Tag: machines
In Search of Self-Replicating Clocks
That Darwinism seems even superficially plausible depends completely on the ability of living things to reproduce themselves without significant degradation.
Richards: False Prophecies of a Robotic Future Are Based on a False Darwinian Premise
The rejoinder to this way of thinking, which Jay Richards expresses with wonderful concision, is that humans possess a unique capacity forever setting us apart from machines.
A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 3
Perhaps the evidence for the vast scope of Darwin’s theory really isn’t as strong as biologists over the years have been telling each other.
A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 1
Their review pretty much completely misses the mark. Nonetheless, it is a good illustration of how sincere-yet-perplexed professional evolutionary biologists view the data.
Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery
French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”