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What Is Intelligent Design and How Should We Defend It?

Intelligent design is a scientific theory that holds that many features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause. Read More ›
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Is Information in DNA “Abstract”? Physicist Randy Isaac Responds

"How can we determine whether a 10-digit number is a random number or a specified telephone number to call your mother?" Read More ›
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Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”

A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Read More ›
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ID Literature and the Great Evolutionary Firewall

If you’re going to engage people on the topic of intelligent design publications, don’t let them force two false assumptions on you. Read More ›
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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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Life Exponential: Life Exhibits Intelligent Design at Many Levels

Complexity (such as we see in a pile of autumn leaves) can arise spontaneously from unguided natural processes, but complex specified information cannot. Read More ›
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The Law of Zero Magic

The mystique of evolutionism is the idea that natural selection explains everything. In fact, natural selection itself explains nothing. Read More ›
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The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence – An Exercise in Intelligent Design

Let’s turn the SETI telescope around. Would extraterrestrials be justified in inferring ID from patterns on the earth? Read More ›

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