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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arguments, causal adequacy, cosmic fine-tuning, digital information, DNA, evidence, explanations, God of the gaps, ignorance, information, intelligent cause, intelligent design, materialistic processes, mind, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, specified information, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, understanding}

Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, intelligent design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 6, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, biology, causal adequacy, creative intelligence, croissants, David Hume, DNA, fine-tuning, functional specificity, God Hypothesis, God of the gaps, hieroglyphics, improbability, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, J. P. Moreland, Kentucky Derby, living systems, materialistic explanations, Michael Shermer, natural world, parsimony, philosophy, physics, Pierre-Simon Laplace, placeholder, postulations, quantum cosmology, racehorse, religious scientists, scientific advance, scribe of the gaps, Seattle Slew II, specified information, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, universe, vera causa, William Lane Craig}

Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Critics of intelligent design or science-based theistic arguments often cite Isaac Newton as the prime example of a scientist who made this blunder. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, atheism, Bible, Britons, cosmologists, cultural Christianity, debates, fine-tuning, Frankie Howerd, Guy Consolmagno, humor, intelligent design, Joseph Stalin, knobs, liturgy, London, masturbation, meteorites, neo-Darwinian evolution, New Atheists, newspapers, philosophy, physicists, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, Sir Martin Rees, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, The Tablet, The Telegraph, Up Pompeii!, Vatican Observatory}

Stephen Meyer versus Richard Dawkins: A Contest Made in Heaven?

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Much of the response by Dawkins is defensive in tone, and shifts the discussion to one of ethics and philosophy with only a vague gesture towards science. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 4, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic coding functions, American Scientific Affiliation, bookkeeping, Cambridge University Press, Charles Thaxton, Conservation of Information, crystals, Dembski’s Theorem, Discovery Institute, improbability, information, intelligent design, laws of nature, Leslie Orgel, mathematics, My Personal History with Information (series), No Free Lunch, Noam Chomsky, Paul Nelson, philosophers, probabilities, R. A. Fisher, Rob Koons, Roger Olsen, specified complexity, statistical inference, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, The Origins of Life, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, University of Texas, Walter Bradley, Whitworth College, William A. Dembski, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Smith}

The Evolution of Specified Complexity

_{William A. Dembski
October 4, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Wolfgang Smith’s excitement about conservation of complex specified information or specified complexity was not widely shared. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 3, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alexander Hall, Arthur Fine, Bill Wimsatt, David Hull, David Malament, design detection, divorce, doctoral studies, Douglas Axe, Edward Teller, evolution, intelligent design, J. Gresham Machen, Jonathan Wells, mathematics, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), natural theology, Northwestern University, Paul Nelson, Paul Teller, Phillip E. Johnson, philosophy, philosophy of science, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton University, probability, Sisyphus, specification, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, William Paley, Winston Ewert}

Philosophy, Theology, and an Inference to Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 3, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science

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My dissertation on the logic of conditionals came to seems like the rock of Sisyphus. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 2, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, communication, elevator pitch, epistemologists, Fred Dretske, information, Inquiry (book), intelligent design, John Archibald Wheeler, John Horgan, Logic and the Flow of Information, MIT, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalists, physical causality, possibilities, Robert Stalnaker, Scientific American, semantic content, Shannon information, Stanford University, teleology}

An Elevator Pitch About What Information Is

_{William A. Dembski
October 2, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The conception of information as ruling out possibilities allows for teleological as well as non-teleological processes to generate information. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 1, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Christianity, complexity, denominations, eX-skeptic, faith, faith and science, inconsistency, intelligent design, Jana Harmon, magnifying glass, materialism, materialist lens, nature, periphery, physicists, podcast, puzzle, reality}

Brian Miller: The Blur at the Edges, Versus the Blur Everywhere

_{David Klinghoffer
October 1, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Evidence for intelligent design in nature may be clear to you, while other matters relating to faith remain far more perplexing. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, American Scientific Affiliation, biology, Cambridge, Charles Thaxton, Douglas Axe, England, information, intelligent design, My Personal History with Information (series), nonrandomness, Paul Nelson, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, Prague, randomness, Stephen Meyer, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago}

Flying Solo Before Joining Steve Meyer and Paul Nelson

_{William A. Dembski
October 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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I had a deep sense of calling that I needed to work on bringing design back into science. But I had no colleagues to talk with about this. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Skyrms, Cambridge University Press, chance, complexity, improbability, information, Jaakko Hintikka, My Personal History with Information (series), natural selection, Ohio State University, philosophy, randomness, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, Synthese, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, Winston Ewert}

Precursors to the Design Inference — And a Nod to Dawkins

_{William A. Dembski
September 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For Richard Dawkins, specified complexity required some special effort of explanation, but that effort could be performed by Darwinian natural selection. Read More ›