Year: 2017
Blade Runner 2049 Poses Questions about AI Machines and Moral Value
Rather than get all caught up in esoteric musing, I suggest an entry level test for determining whether an entity has any moral value.
Trouble in Paradise? At BioLogos, Theistic Evolutionists Fall Out Among Themselves
For years they have been gravely advising their fellow Christians that science rules out belief in a historical first pair of human beings.
Hype and Fearmongering About Artificial Intelligence Passes Its Sell-By Date
The attribution of superpowers to coming generations of AI machines has entered self-parody territory.
Warm Little Pond? PNAS Paper Admits Difficulties Generating RNA on Prebiotic Earth
“Warm little ponds,” in Darwin’s quaint expression, are actually very hostile environments for generating nucleotides.
Does Science Rule Out a First Human Pair? Geneticist Richard Buggs Says No
One of the claims Dennis Venema makes in his book is that the effective population size of our last common ancestor with chimps has never been fewer than 10,000.