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Andrew McDiarmid
June 8, 2021
Intelligent Design

The Coolest Tech on the Planet (Hint: It’s Inside You!)

Andrew McDiarmid
June 8, 2021
Intelligent Design
These days, we surround ourselves with technology to stay in touch, to keep ourselves informed, and to manage the challenges of our daily lives. We also recognize in our devices and machines all the hallmarks of design, understanding reflexively that they express the ingenuity of engineers or software developers. Our appreciation for applied intelligence comes as second nature to us—we intuitively recognize the work of other minds. Read More ›
Jay W. Richards
February 19, 2011
Intelligent Design, Technology

I, for One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

Jay W. Richards
February 19, 2011
Intelligent Design, Technology

Should we fear the rise of ‘intelligent’ computers? In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of “Jeopardy!,” the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the two previous human champions, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. At the end of the first round, aired on Valentine’s Day, Jennings Read More ›

Tom Bethell
April 17, 2001
Intelligent Design

A Map to Nowhere

Tom Bethell
April 17, 2001
Intelligent Design

The principal actors had appeared in the White House last June — Francis Collins of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and J. Craig Venter of Celera Genomics. Now they were back with a supporting cast and a more detailed analysis, in the Capital Hilton Hotel, with the TV lights glinting off the ballroom chandeliers, 250 journalists packed into the hot Read More ›