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
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15Sep 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: Venetoraptor Is Not the Archaeopteryx of Pterosaurs

anatomy, archosauromorph, Argentina, Bill Nye, Brazil, Calcari di Zorzino Formation, cladogram, common ancestry, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, David Attenborough, Evolution, flying reptiles, Greenland, lagerpetids, paleontology, Popular Science, pterosaur wings, Pterosauria, pterosaurs, Scleromochlus, Scotland, Triassic period, Venetoraptor gassenae, Wikipedia
Forget all the pop science ballyhoo, and if you should not trust my word, just check the provided primary sources. Source
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01Jul 2022 by Post

Conservation of Information — The Theorems

active information, artificial life, Basic Argument from Improbability, combinatorics, computer simulations, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, Dawkins Weasel, Easter egg, Erik Tellgren, Evolution, fitness functions, fitness landscapes, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Holmes Rolston, information, Intelligent Design, Jason Rosenhouse, No Free Lunch theorems, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, search, Templeton Prize, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, Thomas Schneider, weasel, Wikipedia, Winston Ewert
We’ve seen active information before in the Dawkins Weasel example. The baseline search for METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL stands no hope of success. Source
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11Jun 2022 by Post

Lateral Line: A “Sixth Sense” for Fish (And Other Cool Tricks)

Aquarium of the Pacific, biology, California, Coho salmon, electric eels, Electrophorus electricus, fish, Fish Cannon, Fraser River, hair cells, Intelligent Design, Jodie Rummer, John Oliver, Lake Malawi, lateral line, Life Sciences, Living Waters, Long Beach, marine biology, Moorpark College, Nature Communications, NOAA, Physical Review Letters, Science (journal), sensory cells, sixth sense, Stanford University, toxins, University of Florida, University of Minnesota, Usain Bolt, Whooshh Innovations, Wikipedia
What’s remarkable is that this organ constitutes an analog-to-digital converter, as pressure waves (analog) are converted to electrical signals. Source
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19Feb 2022 by Post

A Darwin Day Exhibit Backfires

academic freedom, biology, English, Evolution, free speech, Germany, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Lehigh University, memory hole, Podcast, Ray Bohlin, Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Uncategorized, Wikipedia
Hear the story of how leading German paleo-entomologist and Darwinist Günter Bechly became convinced of intelligent design. Source
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25Nov 2021 by Post

On Thanksgiving, Support the Scientific Defense of Common Sense

1984, algorithms, Big Tech, Boston University, Casey Luskin, Darwin’s Cancel Culture, Douglas Axe, dystopia, eric hedin, Evolution News, free speech, George Orwell, News Media, paid promotion, psychologists, search engines, Stephen Meyer, Thanksgiving, U.C. Berkeley, Wikipedia, William Dembski, World Magazine
“The heresy of heresies was common sense,” Orwell writes. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Source
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10Sep 2021 by Post

Luskin at The Federalist — Freedom Is Threatened; Now Will You Listen?

anti-science, Atheism, Ball State University, Big Tech, BioEssays, Canceled Science, Casey Luskin, conspiracy theorists, corporate media, Darwinian theory, eric hedin, Evolution, free speech, information suppression, intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, News Media, power, schools, Soviet Union, survey, The Federalist, United States, University of Michigan, Wikipedia
Critics of Darwinian theory have faced exactly such a campaign — not just recently but going back a couple of decades. Source
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27Aug 2021 by Post

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

"poor design", bioinformatics, biological structures, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, Eva Balsa-Canto, Evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, Intelligent Design, Julio R. Banga, Junk DNA, knee, Living with Darwin, Nathan Lents, Nikolaos Tsiantis, optimality, pelvis, Philip Kitcher, scientific materialism, teleology, whales, Wikipedia
Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Source
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