Tag: cryptography

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, AI Overview, archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, Forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, intelligent design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine}

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

36}

Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, barcoding, biomolecules, building blocks, Colorado State University, cryptography, cryptology, Darwinism, DNA, Douglas Axe, information, Intelligent Design in Action, junk DNA, pseudogenes, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Scientist, uncertainty, Undeniable (book), William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Intelligent Design in Action: DNA Cryptography

_{David Coppedge
February 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Cryptography itself is an example of ID in action within the sciences. How much more when it involves coded genetic information? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metascience
Science Education
Tagged
, archeology, biological origins, cryptography, data integrity, data science, Design Inference, Forensics, information, intelligent design, Nature (journal), physicists, Piltdown Man, plagiarism, probabilities, probability, randomness, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, specification, Stanford University, University of Rochester, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Leveraging the Design Inference for Effectively Falsifying Data

_{William A. Dembski
April 17, 2024

Intelligent Design, Metascience, Science Education

15}

The academy raises generation after generation of inept data falsifiers who embrace the foolish naiveté that their shenanigans are immune to discovery. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, Cambridge University Press, coin toss, cryptography, Darwinists, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Elliott Sober, evolution, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Hamlet, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, monograph, plagiarism, S. Joshua Swamidass, specified complexity, statistics, The Design Inference, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, University of Chicago, William Shakespeare, Winston Ewert}

The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs

_{William A. Dembski
June 17, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
March 25, 2022

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, complexity, cryptography, design detection, DNA, probability, Rosetta Stone, scientific method, Signature in the Cell, specification, The Design Inference, What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design? (series), William A. Dembski}

The Logic of Design Detection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 25, 2022

Archaeology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Rational agents often detect the prior activity of other designing minds by the character of the effects they leave behind. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
June 16, 2021

Categories
Archaeology
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, crime, cryptography, inference, intelligent design, logic, medicine, paleoanthropology, William A. Dembski}

What Got My Attention about Intelligent Design

_{Paul Nelson
June 16, 2021

Archaeology, Biology, Intelligent Design

1}

Bill Dembski pointed out that design detection, far from being an esoteric inference, lay in fact at the center of many normal human inquiries and activities. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 31, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cryptography, Eric Holloway, information theory, intelligent design, Robert Crowther, specification, William A. Dembski}

Answering Critiques of Specification in William Dembski’s Design Filter

_{Science & Culture
August 31, 2020

Intelligent Design

1}

William Dembski accurately formalized a filter we use so often that we’re like fish in the sea. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 1, 2019

Categories
Archaeology
Astronomy
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, bacterium, cryptography, DNA, intelligent design, molecular genetics, organisms, quantum mechanics, SETI, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

What Is Intelligent Design? A Thomistic Perspective

_{Michael Egnor
March 1, 2019

Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

5}

What is it, metaphysically one might say, that distinguishes design in the ID sense from ubiquitous teleological design, in a Thomistic sense? Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 8, 2017

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, antibodies, antigens, bias, cryptography, evolution, faith, Forensics, fossil record, Günter Bechly, Immune System, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, materialism, metanarrative, mutations, religion, Richard Dawkins, scientists, SETI}

The Materialist Narrative and the Power of Bias

_{Brian Miller
December 8, 2017

Archaeology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

5}

Scientists in Western cultures have been trained to see the world through a materialist metanarrative where the only acting players are matter and energy. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 15, 2016

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __tedited, Christian colleges, circular reasoning, controversy, cryptography, design detection, Dover trial, empirical evidence, forensic science, hype, inference, information theory, mind, professors, science media, science reporting, scientific advance}

Is the Market for Articles that Ask “Is Intelligent Design Dead?” Dead?

_{David Klinghoffer
April 15, 2016

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

5}

Evidently not, because atheists and theistic evolutionists keep pumping them out, as they've done for ten years now since the Dover decision. Read More ›