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Claude Shannon

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

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 ›
The Information Enigma

The Information Enigma: A Closer Look

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 ›
Alexander Oparin
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Evidence of Intelligent Design in the Origin of Life

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

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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Photo: A reproduction of Sputnik 1, an artificial satellite, National Air and Space Museum, by NSSDC, NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Crying “Chance, Chance” When There Is No Chance

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 ›
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Happy New Year! #1 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science

This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ. Read More ›
Claude Shannon
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Photo: Claude Shannon, by DobriZheglov [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?

Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics. Read More ›
George-Gilder

Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision

It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge Read More ›
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Yes, Intelligent Design Is Detectable by Science

This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ. Read More ›
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Photo: Clownfish and sea anenomes, by Jan Derk [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

On Origin of Life and More, Ideological Correctness Plagues Science

Ian O’Neill discusses origin-of-life research, and bizarrely restricts the explanations to “fluke” or “physics.” Read More ›

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