10Oct 2026 by Post

Being as Communion: The Metaphysics of Information

Angus Menuge, Aristotle, Ashgate, Being as Communion, blueprints, Brian Krouse, Claude Shannon, engineers, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Faith & Science, Holy Spirit, information, informational realism, language, logos, metaphysics, mind-body problem, musicians, My Personal History with Information (series), No Free Lunch, ontology, painters, philosophy, Plato, Robert J. Marks II, sculptors, Templeton Foundation, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Trinitarian God
"Painters create information by applying dabs of paint to canvas, sculptors by chiseling away at stone, musicians by writing notes on lined sheets of paper." Source
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09Oct 2026 by Post

Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

analogy, Atheism, Bible, biological information, Closer to Truth, Complexity, DNA, dogmatism, Douglas Adams, Faith & Science, functional specificity, genetics, God of the philosophers, improbability, information, Intelligent Design, Matt Dillahunty, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, New York University, Piers Morgan, Richard Dawkins, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Stephen Meyer, The Telegraph, theists, Thomas Nagel, universe
Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Source
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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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02Oct 2026 by Post

An Elevator Pitch About What Information Is

communication, elevator pitch, epistemologists, Fred Dretske, information, Inquiry (book), Intelligent Design, John Archibald Wheeler, John Horgan, Logic and the Flow of Information, MIT, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalists, physical causality, possibilities, Robert Stalnaker, Scientific American, scientific reasoning, semantic content, Shannon information, Stanford University, teleology
The conception of information as ruling out possibilities allows for teleological as well as non-teleological processes to generate information. Source
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29Sep 2026 by Post

Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

beginning, complex entities, cosmology, designer, DNA, Dunkirk, Energy, engines, evolutionary theory, fine-tuning, French recipes, infinite regress, information, initial entropy, Intelligent Design, matter, mind, neo-Darwinian mechanism, Ockham’s razor, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, software, Stephen Meyer, Stonehenge, The God Delusion, The Telegraph, uncaused cause, universe, Worldview
Suppose scientists did formulate a viable materialistic explanation for the origin of life. Couldn’t someone ask for an account of the origin of matter itself? Source
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27Sep 2026 by Post

Discovering a Design Argument Based on Biological Information

A. E. Wilder-Smith, Biochemical Predestination, biochemistry, cassette tapes, Charles Thaxton, Chemistry, Dean Kenyon, Energy, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Gary Steinman, information, Intelligent Design, Jon Buell, Lake Thun, Man’s Origin — Man’s Destiny, mathematics, My Personal History with Information (series), Of Pandas and People, origin of life, Philosophical Library, Roger Olsen, San Francisco State University, Switzerland, Technology, The Creation of Life, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Chicago, University of Helsinki, Walter Bradley
Charles Thaxton, along with Walter Bradley and Roger Olsen, wrote what arguably was the first official book of the intelligent design movement. Source
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26Sep 2026 by Post

Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism

A. E. Wilder-Smith, Apologetics, biological complexity, biology, Chinese Room, creationists, Faith & Science, function, genotype, information, information processing, Intelligent Design, John Searle, Marcel Schützenberger, Martin M. Kaplan, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, Paul S. Moorhead, phenotype, semantics, Stanislaw Ulam, The Creation of Life, University of Illinois at Chicago, William Dembski, Wistar Symposium, Young Earth Creationism
Biology was giving us computer programming and symbolic codes which, by mapping functional structures to functional structures, exhibited a tacit semantics.  Source
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