Month: June 2014
"A Computer Just Passed the Turing Test in Landmark Trial" — Or Did It? The Hype on That One Lasted About a Day
What Discovery Institute’s Wesley Smith calls "human exceptionalism" remains the best science that we have.
Cosmos Finale Takes One Last Shot at the “Delusion that We Have Some Privileged Position in the Universe”
It was a fitting end, in keeping with what we’ve seen already in the series.
Darwin’s Finches Show Rule-Constrained Variation in Beak Shape
When does a beak remain a beak? When developmental rules keep it from becoming something else.
Video: Stephen Meyer on Responding to Critics of Darwin’s Doubt
The duration of the Cambrian explosion, Charles Marshall’s review in Science, the challenge from cladistics — Dr. Meyer considers all the most frequently promoted challenges.
Counting to God: New Book by Douglas Ell Introduces the Evidence for Intelligent Design
A lot of books — many of them very good — have been written about the debate over intelligent design.