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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Carl Linnaeus
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

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William A. Dembski

flagellum
irreducible complexity
Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.
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William A. Dembski
Date
April 20, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Uncommon Descent — A Farewell and Remembrance

William A. Dembski
April 20, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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I didn’t know what to expect from the blog when it started, but it quickly developed a following that was gratifying to see. Read More ›
Ide Trotter
Photo: Ide Trotter, PhD, Princeton-trained chemical engineer and Darwin skeptic, delivers testimony before the Texas State Board of Education.
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William A. Dembski
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April 17, 2023
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Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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We Will All Miss Ide Trotter

William A. Dembski
April 17, 2023
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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Ide was a straight-shooting no-nonsense Texan. He was as good a friend as intelligent design could have. Read More ›
John Keats
Photo: John Keats, by William Hilton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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William A. Dembski
Date
December 8, 2022
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Neuroscience & Mind
Science
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Move Over, Keats? Here Is AI-Generated Poetry

William A. Dembski
December 8, 2022
Neuroscience & Mind, Science
2
This poetry is bad to the point of hilarity, much as some movies are so bad that they're "good." Read More ›
computer
Photo credit: John Schnobrich via Unsplash.
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William A. Dembski
Date
December 6, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Science
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Dialogue with ChatGPT on Intelligent Design

William A. Dembski
December 6, 2022
Intelligent Design, Science
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ChatGPT is a context-dependent natural language generator that tries to respond relevantly to textual prompts from human users to simulate conversation. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.
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William A. Dembski
Date
September 6, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: An Appeal to Sanity

William A. Dembski
September 6, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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I’ll close with a story. My wife used to set up psychiatric units across the U.S. Read More ›
hawk eye
Photo: A hawk's eye, by abrinsky via Flickr (cropped).
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William A. Dembski
Date
September 2, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Science
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Probability Theory Is Irrelevant

William A. Dembski
September 2, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Science
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If you deny that probabilities apply to a physical process, you’ve abjured science — you no longer have a scientific theory. Read More ›
leaf hopper
Photo: A leaf hopper, by Cowli33, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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William A. Dembski
Date
September 1, 2022
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Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds

William A. Dembski
September 1, 2022
Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics
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Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper. Read More ›
weasel
Photo: METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL, by loren chapman, via Flickr (cropped).
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William A. Dembski
Date
August 31, 2022
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Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

William A. Dembski
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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Photo credit: Luke van Zyl via Unsplash.
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William A. Dembski
Date
August 30, 2022
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Evolution
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

William A. Dembski
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 ›
whopper
Photo credit: Lombroso, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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William A. Dembski
Date
August 29, 2022
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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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