Granville Sewell

Granville Sewell is professor of mathematics at the University of Texas El Paso. He has written four books on numerical analysis, most recently Solving Partial Differential Equation Applications with PDE2D, John Wiley, 2018. In addition to his years at UTEP, has been employed by Universidad Simon Bolivar (Caracas), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Purdue University, IMSL Inc., The University of Texas Center for High Performance Computing and Texas A&M University, and spent a semester (1999) at Universidad Nacional de Tucuman on a Fulbright scholarship, and another semester (2019) at the UNAM Centro de Geociencas in Queretaro, Mexico.

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More on Self-Replicating Machines

_{Granville Sewell
June 27, 2022}

We know how to build a simple Ford Model T car. Now let’s build a factory inside this car, so that it can produce Model T cars automatically.

Three Realities Chance Can’t Explain That Intelligent Design Can

_{Granville Sewell
June 6, 2022}

The argument for ID could not be clearer: Unintelligent forces cannot rearrange atoms into computers and airplanes and nuclear power plants and smartphones.

Intelligent Design, Now in Polish

_{Granville Sewell
March 8, 2022}

My book includes a chapter on quantum mechanics, called “The Supernatural Element in Nature.”

The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law

_{Granville Sewell
January 4, 2022}

Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden.

Oh-So-Close to Self-Replication

_{Granville Sewell
October 11, 2021}

All that is left is to add a factory to the Cornell device so it can produce for itself the molecubes that humans keep building and feeding them.

The First “Simple” Self-Replicator?

_{Granville Sewell
September 13, 2021}

Let's imagine trying to design something as "simple" as a self-replicating cardboard box.

“Do You Believe in Evolution?” A Short Answer

_{Granville Sewell
September 3, 2021}

You don't have time to give a 30-minute answer outlining the different meanings of the word "evolution" and the evidence pro and con for each.

Intelligent Design, Ahead of Its Time: More on W. E. Lönnig’s 1971 Thesis

_{Granville Sewell
June 28, 2021}

In his youth, Dr. Lönnig bravely opposed dogma that was almost universally accepted and perilous to question.

Intelligent Design and Fine-Tuning for Scientific Discovery

_{Granville Sewell
June 16, 2021}

The reason this evidence of “fine-tuning for discovery” is so satisfying to me is not just because it defeats the anthropic principle.

“A Summary of the Evidence for Intelligent Design”: The Study Guide

_{Granville Sewell
May 24, 2021}

"Imagine engineers were able to design cars with car building factories inside, with the ability to build new cars with car building factories inside them."