In Debate with Meyer, Matt Dillahunty Brandishes His “Surveys”

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Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature. Source
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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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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
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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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Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

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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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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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So, You Say that No Cosmologists Have Ever Claimed the Universe Came from Nothing?

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Like mighty Samson of old, in a single-handed effort physicist Bruce Gordon responded to 1,870+ comments. Source
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Darwin’s Black Box, 30 Years On: A Seminal Contribution to Biology

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It makes sense to think that the T3SS didn’t evolve into the bacterial flagellum, but that the bacterial flagellum shed some protein parts to become a T3SS.  Source
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Irreducible Behe: The Shy Revolutionary Who Took Down Darwin

Albert Einstein, bacterial flagellar motor, biochemistry, cell's, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, George Gilder, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, microbiology, National Review, nature, New York Times, Paul Nelson, quantum theory, Revolutionary Behe, Robert Boyle, Stephen Meyer, Watson and Crick
The cell for Darwin was a black box. He was, in that sense, blind — and the blindness was the condition in which he formulated his theory. Source
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What Academics Actually Think: Higher Priorities and Silent Support for Design

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"One of the most encouraging things I’ve found in academia is how many people secretly support intelligent design." Source
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