Tag: Winston Ewert
Return of the Christmas Pony – Robert Marks on Modeling Darwinian Evolution
Maybe evolution is just too complicated to model? Or maybe computer simulations have already provided a sufficient demonstration that evolution works as advertised?
Math, Computers, and Evolution: Robert Marks on Searches and Artificial Intelligence
Marks’s new book, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, makes an important but esoteric-sounding field accessible to the general reader.
Evolution Out of the Curriculum? If So, a Bad Idea from Turkey
The fact that evolution is both important and “controversial” is one reason we strongly favor teaching it thoroughly in high school biology classes.
Evolutionary Biologist Backs Off from Computer Simulations
PZ Myers is an atheist activist and evolutionary biologist whose blog is more about promoting his left-wing politics than it is about evolution.
Robert Marks on Computer Evolutionary Simulations, Science and Faith, the Limits of Artificial Intelligence, and More
You’ll enjoy his recent podcast conversation with UK interviewer Julian Charles of The Mind Renewed.
Top Ten Questions and Objections to Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics
An evolutionary program whose goal is to master chess will never evolve further and offer investment advice.
Falsify Intelligent Design? Try Simulating the Cambrian Explosion Digitally
Researchers have tried, in multiple cases, as computer scientist Winston Ewert explains.
Intelligent Design Goes International — A Report from Istanbul
The beginning of May was quite interesting as audiences of scientists, scholars, and students in very different parts of the world examined the evidence for ID.
Why Evolution Simulations Fail: Author of Evolutionary Informatics Book Explains
Winston Ewert argues that Richard Dawkins’s “Methinks It Is Like a Weasel” simulation doesn’t prove biological evolution and isn’t even very interesting.
Evolutionary Informatics: Marks, Dembski, and Ewert Demonstrate the Limits of Darwinism
As the authors rigorously show, producing anything of significant complexity requires that knowledge of the outcomes be programmed into the search routines.