16Nov 2025 by Post

Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail

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In our experience, this type of specified information always comes from a mind, whether it’s hieroglyphics or the origin of a car. Source
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14Jul 2025 by Post

How Did the Designer Do It? 

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Source
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20Nov 2024 by Post

Protein Designers Explore Sequence Space

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They may call it evolution, but it is all about intelligent design and artificial selection, not Darwinism. Source
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20Aug 2024 by Post

Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

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Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes). Source
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19Aug 2024 by Post

Examining the Fine-Tuning Argument by Elimination

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In his article “Has the Multiverse Replaced God?” William Lane Craig presents the fine-tuning argument using the process of elimination. Source
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15Nov 2023 by Post

Why Free Will Denial Is Self-Refuting

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The only "scientific" basis for the denial of free will is determinism, the theory that every change in nature is determined prior to its occurrence. Source
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07May 2022 by Post

Can Materialistic Models Accommodate the Scientific Data?

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Would you believe someone who claimed that fairies and leprechauns were caught on video, but they are too small or too fast to be seen? Source
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18Jun 2020 by Post

Chance, Necessity, and Design

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ID supporters continue to send me emails about Josh Swamidass. The latest hammers on a comment I made in 2008 at Uncommon Descent, namely: “I’ve pretty much dispensed with the EF [Explanatory Filter]. It suggests that chance, necessity, and design are mutually exclusive. They are not. Straight CSI is clearer as a criterion for design detection.” I would not write that now. In my view the filter is just fine and it neither conflates nor falsely differentiates the three modes of explanation (chance, necessity, and design). My comment back then should be seen as an unnecessary concession to critics, not as undercutting the filter per se. To properly use the Explanatory Filter, it is vital to identify what exactly one is trying to explain. Take a rusted automobile. In Jonathan Waldman’s wonderful…
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10Jun 2020 by Post

Information, Specified Complexity, and the Explanatory Filter

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On a new episode of ID the Future, listen to the third and final portion of a talk given at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Daniel Reeves, Educational Outreach Coordinator at Discovery Institute, rounds out his explanation of intelligent design theory. Download the podcast or listen to it here. Far from being “Gee whiz, that’s complicated; it must be designed!” the theory relies on well-defined concepts such as specified complexity and an explanatory filter that allows one to distinguish designed events from chance, necessity, or a combination of the two. The key lies in the molecular biological realm: detecting functional information.  Photo: Daniel Reeves, by Nathan Jacobson. The post Information, Specified Complexity, and the Explanatory Filter appeared first on Evolution News.
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