Psychology Today |
| Meditation under the microscope |
Aeon |
| How to build a real time machine |
BBC |
| At the BBC: Still working on that ol’ time machine… |
Uncommon Descent |
| What’s wrong with social psychology, in a nutshell |
Uncommon Descent |
| Can we cheat death by uploading ourselves as virtual AI entities? |
Mind Matters |
| Bill Dembski on how AI can solve our problems… |
Uncommon Descent |
| At Mind Matters Today: AI is not (yet) an intelligent cause |
Uncommon Descent |
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