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21Aug 2024 by Post

William Dembski: What’s the Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?

Aaron Zimmer, biology, cosmic fine-tuning, designing agent, Elie Feder, Evolution, Evolution News, fine-tuning, genetic machinery, Intelligent Design, magical thinking, Mike Licona, Podcast, The Design Inference, William Dembski, Winston Ewert

What exactly is the very best evidence for a designing agent behind nature? There are a number of contenders and, interestingly, not all ID proponents agree. Source

12Aug 2024 by Post

Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, biology, Carl Woese, causation, cell, Chance and Necessity, David Hume, dispositionalism, Evolution News, final cause, Intelligent Design, intentionality, Isaac Newton, Jacques Monod, Life Sciences, Michael Behe, organelle, powers ontology, purpose, René Descartes, science of purpose, telos, The Design Inference, Walter Elsasser, William Dembski

Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate. Source

03Jun 2024 by Post

“Move Along, Nothing to See Here”: What Happens When You Challenge a Dominant Narrative

BBC Horizon, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, California, Cambridge University Press, design filter, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Miller, Michael Shellenberger, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, nature, Nature (journal), North Atlantic Right Whale, Patrick Brown, Save the Right Whale Coalition, scientific materialism, specification, The Design Inference, wildfires, William Dembski, Winston Ewert

William Dembski no longer has to be coy about the challenge his design filter poses for modern evolutionary theory. Source

29Feb 2024 by Post

Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure

algorithmic specified complexity, cars, Evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, languages, No Free Lunch, Philosophia Christi, probabilistic resources, Robert Marks, royal flush, Shannon information, Specification: The Pattern That Signifies Intelligence, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert

The most important take away here is that specified complexity makes Shannon information and Kolmogorov information commensurable. Source

26Feb 2024 by Post

Specified Complexity Made Simple: The Historical Backdrop

Charles Thaxton, complex specified order, English, Evolution, Francis Crick, information theory, Intelligent Design, Jason Rosenhouse, Leslie Orgel, letters, On Protein Synthesis, Paul Davies, random order, repetitive order, Roger Olsen, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia, William Dembski

What happened to change the fortunes of specified complexity in the mainstream scientific community? The intelligent design movement happened. Source

17Jan 2024 by Post

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

1984, Ahmed Shaheed, antiracists, Bertrand Russell, Big Brother, C.S. Lewis, causation, clinical psychology, Darwinian evolution, Enlightenment, Evolution, free speech, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, Keith Stanovich, law enforcement, mental fertility, mental immunity, mental integrity, mental privacy, Miracles (book), neuropsychology, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Caputo, North Korea, nudging, Simon McCarthy-Jones, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, thoughtspeech, Timothy Stratton, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson

An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Source

12Jan 2024 by Post

Design Inference 2.0: FREE Webinar with Dembski and Ewert

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Join mathematician William Dembski and computer scientist Winston Ewert as they discuss the significance of their new book and answer your questions. Source

04Jan 2024 by Post

Harvard President Is Out Thanks to Design Filter

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William Dembski explains in an excellent new podcast interview with Christopher Sernaque. Source

27Dec 2023 by Post

No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

atheists, Being as Communion, Belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, Culture & Ethics, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, Judgment, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Persuasion, reality, Reasoning, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos

Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Source

17Nov 2023 by Post

Bill Dembski Reflects on the Origins of a Classic

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Twenty-five years later, Dembski’s arguments stand firm, and a second edition with fresh analysis and insight is now available to a new generation. Source

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