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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 31, 2022

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, evolution, Hamlet, information, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Stuart Mill, letters, logic, natural selection, polynucleotides, replication, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), selection, simplicity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, variation, William Shakespeare}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

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August 31, 2022

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution. Read More ›

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William A. Dembski

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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, beta-lactamase, Darwinism, Darwinists, debates, Douglas Axe, E. coli, evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jason Rosenhouse, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, probabilistic resources, Richard Lenski, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), Sisyphus, specified complexity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

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August 30, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›

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William A. Dembski

Date
August 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Amazon, Books & Culture, Brian Miller, Cambridge University Press, Darwinists, Erik Larson, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Evolution News, First Things, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Kenneth Miller, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: More Guidance on Reading Jason Rosenhouse

_{William A. Dembski
August 29, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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So much in Rosenhouse’s book is careless, giving no indication that he has carefully studied and adequately comprehended my work or that of my colleagues. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, artificial life, Conservation of Information, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, disinformation, evolution, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Jonathan Wells, Richard Lenski, Robert Pennock, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Meyer, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, Winston Ewert, Wistar Institute, Zombie Science (book)}

Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse

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July 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Does it really need to be pointed out that roads are designed? That where they go is designed? And that even badly laid out roads are laid out by design? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, active information, artificial life, computer simulations, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, fitness landscapes, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), 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 program, Wikipedia, Winston Ewert}

Conservation of Information — The Theorems

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July 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, algorithms, artificial life, avida, Conservation of Information, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Hamlet, information, intelligence, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Peter Medawar, Santa Fe Institute, The Blind Watchmaker, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William Shakespeare}

Conservation of Information — The Idea

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June 30, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 29, 2022

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Arthur Hunt, bacteria, BIO-Complexity, chloroquine resistance, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), James Shapiro, Jason Rosenhouse, Kenneth Miller, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, Nature (journal), On the Origin of Species, Plasmodium falciparum, probabilities, The Edge of Evolution, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, University of Chicago}

Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

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June 29, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Read More ›

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William A. Dembski

Date
June 28, 2022

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Jason Rosenhouse and Specified Complexity

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June 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Not all patterns eliminate chance in the presence of improbability. Take an arrow shot at a target. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 27, 2022

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, co-option, coevolution, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, Michael Behe, No Free Lunch, probabilities, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Jason Rosenhouse and “Mathematical Proof”

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June 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwinists have always hidden behind the complexities of biological systems. As always, they assume no burden of proof. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, evolution, fitness, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Michael Behe, poker, Powerball, probability, protein space, Stephen Meyer, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, waiting-time problem}

Rosenhouse and Discrete Hypercube Evolution

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June 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Why have I just gone through this exercise with the 100-dimensional discrete hypercube, giving it the full track 2 monty? Two reasons. Read More ›