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Testing Scientific Hypotheses Using Specified Complexity

Observing a crumb trail and an opened cookie jar, we infer that a child has been at work. Science requires more precision in weighing explanations. Read More ›
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Photo: Your winter retreat, by Ian Keefe via Unsplash.

Unifying Specified Complexity: Rediscovering Ancient Technology

Returning to your winter retreat, mentioned in the last post, the symbols you discovered remain on your mind. Read More ›
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Photo credit: A stone carved with ancient runes, by Lindy Buckley, via Flickr(cropped).

Measuring Surprise — A Frontier of Design Theory

The carvings look sustained (there are many of them) and deliberate, unlike creases created by splitting and pitting of surfaces over ages. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Bramante Staircase in the Vatican Museums by Reuben Teo on Unsplash.

BIO-Complexity Article Offers an Objective Method for Weighing Darwinian Explanations

Skeptics of evolutionary theory have argued that proposed Darwinian processes don’t rise to the level of plausible detailed explanations for the emergence of complex life. Read More ›
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Ewert’s Dependency Graph Proposal: A Forest of Compositions

To help further explain this concept, I would like to introduce readers to my pet bunny, Daisy.  Read More ›
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Critics Need to Grapple with Ewert’s Challenge to Darwin’s Tree

If the evidence is more suggestive of a creative enterprise like software engineering, that would have major implications. Read More ›
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From Ewert’s Dependency Graph Paper – A “Gut Punch” to Darwin’s Tree?

I’m reminded again that the Bradley Center’s Robert Marks, among many other distinctions, was born to podcast. Read More ›
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Response to Swamidass: Confusion in a Review of Theistic Evolution

It’s worth engaging him, since Swamidass is the relatively rare critic of ID who works at tackling arguments for design in a substantive fashion. Read More ›
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A Suspicious Pattern of Deletions

Winston Ewert recently published a paper in BIO-Complexity suggesting that life is better explained by a dependency graph than by a phylogenetic tree. Read More ›
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Correspondence: A Father, an Atheist Son, and Darwin Heretic Matti Leisola

The father had sent his son a copy of our book, urging him to read it so the two could discuss the evidence and arguments there. Read More ›

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