21Dec 2023 by Post

To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

"God of the gaps", Aristotle, body, causation, Christianity, DNA, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, mind, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pierre-Simon Laplace, proteins, René Descartes, ribosomes, science of purpose, scientism, soul, Stephen Meyer, subject-object metaphysics, Thomas Aquinas, William Dembski
It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Source
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08Dec 2023 by Post

Can Mathematics Be Used to Detect Design in Nature? | with Dr. William Dembski

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS How do we know that life is designed? Would it surprise you to know that it can be done mathematically? You see, things like biological systems, specified complexity, and probabilistic hurdles leave no reasonable explanation for life as we know it without a creator. But are atheists and skeptics willing and able to address these hurdles without attributing them to so-called “chance”? In this week’s podcast episode, Frank interviews Dr. William “Bill” Dembski, one of the founders of the modern-day intelligent design movement, who has an impressive academic background in philosophy, mathematics, and theology and sits on the Board of Directors at the Discovery Institute. In this…
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10Nov 2023 by Post

Must AI Inevitably Degenerate into Nonsense, through “Model Collapse”?

Artificial Intelligence, Arxiv.org, Baylor University, cats, ChatGPT, computer science, COSM 23, Creativity, Culture & Ethics, Denyse O'Leary, Dogs, gene pool, George Montañez, Harvey Mudd College, humans, inbreeding, jackrabbits, large language models, model collapse, Neuroscience & Mind, nonsense, Popular Mechanics, Pornography, recursion, Robert J. Marks, Walter Myers, William Dembski
AI works because humans are real creative beings, and AIs are built using gigantic amounts of diverse and creative datasets made by humans. Source
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09Nov 2023 by Post

Ahead of New Book Edition, Geoglyphs and Natural Features Test Dembski’s Design Inference

Amazonia, beavers, Crazy Horse Memorial, earthworks, Emilio Guirado, Face on Mars, fairy circles, forests, Garamantes, Gutzon Borglum, Harvard University, Henry Standing Bear, Intelligent Design, Jackson Pollock, Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Korczak Ziolkowski, LIDAR, Life Sciences, Man in the Moon, Mount Rushmore, New Scientist, New York University, North Africa, Orion the Hunter, PNAS, Pre-Columbian era, Rube Goldberg, Science (journal), The Design Inference, Tom Metcalfe, University of Portsmouth, V. Peripato, William Dembski, Winston Ewert, Xiaoli Dong
Designed features can hide in plain sight. A closer look can sometimes reveal the intentional acts of a mind. Source
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11Jul 2023 by Post

Postcard from São Paulo: Intelligent Design Sung to a New Tune in Brazil

Adauto Lourenço, Ann Gauger, atheists, Brazil, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Brazilian Society for Intelligent Design, Brazilian Society of Intelligent Design, debates, Doubts About Darwin, Douglas Axe, Enézio de Almeida Filho, English, epigenetics, Evolution, fine-tuning, Fomos Planejados, Heleno Hauer, ID Bird, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Juan Manuel Torres, Kelson Mota, Luiz Felipe Pondé, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Philip Johnson, Portuguese, Ricardo Marques, São Paulo, Spanish, Stephen Meyer, teoria do design inteligente, Tom Woodward, William Dembski
The theme of the conference was familiar to us, but I’d like to think that we’ve heard it sung to a new tune in more ways than one.  Source
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15Jun 2023 by Post

Defining Science, and Discussing Stephen Meyer’s God Hypothesis, on Twitter

Amazon, Christianity, cosmology, Dave Farina, empiricism, Energy, Evolution, faith and science, history, humility, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, logic, matter, Philosophy of Science, realism, reason, Return of the God Hypothesis, Robert Boyle, Stephen Meyer, TBN, theists, Twitter, William Dembski
"God is a hypothesis. What Dr. Meyer does is evaluate that hypothesis against the latest scientific evidence of the last century." Source
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28Jul 2022 by Post

In Critiquing Dembski, Jason Rosenhouse Prioritizes Imagination over Reality

Ann Gauger, Arthur Hunt, bacterial flagella, biological structures, circular reasoning, Conservation of Information, design detection, Douglas Axe, Evolution, Günter Bechly, information, Intelligent Design, James Madison University, mathematics, mind, molecular machines, natural selection, Ola Hössjer, Panda's Thumb, probability space, Robert J. Marks, rotary motors, royal flush, specified complexity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
Jason Rosenhouse, a mathematician who teachers at James Madison University, is the author of the recent book The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism. The purpose of the book is to discredit the mathematical and algorithmic arguments presented by ID proponents against the plausibility of undirected evolution crafting complex novelties. Rosenhouse focuses much of his critique on William Dembski’s design-detection formalism based on specified complexity. Dembski responded in detail to Rosenhouse’s arguments, highlighting Rosenhouse’s confusion over Dembski’s theoretical framework and its application to biological systems (here,here). Rosenhouse in turn responded to Dembski’s critique. His counter-response, published at Panda’s Thumb, reveals that his opposition to Dembski is not based on any flaws in the substance of Dembski’s work but instead on Rosenhouse’s unassailable faith in the limitless Read More › Source
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