Tag: chemotaxis

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 22, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
adaptation, Animal Algorithms, animal behavior, bird navigation, Casey Luskin, chemotaxis, common ancestry, complex programmed behaviors, convergence, Convergent evolution, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, Eric Cassell, eusociality, Evolution, genetic engineering, geomagnetic reversal, gradualistic adaptation, ID 3.0, innate behavior, insect social behavior, instinct, Intelligent Design, intelligent design research, Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Natural Selection, neural networks, pheromone trails, pheromones, purpose, social colonies, social insect genomes, social insects, solitary behavior, spherical navigation, spiders, teleology, teleophobia}

Animal Algorithms Webinar Pt. 2: Author Q&A

_{Eric Cassell

December 22, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future is Part 2 of a recent live webinar with Eric Cassell fielding questions about his new book, Animal Algorithms: Evolution and the Mysterious Origin of Ingenious Instincts. He and host Casey Luskin explore the engineering wonders of web-spinning spiders and their extraordinary silk, and the challenge of transforming solitary insects into social insects (with their complex and interdependent caste systems) via a blind step-by-step evolutionary process, and the many thousands of genetic changes required. What does Cassell consider the best explanation? He invokes design theorist William Dembski’s work with No Free Lunch theorems to argue that blind processes are a no-go for explaining their origin. From there Luskin opens the webinar up to questions from the Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 20, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
aircraft navigation, aircraft navigation systems, algorithms, animal behavior, animal instincts, animal migration, Casey Luskin, chemotaxis, complex programmed behaviors, computer programming, CPBs, desert ant, Eric Cassell, eusocial insects, Evolution, foraging, GPS, honey bees, inertial navigation, innate behavior, insect behavior, instincts, Intelligent Design, migration, navigation, navigation sensors, Neo-Darwinism, odometer, path integration, polarized light compass, programmed behaviors, social insect colonies, sun compass, systems engineering}

Animal Algorithms Webinar: Desert Ants and Honey Bees

_{Eric Cassell

December 20, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future brings listeners the first half of a recent live webinar featuring author Eric Cassell fielding questions about his intelligent design book, Animal Algorithms: Evolution and the Mysterious Origin of Ingenious Instincts. Center for Science and Culture associate director Casey Luskin hosts. They begin the webinar discussing Cassell’s unique set of qualifications for writing the book, and then they move into a conversation about the amazing desert ant, a master navigator from birth, able to integrate multiple navigation sensors despite having an incredibly tiny brain. Cassell argues that these innate skills point to algorithms programmed into the ant’s brain and genome, and that such programming is far better explained by intelligent design than by any blind evolutionary Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 3, 2021

Categorized
Life Sciences

Tagged
aircraft navigation, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, animal migration, arctic tern, bird navigation, celestial navigation, chemotaxis, complex integrated systems, complex programmed behaviors, Darwinian Evolution, dead reckoning, desert ant, Eric Cassell, Evolution, FAA, GPS, great circle routes, homing pigeon, honey bees, instinct, Intelligent Design, magnetic compass, monarch butterflies, NASA, neural networks, odometer, path navigation, polarization, polarized light, pole star, Robert J. Marks, spherical geometry, sun compass, sun stone, Vikings}

New Book Spotlights High Tech Animal Navigation

_{Eric Cassell

November 3, 2021

Life Sciences}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights the new book Animal Algorithms: Evolution and the Mysterious Origin of Ingenious Instincts. The author, Eric Cassell, joins host and Baylor computer engineering professor Robert J. Marks to discuss the groundbreaking book and, in particular, the chapters on some of the animal kingdom’s most stunning navigators—the arctic tern, homing pigeons, the monarch butterfly, and the desert ant, among others. Cassell has degrees in biology and engineering, and he draws on these and his decades of professional expertise in aircraft navigation systems to show that these creatures instinctively employ navigational technologies that humans have only recently mastered. According to Cassell, their skills are driven by sophisticated algorithms embedded in their brains. But what created these algorithms Read More ›