Author: Winston Ewert

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, augustine, Basil Willey, Christianity, Church Fathers, computer scientists, Copernican Revolution, creationists, Darwinian evolution, evolution, faith and science, historians, intelligent design, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universal common ancestry, Winston Ewert}

What’s Bothering Augustine?

_{Winston Ewert
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

7}

I began to understand that there was a rich history of the interaction between the Church and premodern science, but not one that is widely known. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, coincidence, deception, Design Inference, Gregor Mendel, honesty, improbability, New York Times, peas, plagiarism, probability, protocols, specification, UC San Diego}

Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 28, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Physical Sciences

8}

What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, biological systems, chance, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinians, evolution, intelligent design, luck, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pattern, probabilistic resources, probability, random, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, target, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, theists, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 27, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagella, biological systems, Brown University, complexity, Conservation of Information, Darwin's Black Box, Douglas Axe, epilogue, evolution, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, natural selection, No Free Lunch, random variation, Richard Dawkins, The Design Inference}

An Argument from Ignorance?

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
April 18, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Research, science}

Haarsma’s Pykaryotes — Another Failed Evolution Simulation

_{Winston Ewert
April 18, 2016

Computational Sciences, Evolution

1}

If Professor Haarsma's name sounds familiar that may be because he is the husband of BioLogos president Deborah Haarsma. Read More ›

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post

Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 23, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, science, Views}

Ev Ever Again — Eying an Evolutionary Simulation

_{Winston Ewert
March 23, 2016

Computational Sciences, Evolution

1}

Imagine coming across a dubious salesman with an allegedly magic swimming pool. He claims that the pool fills itself with water. Read More ›

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post

Author
Winston Ewert

Date
February 3, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Research, science, Views}

Steiner Wars: An Exchange with Dave Thomas

_{Winston Ewert
February 3, 2016

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

To visualize a Steiner tree, think about a collection of cities to be connected by a road network. Read More ›

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post

Author
Winston Ewert

Date
January 5, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, science, Views}

Beating a Dead Straw Horse

_{Winston Ewert
January 5, 2016

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

My recent series on specified complexity and conservation of information provoked responses that I would like to address. Read More ›

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post

Author
Winston Ewert

Date
December 5, 2015

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review}

Breaking Sticks

_{Winston Ewert
December 5, 2015

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

A large portion of post by ID critic Tom English is devoted to an example of conservation of information involving broken sticks. Read More ›

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post

Author
Winston Ewert

Date
December 4, 2015

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Research, science}

The GUC Bug

_{Winston Ewert
December 4, 2015

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

ID critics Joe Felsenstein and Tom English discuss a simple greedy search algorithm, which they name the GUC (Greedy Uphill Climber) Bug. Read More ›