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A Fistful of ACEs: Marvin Olasky; January 10, 2025; 5; Homelessness

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Feds Flub Homelessness by Ignoring Addiction

_{Caitlyn McKenney
January 9, 2025
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The federal government is hoping you, the public, won't notice that homelessness in America reached an all-time high last year. That was the impression given by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) when it quietly released the 2024 annual homelessness report on the Friday between Christmas, Hannukah, and New Year's. Nationwide, 771,480 people were experiencing homelessness in 2024, an 18 percent increase from the year before and the highest number on record.

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C.S. Lewis’s Challenge to Scientocracy in Cambridge and Beyond: John G. West; January 6, 2025; Intelligent Design

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Fossil Explosions in the History of Life: Paleontologist Günter Bechly: Günter Bechly; December 16, 2024; Intelligent Design

Return of the God Hypothesis in Cambridge with Stephen Meyer: Stephen C. Meyer; December 12, 2024; Intelligent Design

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The AI Bubble: Lessons from Past Financial Bubbles

_{Robert J. Marks II
January 9, 2025}

In this installment of the Mind Matters News podcast, host Robert J. Marks begins a conversation with economics professor and author Gary Smith about the hype of generative AI and its impact on the market. Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Ponoma College and a frequent contributor to Mind Matters News. Smith argues that generative AI, embodied in services like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, exhibits many characteristics of past market bubbles, including excessive hype, lack of profitability, and unrealistic expectations. Smith holds that generative AI models have limited practical economic value. They may be good at finding statistical patterns but struggle to distinguish meaningful, useful correlations from coincidental ones. Smith describes the fundamental …

Why The Multiverse Fails: More With Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer

_{Brian Miller
January 8, 2025}

If a grand multiverse contains everything that’s possible, it ends up explaining nothing. On this ID The Future, physicist Brian Miller concludes his conversation with mathematician Elie Feder and physicist Aaron Zimmer, hosts of the Physics to God podcast, about their unique formulation of the fine-tuning argument and their rigorous examination of the multiverse hypothesis. In Part 2, Feder and Zimmer explain in detail three premises they use to critically evaluate the strength of multiverse theories. They contend that if a multiverse model posits infinite universes, each with their own different laws of nature, it’s a naive multiverse that hasn’t solved the fine-tuning problem. To properly evaluate multiverse proposals, a third premise is needed: one that can explain …

Rejecting the Multiverse: Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer

_{Brian Miller
January 6, 2025}

It can be tempting to dismiss the idea of the multiverse as unobservable fantasy. But what happens when the available evidence for it is given a fair shake? On this ID The Future, physicist Brian Miller begins a conversation with mathematician Elie Feder and physicist Aaron Zimmer, hosts of the Physics to God podcast, about their unique formulation of the fine-tuning argument and their rigorous examination of the multiverse hypothesis. In Part 1, Feder and Zimmer explain how their podcast got started and what they’ve covered so far. In their first season, they break down the fine-tuning and initial conditions of the universe and show how the evidence points to an intelligent cause. In Season 2, out this year, they present a careful consideration of the evidence for the multiverse. …

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