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November 2023

C.-S.-Lewis
Photo: C. S. Lewis, via Asar Studios/Alamy (Celestial Images).

Remembering C. S. Lewis on Intelligent Design

Lewis died on this day, November 22, sixty year ago in 1963. He frequently examined the impact of modern science on human life. Read More ›
RNA
Image: RNA, via Illustra Media’s documentary Origin.

Newly Published Paper in BioEssays Recognizes Kuhnian “Paradigm Shift” Against Junk DNA

A new theory “emerges first in the mind of one or a few individuals” but then it spreads because the field faces “crisis-provoking problems.” Read More ›
Wallace's flying frog
Photo: Wallace's flying frog, via Wikimedia Commons.

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology. Read More ›
Wallace notebooks
Wallace notebooks
Photo: Wallace's notebooks, at the Linnean Society, London, by John Cummings / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

If any modern ID proponent fits the Wallacean model it is biologist Michael Behe. Read More ›
Dead Sea Scrolls
Photo: From the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Design: A Scientific Proxy for Intelligence

The Dead Sea Scrolls are an example of a design artifact for which intelligence is inferred as the source. Read More ›
Bayes' Theorem
Bayes' Theorem
Photo: Bayes' Theorem, by mattbuck (category) / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).

Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide

If the phrase “Bayesian calculus” makes you want to run for the hills, you’re not alone! Bayesian logic can sound intimidating at first. Read More ›
royal flush
Photo: A royal flush, by Flush Kreuz

Understanding the Genius of The Design Inference

Being dealt four poker hands that were all royal flushes would be a very rare and special pattern, pointing to someone cheating. Read More ›
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Image source: Discovery Institute.

A New Design Inference for a New Generation

Is there an empirical method to determine whether a system is the product of chance or design? Read More ›
Sam Harris
Photo: Sam Harris, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

Rather than refute Harris by pointing out why his statement scores high on the irony meter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to do it for me. Read More ›
Curiosity rover
Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Proteins Are Rare and Isolated — And Thus, Cannot Evolve

Here is a simple analogy. Imagine a planetary rover lands on the north pole of a planet, and the humans controlling it wish to drive to the south pole. Read More ›

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