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04Oct 2026 by Post

The Evolution of Specified Complexity

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Wolfgang Smith’s excitement about conservation of complex specified information or specified complexity was not widely shared. Source

03Oct 2026 by Post

Philosophy, Theology, and an Inference to Design

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My dissertation on the logic of conditionals came to seems like the rock of Sisyphus. Source

07Jul 2026 by Post

Biological Codes, and More: Evolutionists Scramble for an Adequate Cause

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Much of the information essential to cellular function isn’t editable via random genetic mutations in DNA and is thus inaccessible to the Darwinian mechanism. Source

28Feb 2026 by Post

Debating Intelligent Design, Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points

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With DNA replication, it is unclear what other systems any of the components might be co-opted from. Source

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

21Mar 2025 by Post

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Source

16Dec 2024 by Post

Intelligent Design and Aquinas’ Fifth Way

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Saint Thomas did not have examples of specified complexity as in molecular biology, but it is possible to find a text that suggests he would favor of ID. Source

14Nov 2024 by Post