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Günter Bechly: Species Pairs Wreck Darwinism: Evolution News; July 2, 2022

Conservation of Information — The Theorems: William A. Dembski; July 1, 2022

The Hidden Crisis in the Woods: Part 2: Jonathan Choe; June 28, 2022

Republicans Could Lead on Mental Health Treatment: Bruce Chapman; June 27, 2022

Securing America with Dr. Wesley Smith: Wesley J. Smith; June 22, 2022

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Free the White House Press Corps

_{Biden White House is hiding behind COVID}_{Debra J. Saunders
July 1, 2022}

I am one of 70 journalists who signed the letter. Here’s a phrase (in italics ) I never thought I’d write — the list includes 68 current White House correspondents, Sam Donaldson and me.

Video

The Hidden Crisis in the Woods: Part 2: Jonathan Choe; June 28, 2022

The Hidden Crisis in the Woods: Jonathan Choe; June 27, 2022

RV Recriminations in Seattle: Jonathan Choe; June 20, 2022

Artificial Intelligence, Cyberwarfare, and Military Preparedness: Robert J. Marks II; June 16, 2022

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Podcast

AI: The Potential and the Problems

_{Samuel Haug
June 30, 2022}

Despite the hype regarding the seemingly infinite possibilities surrounding AI technology, artificial intelligence still has a number of humbling hurtles to overcome. Justin Bui and Samuel Haug join Robert J. Marks to discuss the latest developments in artificial intelligence. Show Notes 00:00:56 | The Homunculus00:04:09 | Introducing Justin Bui00:06:54 | Fast AI00:13:45 | Deepfake Technology00:21:40 | Transfer Learning00:24:13 | Rapture of the Nerds00:31:27 | Little Faith in AGI00:33:32 | Introducing Samuel Haug 00:33:57 | The Rest of the Story00:35:36 | Could AI Win at Jeopardy?00:38:33 | IBM’s Deep Blue00:40:46 | Deep Convolutional Neural Network00:43:25 | Self-Driving Cars00:44:08 | Unexpected Contingencies00:49:19 | Exponential Explosion of Contingencies00:58:54 | …

Günter Bechly: Species Pairs Wreck Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
June 30, 2022}

On this ID the Future, distinguished German paleontologist Günter Bechly continues unpacking his new argument against modern evolutionary theory. According to Bechly, contemporary species pairs diverge hardly at all over millions of years, even when isolated from each other, and yet we’re supposed to believe that the evolutionary process built dramatically distinct body plans in similar time frames at various other times in the history of life. Why believe that? He suggests this pattern of relative stasis among species pairs strikes a significant and damaging blow to Darwinian theory. In this Part 2 episode, Bechly and host Casey Luskin discuss mice/rat pairs, cattle and bison, horses and donkeys, Asian and African elephants, the Asian black bear and the South American Spectacled bear, …

Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Evolutionary Theory

_{Günter Bechly
June 27, 2022}

On today’s ID the future, German paleoentomologist Günter Bechly and host Casey Luskin unpack a recent article of Bechly’s at Evolution News, “Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists.” There Bechly describes a challenge to evolutionary theory that thus far has been given little attention, namely “the morphological similarity of modern species pairs.” He says this “poses a severe problem for Darwinian theory “because it implies that the macroevolutionary processes that allegedly were at work and common during all periods of Earth history and in all groups of organisms, apparently were totally absent in the origins of all of the millions of living species.” Or as he puts it in a follow-up article on the same topic, “Among the 350,000 described fossil species, we …

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Rediscovering America

_{How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story About Who We Are}_{Jackson Meyer
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Mercer Island Community Center
Mercer Island, WA}

Ever wonder why everyone wants to immigrate to America? Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Scott Powell’s new book Rediscovering America: How the national holidays tell an amazing story about who we are answers that question. Please join us on Thursday, July 7 for a reception and lecture as Powell dives into a history that you have probably never read. More than an account of people, dates, and events, this book is about the hidden hand of a purposeful historical development where the main actors are colorful characters, participating in an American drama of little known but remarkable events where overcoming incredible odds of failure is more unbelievable and engaging than fiction. Rediscovering America is for people who seek truth and want to better understand the …

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18th Annual Insiders Briefing on Intelligent Design: Uniquely Human

_{Private event for members of the Discovery Society}_{The Center for Science and Culture
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Marriott Tacoma Downtown
Tacoma, WA}

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.Pope Benedict Discovery Society members should make plans now to attend the 18th Annual Insiders Briefing on Intelligent Design, to be held on August 12-13, 2022, in Tacoma, WA. At this year’s Insiders Briefing, you will get to explore how science is revealing the amazing design of human beings as never before. Topics will include how nature was prepared beforehand for the flourishing of humans, how the human body displays exquisite intelligent design, why the human mind can’t be duplicated by a computer, and much more. We’ll also examine what happens when some people wrongly promote dehumanization in …

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