The Podcast

July 28, 2023 The Truth About AI that not 1 Video in 100 is Acknowledging
Bryan Trilli is a serial entrepreneur who owns a company called Optimized Marketing that trains machine learning programmers to write better code. In this interview, he forcefully challenges the fiction of the “AI Singularity” showing that it’s impossible for this to happen given current technology. Consequently, we are asking all...
July 18, 2023 Johnjoe McFadden: Occam’s Razor and Quantum Biology
Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is the best. While its application has many subtleties, it tells us that the best model of theory is the one that's most elegant and invokes the fewest extraneous explanations. Johnjoe McFadden is a professor at the University of Surrey in the UK and...
April 24, 2023 When Dinosaur Books Are More Dangerous Than Playboy Magazine
Scott Ransom’s mom grounded him from the nonfiction section of the library so that he would not be corrupted by evolutionary ideas from godless secular scientists. But the questions persisted and the fascination grew. Many years later, he wrote a book reconciling modern evolutionary science with ancient Hebrew texts. His...
March 20, 2023 Nature’s Invisible Symphony: The Sounds of Life with Karen Bakker
Did you know that 99% of the sounds in nature are at frequencies we cannot hear? Karen Bakker opens up an entire universe of sounds and communication between elephants, whales, moths, trees, tissues and even cells. The world around us is buzzing with communication and meaning that few of us...
March 1, 2023 The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AI – Interview with Nick Chatrath
For many years, we humans have bench-marked ourselves against machines without even realizing it. Many scientists believe that humans really are just machines. Nick Chatrath sharply disagrees and says that the age of AI is going to demand that humans be more human than ever before. He insists that we've...
February 23, 2023 From Rebellious Teenager to Young Adult: Intelligent Design Grows Up
Paul Nelson of the Discovery Institute blogged about my interview with Joana Xavier lamenting that we did not fully endorse intelligent design. This created a perfect opportunity for us to sit down and talk with Paul in person and discuss our agreements and differences.   Here we explore the gray...
February 14, 2023 Nancy’s Cancer: We spent $2M and tried EVERYTHING
Joe Riggio’s wife, Nancy, was given a maximum of 10 years to live in her cancer diagnosis. She lived for 17 years, most of them in a very active adventurous lifestyle. They spent $2M and pursued every alternative treatment imaginable. Here Dr. Joseph Riggio accounts in detail the journey with fascinating...
December 1, 2022 Special Live Zoom Session with Jenny Davis
Reversing Cancer needs your help. Some very specific help. . . I’ve invited Jenny Davis to talk to me about her struggles in the academic and research communities that vividly illustrate the dragon we need to slay. I know you’ll find it fascinating, but more than that, I think it’s highly...
November 2, 2022 Rocking the Foundations of Evolution
Karen Wong has a longtime interest in origins and evolution and we discuss what happens when you shift the definition of evolution. Old definition: Changes in gene frequencies acted upon by natural selection. New definition: Self-awareness at fractal levels of scale. Evolution 2.0 by Perry Marshall Biology Transcends the Limits...
September 14, 2022 The Biggest Mystery in the History of the Universe
Joana Xavier is a rising star in the Origin of Life field. She is a researcher at University College London. She recently authored a paper with Stuart Kauffman on autocatalytic networks, which are nature’s version of M.C. Escher’s hand drawing a hand. We discuss the uneasy relationship between professional scientists...
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