18Sep 2021 by Post

Detecting Malicious Intent in Undisputed Design

Brent Spiner, Darwinism, forensic science, Holly Else, Intelligent Design, Matthew Hutson, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Mind Matters, Nature (journal), Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Caputo, peer-review, PNAS, Robert J. Marks, Silicon Valley, Sleeping Beauty, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starship Troopers, William Dembski
Within clearly designed objects, malicious intents can lurk. Intelligent design theory handles those, too, and should. Source
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13Aug 2021 by Post

Croft, Continued: More Thoughts on Meyer’s Debate with a Skeptic

aliens, background knowledge, car break-in, debate, Fran Lebowitz, IBE, inference to the best explanation, Intelligent Design, James Croft, motives, philosophers, philosophy, reductio ad absurdum, Return of the God Hypothesis, sensory experience, Skeptics, Stephen Meyer, Substack, William Dembski, windshield
I think he’s mistaken my emphasis in the specific car break-in examples I gave, namely that the burglars’ behavior was odd and unpredictable. Source
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16Jul 2021 by Post

Answering an Objection: “You Can’t Measure Intelligent Design”

Charles Lyell, cosmology, Darwinian evolution, Douglas Axe, Eugenie Scott, evolutionary biology, geologists, Geology, historical sciences, intelligent agency, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design Uncensored, Jonathan Witt, National Center for Science Education, Planck time, probability bound, specified complexity, specified information, Stephen Jay Gould, theo-meter, William Dembski
We test intelligent design in the same way that we test all historical scientific theories. Source
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06Jul 2021 by Post

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

"God of the gaps", adaptationist, Billions and Billions of Demons, brachiopod shells, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darioconus auricomus, Darwinism, empirical science, Evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, sea snail, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William Dembski, zoologists
The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Source
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01Jul 2021 by Post

Bernoulli, Keynes, and the Big Bang

A Treatise on Probability, Bertand’s Paradox, Conservation of Information, dice, distribution of reciprocals, Economics, fine-tuning, France, Great Britain, Jacob Bernoulli, John Maynard Keynes, Keynesian economics, No Free Lunch, nothing, Physics, Earth & Space, Principle of Insufficient Reason, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Scotland, something, thermodynamics, Wales, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
In analysis of fine-tuning, No Free Lunch Theorems, and conservation of information, Bernoulli’s PrOIR is foundational. Source
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20May 2021 by Post

Stephen Meyer: The Evidence “Cries Out” for God, Not the Other Way Around

Apologetics, Atheism, biology, BreakPoint, cosmology, Down syndrome, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, James Tour, John Stonestreet, materialism, mistakes, New Atheists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer, theism, unborn children, utilitarianism, William Dembski
I have heard ID dismissed as “apologetics,” with the implication of proponents in search of evidence to support a conclusion to which they're pre-committed. Source
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08Feb 2021 by Post

William Dembski on ID, Church Fathers, and a Problem for Atheists

Casey Luskin, Center for Science & Culture, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Faith & Science, How to be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist (Or Not), ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, origin of life, PhD, Podcast, Sean McDowell, The Patristic Understanding of Creation, Understanding Intelligent Design, University of Johannesburg, William Dembski
Let's celebrate the return of Casey Luskin and William Dembski to the intelligent design sphere. Source
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30Jan 2021 by Post

Casey Luskin Returns, Teases a New Book, Celebrates ID 3.0

Casey Luskin, Center for Science & Culture, conspiracy theory, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute, Geology, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, peer-reviewed literature, Podcast, Rob Crowther, South Africa, University of Johannesburg, William Dembski
Luskin tells about an upcoming book he’s been working on with William Dembski, another ID proponent who stepped away from day-to-day ID work. Source
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23Jan 2021 by Post

Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Measuring Mount Rushmore

algorithmic specified complexity, aliens, American history, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute Dallas, humanoids, humans, images, information, Intelligent Design, Mount Rushmore, pre-existing patterns, Robert J. Marks, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
A non-humanoid gelatinous alien might assign no meaning to the faces on Mount Rushmore if the alien had never seen a humanoid. Source
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