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Tuesday 28 February 2023
JEHOVAH'S masterclass on supply chain operation.
James Gates on our becoming a spacefaring civilisation.
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Monday 27 February 2023
The militant vegans are coming.
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David Berlinski has got agreeing to disagree down to a science?
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The fall of college?
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The gene dethroned?
New Study: Transgenerational Epigenetics Can Have a Profound Impact
Prophet of the master race and his apostles.
Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin’s Contribution to Scientific Racism
More on why no rise of the machines.
Are you tired of hearing about ChatGPT yet — “basically high-tech plagiarism,” as Noam Chomsky has said? Dr. Robert J. Marks, director of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center, appeared on a segment of The Agenda recently to examine the hype surrounding artificial intelligence and ChatGPT. He was joined by Melanie Mitchell of the Sante Fe Institute and MIT’s Max Tegmark. Hosted by Steve Paikin, the three discussed the benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence and what it means to be human in a technological age, as well as the perennial question of consciousness. You can watch the entire conversation on YouTube:
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Dr. Marks had the opportunity to talk about some of the key themes he discusses in his book Non-computable you: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will, contending that AI, while it has benefits, does not, and never will, have the creativity, empathy, and personal consciousness unique to human beings.
Saturday 25 February 2023
On distinguishing between natural and artificial selection.
Robot Evolution? How the Trick Is Done
The Fossil record's trolling of Darwinism continues .
Fossil Friday: A Strange Dragonfly Larva
The politics of making the master race.
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Friday 24 February 2023
The future of clean energy?
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A window on the history of Uruguay.
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Finally the truth?
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The thumb print of JEHOVAH within
Scientists Discover a “New” Fourth (Meningeal) Membrane Surrounding the Brain
Between the arachnoid and pia maters is the subarachnoid space, which is filled with a clear, colorless liquid called the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Except for having a lot less protein, the chemical content of CSF is similar to plasma and is constantly being produced and recycled so there are about four to five ounces present in the brain. Propelled mostly by the pulsation of the heart, CSF circulates through the ventricular system within the brain and over its surface.
When the slippery slope is behind you?
Canadian Lawmakers Support Euthanasia for Minors without Parental Consent
A window on Mesoamerican history.
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A window on African history.
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Thursday 23 February 2023
A case study in Darwinism's contribution to the rise of the master race.
John West Introduces Darwin Comes to Africa
On a new episode of ID the Future, political scientist John West introduces Darwin Comes to Africa, the new book by Nigerian pastor, theologian, journalist, scholar, and human rights activist Olufemi Oluniyi. The work explores the poisonous influence of Social Darwinism on British rule in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an influence felt in Oluniyi’s home country down to the present, he argues. The book project grew out of Oluniyi’s intimate knowledge of Nigerian culture as well as his attendance at the 2017 Center for Science & Culture Summer Seminar program in Seattle. By the end of that nine-day gathering, he had resolved to write a book about the impact of Social Darwinism on his home country and announced that intention to his fellow attendees. He died of Covid-19 four years later, but not before completing in-depth research on the subject of the book and sending Discovery Institute Press his manuscript. Learn more about what Oluniyi discovered. Download the podcast or listen to it here
Superheroes by design?
Meet the Ghostly Organisms that Rescue the Planet
All primates are not created equal?
Chimp and Human Genomes: An Evolution Myth Unravels
Wednesday 22 February 2023
Catching the wind?
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More of James Tour deconstructing the would be deconstructors of teleology re: OoL
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James Tour holds court(again) re: OoL science's failure to falsify teleology.
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The dismal science on income inequality.
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Tuesday 21 February 2023
On the story of project HARP.
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On Darwin and the rise of the uberman.
The Cruel Legacy of Social Darwinism in Nigeria
Social Darwinism is a rickety notion, rich in assumptions but destitute of facts. It reminds me of a Mandinka proverb widely recognized in Africa which says, “An empty bag cannot stand.” It is, however, resourceful. Social Darwinism rests like a tiger moth on Darwinism, its mother theory; when challenged with facts, it flits to a slightly different position and poses anew, where its camouflaging coloration allows it to survive a bit longer.
However, Social Darwinism is not merely as tricky and insubstantial as a tiger moth. It also is as dangerous as a tiger. As shall be shown in these pages, a large portion of Northern Nigeria’s suffering can be laid directly at the feet of this tiger and its parent. This book is an invitation to readers, and to African scholars particularly, to look around them and determine to what extent Social Darwinism has mauled their respective societies and nations.
What Precisely Is This Dangerous Creature?
More on learning to ask the right questions.
Controversy over the p-value
Monday 20 February 2023
Survival of the fittest taken to its logical conclusion?
When Darwin Came to Africa
Charles Darwin did not actually visit Africa. But his poisonous ideas certainly did, spread by aggressive Social Darwinists who left a bitter legacy that impacts Africans even today.
My dear friend Olufemi Oluniyi spent the last years of his life documenting what happened so the world could finally know the truth.
Olufemi was a Nigerian pastor, theologian, journalist, scholar, and human rights activist. I met him in 2017 when he participated in the Center for Science & Culture’s Summer Seminar program here in Seattle.
A Resolution to Write
As Nigerian scholar Mary-Noelle Ethel Ezeh explains,
Ideas rule the world, and corrosive ideologies damage human relations and destroy societies. In this book, Olufemi Oluniyi lucidly exposes how the pseudo-science of Social Darwinism fueled manipulative and exploitative British imperialist policies in Northern Nigeria to damage human relations and destroy societies… The author… vividly shows how British Social Darwinist policies were a root cause of the damaged relations among the peoples of Nigeria. This root cause continues to exert its influence in Nigeria’s effort to build a sustainable democracy in the 21st century.
Dr. Ezeh is Professor of Ethics and Christian History at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University in Nigeria.
Historian Richard Weikart adds that Darwin Comes to Africa provides “a powerful reminder that Social Darwinism and the scientific racism flowing from it had profoundly damaging influences on real people, especially those — such as black Africans — denigrated by scientific elites as ‘inferior’ on the evolutionary ladder.” Weikart is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Stanislaus, and author most recently of Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism.
More Than an Indictment
Olufemi’s book isn’t just an indictment of Social Darwinism. It also tells the story of how Christian missionaries in Africa pushed back against Social Darwinism. And it presents evidence showing how all humans reflect the intelligent design of their creator.
“The author powerfully challenges evolutionary arguments for racism,” notes African scholar Dr. Richard Ochieng’. “He also refutes Western myths about the history of Africa as the ‘dark continent,’ recounting Africa’s many contributions to ancient manufacturing, medicine, architecture, mathematics, and more. Overall, the book presents an inspiring vision of the transcendent value of all people as equal members of the same human race.” Dr. Ochieng’ is a Lecturer at the University of Eldoret in Kenya and Chair of the BioCosmos Kenya Trust Foundation.
If you want to learn more about Darwinism’s real-world consequences in history, you couldn’t do better than add Darwin comes to Africa to your reading list.
More on Darwinism's simple beginning problem
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File under "well said" XCI
"It is better to have the wrong answer to the right question than the right answer to the wrong question"
Anonymous graffiti writer.