06Oct 2026 by Post

Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Computational Sciences, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, Evolution, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, Intelligent Design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Source
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05Oct 2026 by Post

“Displacement,” or Offloading, and the Mysterious Million Dollars

algorithm, Computational Sciences, David Wolpert, displacement, Evolution, evolutionary computing, information, intermediate sequences, My Personal History with Information, natural selection, No Free Lunch theorems, offloading, random sequence, Richard Dawkins, target, target sequence, The Blind Watchmaker, William Macready
imagine trying to explain how Alice came into possession of $1,000,000. It would be one thing to say that, based on skills and effort, she earned $1,000,000. Source
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04Oct 2026 by Post

The Evolution of Specified Complexity

algorithmic coding functions, American Scientific Affiliation, bookkeeping, Cambridge University Press, Charles Thaxton, Conservation of Information, crystals, Dembski’s Theorem, Discovery Institute, Evolution, improbability, information, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, Leslie Orgel, mathematics, My Personal History with Information (series), No Free Lunch, Noam Chomsky, Paul Nelson, philosophers, probabilities, R. A. Fisher, Rob Koons, Roger Olsen, specified complexity, statistical inference, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, The Origins of Life, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, University of Texas, Walter Bradley, Whitworth College, William A. Dembski, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Smith
Wolfgang Smith’s excitement about conservation of complex specified information or specified complexity was not widely shared. Source
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03Oct 2026 by Post

Philosophy, Theology, and an Inference to Design

Alexander Hall, Arthur Fine, Bill Wimsatt, David Hull, David Malament, design detection, Divorce, doctoral studies, Douglas Axe, Edward Teller, Evolution, Intelligent Design, J. Gresham Machen, Jonathan Wells, mathematics, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), natural theology, Northwestern University, Paul Nelson, Paul Teller, Phillip E. Johnson, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton University, probability, Sisyphus, specification, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, William Paley, Winston Ewert
My dissertation on the logic of conditionals came to seems like the rock of Sisyphus.  Source
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28Sep 2026 by Post

Remarkable Engineering and the “Two Brains” Myth

Ars Technica, biology, brain, designer, Engineering, Evolution, forebrain, hindbrain, John Timmer, midbrain, Nature (journal), nervous system, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, reptilian brain, signaling molecules, skin, Stanford University, tail, Tudor Tarita, two brains, vertebrates, ZME Science
Did two brains evolve into one? This is not a left brain/right brain thing. It is more like claims for a reptilian brain underlying our mammalian one. Source
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25Sep 2026 by Post

My History with Information: Opening Pandora’s Box

C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Close Encounters: A Better Explanation, Douglas Axe, Duane Gish, Evolution, extraterrestrials, Francis Schaeffer, G. K. Chesterton, Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Research, Intelligent Design, John Warwick Montgomery, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, New Age, Pandora’s box, Stephen Meyer, Steven Spielberg, UFOs, University of Illinois, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago Circle, William Dembski
Naturalism is like a Pandora’s box in that all of scientific explanation must be kept inside it. Source
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15Sep 2026 by Post

Be Careful! Don’t Think These Authors Are Practicing Intelligent Design

amino acids, astrobiology, Darwinian theory, description length, descriptions, Design Inference, Evolution, extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrial intelligent design, genetic code, genetics, Intelligent Design, intelligent message, International Journal of Astrobiology, misconception, natural evolution, nucleons, nucleotide, nucleotides, proline, side chains, specification, The Design Inference
The idea of finding an intelligent message encoded in the standard genetic code is certainly a fascinating possibility. Source
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09Sep 2026 by Post

The Marvel of a Seed — Applications for Intelligent Design

biotechnology, biotic populations, Center for Science and Culture, Christians, Conversations, Evolution, Faith & Science, farming, fruit, ID Education Day, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, John West, multicellular complexity, offspring, Pew Research Center, reproducibility, Science and Culture Today, seeds, seminars, Summer Seminars, synthetic biochemistry
Growth of the ID movement has occurred through “sowing the seeds” of evidential support for the theory. Source
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08Sep 2026 by Post

Duke University to Remove Access to C. W. Howell’s Dissertation with Fabrication

abstract, biochemists, C. W. Howell, Discovery Institute, dissertation, documentation, Duke University, Evolution, fabrication, Intelligent Design, investigation, Michael Behe, New York University Press, notation, Office of Counsel, public access, publishers, reputational harm
On August 27, I wrote to Duke's Office of Counsel, informing them that Howell’s book has been withdrawn by its publisher because of the fabricated quote. Source
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