Tag: Eric Cassell
Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design
What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors?
Animal Algorithms: Desert Ants and Honey Bees
Eric Cassell argues that these innate skills point to algorithms programmed into the ant’s brain and genome.
Animal Algorithms — Webinar on Thursday with Eric Cassell, Casey Luskin
Charles Darwin conceded that such instincts are “so wonderful” that their origin would strike many as “a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.”
How Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism
Eric Cassell discuss the No Free Lunch theorems of William Macready and David Wolpert, and the problem of blind searches for everything from Rubik’s cube solutions to the formula for WD-40.
Amazing Insect Colonies vs. Evolution
How could a mindless evolutionary process have evolved these sophisticated colonies?