Tag: creativity
Is Biology Approaching the Threshold of Design Acceptance?
A recent biology paper inches up to the edge of design advocacy, without using the phrase “intelligent design.”
Great Minds: Marks, Medved on Human Exceptionalism’s Two Frontiers
There are fundamental, unbridgeable chasms on either side, animal and machine. The capacity for creativity, for one thing, stands permanently outside the reach of algorithms.
Robert Marks: Randomness and the Enigma of Creativity
Only a freely acting, designing agent resolves the mystery. Only such an agent creates, truly, ex nihilo.
Great Minds: Robert Marks, Michael Medved on the Limits of Computation
There’s no danger of computers ruling us, but there is a peril in employing them to greatly magnify the impact of our own errors.
Critics Need to Grapple with Ewert’s Challenge to Darwin’s Tree
If the evidence is more suggestive of a creative enterprise like software engineering, that would have major implications.