Month: July 2014
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
On Independence Day, it’s appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens.
On Independence Day, Recalling the Intelligent-Design Views of the Man Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Jefferson argued for his belief in a pervasive “design” behind nature, “without appeal to revelation” — that is, from a scientific not a religious perspective.
Michael Flannery, Writing from Edinburgh, Offers a Nice Puzzle
“As you look at the cliff ask yourself, is the difference between the products of chance and necessity so easily distinguished from those that have been intelligently designed?”
Great Apes Cannot Be Slaves
The words we use matter.
The Turing Test Is Dead. Long Live the Lovelace Test.
Recently, a computer program pretending to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman was hailed as the first to pass the Turing test.