Tag: Claude Shannon

Surreal landscape with a split road and signpost arrows showing two different courses, left and right direction to choose. Road splits in distinct direction ways. Difficult decision, choice concept.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Charles Darwin, Claude Shannon, communication theory, contraction, decisions, diminution, earth, etymology, evolution, formal causation, Greek, Indo-European, information, intellect, intelligence, intelligence metrics, intelligent design, Latin, logos, marriage, natural selection, New Testament, possibilities, Robert Stalnaker, select, selection, Texas, United States}

Information, Intelligence, and Decision: Concepts Underpinning the Theory of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin’s great coup was to co-opt the term "selection," previously associated with the conscious choice of purposive agents. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Benjamin Franklin, chicken, Claude Shannon, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Essays on Life Itself, garden snail, genome, George D. Rose, Hypatia of Alexandria, information, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, junk DNA, Levinthal paradox, Life Itself, logos, Michael Levin, nature, Neoplatonism, Nous, Peter Tompa, physical world, Plato's Revenge, Plotinus, Protein Science (journal), Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, seashells, snails, The Physical Basis of Biology, Walter Elsasser, whiteboard, yeast}

A Diffident Revolutionary

_{David Klinghoffer
June 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur C. Clarke, Chinese, Claude Shannon, Contact (novel), demiurge, Dubai, English, etymology, Hamlet, Hebrew, information, inkblot, intelligence, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, Ludwig Wittgenstein, marbles, Moses, Plato, probabilistic resources, probability, rock, SETI, Shannon information, specification, specified complexity, Stone Age, The Design Inference, Timaeus, William Shakespeare}

Why Specified Complexity Is Key to Detecting Design

_{William A. Dembski
May 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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In plain English here is what specified complexity is and why it is able to detect design. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bits, Claude Shannon, coin toss, complexity, distortion, error correction, improbability, information, information theory, Kolmogorov information, No Free Lunch, pattern, randomness, Shannon information, specification, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference}

Shannon and Kolmogorov Information

_{William A. Dembski
February 28, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There’s a deep connection between probability and complexity. This connection is made clear in Shannon’s theory of information. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
March 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Bill Gates, Claude Shannon, computer code, DNA, evolution, functional information, genetic code, Henry Quastler, information, intelligent design, Leroy Hood, molecular machines, nucleotide bases, protein molecules, Richard Dawkins, sequence hypothesis, sequence specificity, SETI, Signature in the Cell, specified information, Stephen Meyer, symbols, Watson and Crick, What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design? (series)}

The Origin of Life and the Information Enigma

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 24, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

6}

In 1953, when Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of the DNA molecule, they made a startling discovery. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Science Education
Tagged
, Claude Shannon, computer code, DiscoveryU, DNA, education, information, intelligent design, mathematician, quizzes, Return of the God Hypothesis, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer}

Understanding “Information” — A Key to the Intelligent Design Debate

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Science Education

2}

With reading assignments and quizzes, this course is a great way to polish your skills in explaining ID without suffering a spade-shoveling mishap of your own. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
June 19, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino-acid sequences, animal phyla, Claude Shannon, computer science, coordination, DNA, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolutionary theory, foresight, functional information, Hubert Yockey, information, information content, intelligent design, Intelligent Design YouTube Festival, No Free Lunch theorems, philosophical bias, Robert J. Marks II, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, β-lactamase}

The Information Enigma: A Closer Look

_{Brian Miller
June 19, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

I will flesh out the concept of biological information, and I will explain why significant quantities of it cannot be generated through natural processes. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Oparin, biological information, biologists, chance, chemical evolution, Claude Shannon, complexity, DNA, functional specificity, intelligent design, living cells, natural selection, random events, RNA, specification, specified complexity, The Mystery Life’s Origin}

Evidence of Intelligent Design in the Origin of Life

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 3, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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As the pioneering chemical evolutionary theorist Alexander Oparin put it, “The problem of the nature of life and the problem of its origin have become inseparable.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 27, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, abiogenesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Allan Bloom, Anaxagoras, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, Claude Shannon, Dean Kenyon, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, Guillermo Gonzalez, Harvard University, Hubert Yockey, intelligent design, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, Leslie Orgel, Lord Byron, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Michael Polanyi, Miller-Urey experiment, Percy Shelley, Plato, Return of the God Hypothesis, RNA, San Francisco State University, Shannon information, Signature in the Cell, Socrates, spaghetti, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, uniformitarianism, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

Mystery of Life’s Origin — Intelligent Design’s Original Edition, Greatly Expanded, on Sale Now!

_{David Klinghoffer
January 27, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›

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Date
March 13, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, agency, artificial satellites, asteroids, chance, Claude Shannon, earth, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionists, extraterrestrials, Illustra Media, James Clerk Maxwell, materialists, Maxwell’s demon, meteorites, Nature (journal), Paul Davies, photosynthesis, proteins, Richard Dawkins, The Demon in the Machine, Turing Machine}

Crying “Chance, Chance” When There Is No Chance

_{Science and Culture
March 13, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design

7}

Note the artfully deployed passive voice. One-way traffic “was finally counteracted by the launch of the first artificial satellites.” Who counteracted it? Read More ›