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Using AI to Discover Intelligent Design

Hundreds of faint archaeological geoglyphs were found by training AI on aerial photographs of the Nazca plain in Peru. Read More ›
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Two Measures of Intelligent Design’s Advance: Peer-Reviewed Publications and ID 3.0

It’s a talking point for evolutionists that in the past two decades, intelligent design has stalled. Hardly! Read More ›
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Photo: Panel discussion at the Summer Seminar, by Nathan Jacobson.

The 2024 Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design Could Be the Highlight of Your Year! 

There’s an eye-opening trend in the applicant pool that we’ve observed over the past few years — it’s an exciting trend but it has an upside and a downside. Read More ›
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To Dance at Two Weddings: Rope Kojonen’s Evolutionary Quest

According to a proverb, you can’t dance at two weddings at the same time. Dr. Kojonen believes that you can. Read More ›
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Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”

On Rope Kojonen's model, she no longer has grounds to trust her common-sense intuition of the design of the eagle’s eye. Read More ›
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Design: A Scientific Proxy for Intelligence

The Dead Sea Scrolls are an example of a design artifact for which intelligence is inferred as the source. Read More ›
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Peer-Reviewed Paper by Discovery Institute Staff Evaluates Synthesis of “Design and Evolution” 

We regard Kojonen’s model as nuanced, erudite, and fair-minded. It is a model of fine scholarship and deserves serious attention. Read More ›
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Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 6872, by NASA/ESO/JPL-Caltech/DSS.

Watch: Here Are Several Minutes of Design-Detection Brainstorming with Lex Fridman

I’ve never heard such a concise account of the principal methodological difficulties of inferring an unconstrained intelligence as a TESTABLE cause. Read More ›
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SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds

SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial. Read More ›
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Did Chess Ace Hans Niemann Cheat? A Design Detection Poser

At first glance the problem might seem far removed from the design detecting rules William Dembski laid out in his Cambridge University Press monograph. Read More ›

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