Mushrooms & Milkshakes
AI Deception
* Be Not Deceived: This week Fred Williams and Doug McBurney welcome Daniel Hedrick for an update on the evolution of Artificial Intelligence with a countdown of the top 10 modern AI deceptions.
* Number 10: DeepMind’s AlphaStar in StarCraft II (2019). AlphaStar learned to feint attacks—basically fake moves to trick opponents. No one programmed it to lie; it emerged from training. A classic case of deceptive strategy by design.
* Number 9: LLM Sycophancy (2024). Large Language Models will sometimes flatter or agree with you, no matter what you say. Instead of truth, they give you what you want to hear—deception through people-pleasing.
* Number 8: Facial Recognition Bias (2018). These systems were far less accurate for dark-skinned women than for light-skinned men. Companies claimed high accuracy, but the data told a different story. Deceptive accuracy claims.
Bombs Away! Part II w/Dr. Andy McIntosh
Bombs Away! Part I w/Dr. Andy McIntosh
Listen to Part II HERE
*Andy McIntosh, PhD: This week Fred Williams and Doug McBurney welcome a brilliant mind in science and design — Dr. Andy McIntosh. He’s a professor of thermodynamics and combustion theory, and he joins RSR to help us understand one of the most sophisticated combustion engines ever observed! He states in his biography that: “At Bangor University in North Wales in the early 1970s... ...At that point we only had Whitcomb and Morris’ book, ‘The Genesis Flood’, and a few others. But to us the issue was clear – what is in the Bible must determine all our beliefs. The straightforward interpretation is 99% of the time, the way to interpret Scripture.”
All Science is Creation Science with CRS Director Joel Brown, PhD
* Dr. Joel Brown: This week Fred Williams and Doug McBurney welcome Creation Research Society Director Joel Brown. He was a pastor’s son, who chose to trust Christ from a young age. He got his undergraduate degree in Biology Education at Pensacola Christian College and spent ten years in secular research. He earned a master’s degree in biology from the University of West Florida, followed by a PhD in Molecular Biology from Cornell. He then spent five years teaching biology to high schoolers.
He joined CRS in no small part because Ecclesiastes 12:1 reminded him to “remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth.” Dr. Brown wants to help churches, believers, and young people think through some of the greatest questions of all, the questions of our origins and our past.
Creationist Sal Cordova Speaks at Evolution 2025 Conference Pt 2
* Evolution 2025! Fred Williams welcomes creation scientist Sal Cordova, fresh from presenting at the world’s leading evolution conference.
* Most Viewed Presentation! Hear how Sal’s talk on redefining “fitness” and exposing genetic decay became the #1 concurrent session video on the conference’s official YouTube channel.
* Biology Outpaces Technology: More fun Quantumness - Discover how quantum compasses in birds, photon-sensing eyes, and molecular machines surpass human engineering.
Creationist Sal Cordova Speaks at Evolution 2025 Conference
* Evolution 2025! Fred Williams welcomes creation scientist Sal Cordova, fresh from presenting at the world’s leading evolution conference.
* Most Viewed Presentation! Hear how Sal’s talk on redefining “fitness” and exposing genetic decay became the #1 concurrent session video on the conference’s official YouTube channel.
* Biology Outpaces Technology: More fun Quantumness - Discover how quantum compasses in birds, photon-sensing eyes, and molecular machines surpass human engineering.
Captain America Visits Real Science Radio
Standing for the Truth of Endogenous Retroviruses
* Stand Up! This week Fred Williams and Doug McBurney welcome Donny Budinsky and Matt Nailor of Standing for Truth Ministries to discuss the Bible, DNA, and endogenous retroviruses.
* Fetal Development and Exogenous Viruses... Hear how ERV's behave like antiviral components of immune response, and appear to be instrumental in embryological development.
Standing for the Truth of Adam & Eve
* Starting with the Bible: Hear Donny Budinsky and Matt Nailor answer Aron Ra's phylogeny challenge out of the Bible, (which happens to be confirmed by empirical science).