Design Disquisitions: Jeffrey Koperski on Two Bad and Two Good Ways to Attack...
Part two of my series looking at Jeffrey Koperski’s paper ‘Two Bad Ways to Attack Intelligent Design and Two Good Ones’ is now up on my blog. This one is quite in depth, but a couple of interesting...
View ArticleEvolution posits origins in Europe? Scant evidence for mutations
Several skeletons up end the sparse evidence for the human evolutionary tree. “The history of human evolution has been rewritten after scientists discovered that Europe was the birthplace of mankind,...
View ArticleConfusing Probability: The “Every-Sequence-Is-Equally-Improbable” Argument
Note to Readers: The past few days on this thread there has been tremendous activity and much discussion about the concept of probability. I had intended to post this OP months ago, but found it still...
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Answering DiEb: Just what is “search” in a sense relevant to ID?
For some time now, objector DiEb has been raising the question, what do we mean by speaking of “search” in the context of evolutionary search. At 311 in the parody thread, she [IIRC] remarks:...
View ArticleDoes eternally inflating cosmology cause probabilities to fail?
From John D. Norton: (2018) Eternal Inflation: When Probabilities Fail. [Preprint] In eternally inflating cosmology, infinitely many pocket universes are seeded. Attempts to show that universes like...
View ArticleWhat is Randomness? Part 1, with David Nguyen
Contextual Bias David Nguyen is with Think Tank Learning. See also: Asking, what is more prone to error: Science or scientists? Copyright © 2018 Uncommon Descent. This Feed is for personal...
View ArticleSilenced! Selectivity too close to truth?
Should science pursue truth regardless of consequences? Or must we succumb to political correctness? Must selectivity of females always equal males? Consider: Academic Activists Send a Published Paper...
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AI and pop music: Can simple probabilities outperform deep learning?
Haebichan Jung tells us that he built an original pop music-making machine “that could rival deep learning but with simpler solutions.” Deep learning “is a subfield of machine learning concerned with...
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Extraterrestrial civilizations: When all else fails, try Bayesianism
Schematic view of the Milky Way showing six isotropic extraterrestrial emission processes/Claudio Grimaldi, EPFL From ScienceDaily: Could there be another planet out there with a society at the same...
View ArticleProbability of a single protein forming by chance
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