Author: Winston Ewert

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
October 7, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Planetology
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Are the Planets Inhabited?, astronomers, canals, E. M. Antoniadi, E. Walter Maunder, earth, Giovanni Schiaparelli, intelligence, intelligent design, Is Mars Habitable?, Man’s Place in the Universe, Mariner 4, Mars, Mars (book), Mars and Its Canals, Mars as the Abode of Life, Martians, meteorites, optical illusions, Percival Lowell, planets, universe}

Canals on Mars: A Mistaken Design Inference

_{Winston Ewert
October 7, 2026

Astronomy, Planetology

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Any remaining doubts were settled by Mariner 4 which flew by Mars in 1965 and took pictures demonstrating that there were no canals. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 23, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, calculations, description, evolution, intelligent design, lake, logic, material, probability, rocks, scientific reasoning, specified complexity, stair-maker, staircase, stairs, steps, The Design Inference, words}

Stairs on a Lake: Inference to Design?

_{Winston Ewert
September 23, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Why exactly was I immediately convinced that someone had deliberately created the staircase? The material for the staircase, after all, is unremarkable. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 15, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, astrobiology, Darwinian theory, description length, descriptions, Design Inference, evolution, extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrial intelligent design, genetic code, intelligent design, intelligent message, International Journal of Astrobiology, misconception, natural evolution, nucleons, nucleotide, nucleotides, proline, side chains, specification, The Design Inference}

Be Careful! Don’t Think These Authors Are Practicing Intelligent Design

_{Winston Ewert
September 15, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The idea of finding an intelligent message encoded in the standard genetic code is certainly a fascinating possibility. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 14, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, background noise, design detection, extraterrestrial intelligence, improbability, intelligent aliens, Jerry Ehman, Ohio State University, outer space, researchers, SETI, standard deviations, William Dembski, Wow! signal}

The Wow! Signal and a Project in Design Detection

_{Winston Ewert
September 14, 2026

Intelligent Design, Physics

3}

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence searches through evidence from outer space in the hopes of finding something that indicates intelligent ET life. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 6, 2026

Categories
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biology, Christoph Adami, Conservation of Information, encoded information, evolution, functional sequences, information, intelligent design, mathematics, monkeys, monomers, origin of life, randomness, RNA world, Scrabble, The Evolution of Biological Information, William A. Dembski, William Shakespeare}

Origin of Life: The Fundamental Challenge

_{Winston Ewert
September 6, 2026

Mathematics, Origin of Life

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But what if instead of keyboards, the familiar monkeys were drawing Scrabble tiles? Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 4, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, airplanes, avida, benefit, budding yeast, Christoph Adami, code, conditional sections, error correction, evolutionary processes, genomes, information, mutation rate, mutational load, mutations, redundancy, redundant systems, robustness, selection, survival, The Evolution of Biological Information}

Evolutionary Origin of Information: The Problem of Robustness

_{Winston Ewert
September 4, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution

3}

It is surprising to me that the authors of these studies did not consider it more of a priority to understand the mechanics of robustness. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 3, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, biological complexity, Christoph Adami, Drosophila, evolution, fruit flies, functionality, generations, genes, information, Jingwei, mutations, populations, recombinations, The Evolution of Biological Information}

Evolution of New Genes: The Big “If”

_{Winston Ewert
September 3, 2026

Evolution, Genetics

3}

If the theory can explain the evolution of new genes then evolution can be a successful explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 2, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Artificial Cell Model, avida, calculations, Christoph Adami, complex systems, complexity, computer models, enzymes, evolution, evolutionary models, fitness, genomes, information, intelligent design, metabolites, precursor molecules, pykaryotes, simplicity, The Evolution of Biological Information, Thomas Ray, Tierra}

Evolutionary Models Reward Complexity for Complexity’s Sake

_{Winston Ewert
September 2, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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But then the complexity is not interesting. Crucially, it’s not really information. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Angraecum sesquipedale, Charles Darwin, Christoph Adami, coevolution, evolution, evolutionary theory, experiments, insects, Madagascar, natural selection, nectar, nectary, orchids, pollen, predictions, proboscis, sphinx moth, spur, The Evolution of Biological Information}

Orchids, Moths, and (Supposed) Evolutionary Predictions

_{Winston Ewert
August 26, 2026

Evolution, Life Sciences

3}

What Adami has actually done is taken a prediction that has nothing to do with evolution and attribute it to evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, amoebas, avida, bacteria, biological information, brains, cells, Christoph Adami, citrate, crystallin, Darwinian evolution, E. coli, evolution, flasks, intelligent design, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, Michigan State University, oxygen, Podarcis siculus, population, pre-existing information, recycling, Richard Lenski, temperatures, The Evolution of Biological Information, Tierra, UC Irvine, viruses}

Origin of Biological Information? Nope, Just Its Recycling

_{Winston Ewert
August 25, 2026

Biology, Evolution

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Followers of the debate between intelligent design and Darwinian evolution will be familiar with Christoph Adami's example. Read More ›