Tag: design filter

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ant navigation, archaeology, barnacle waterproof glue, Biomimetics, blowholes, butterfly colors, California, cryptology, crystallography, Death Valley, design filter, fine-tuning, forensic science, geomimetics, geophysics, geysers, ice, ice sheets, ID in Action, intelligent design, Jonathan Boreyko, lightning, magnets, mantis shrimp hammers, Oklo reactor, optimization, Racetrack Playa, Racetrack Valley, rocks, sailing stones, Smithsonian Magazine, snowflakes, spider webs, Virginia Tech, volcanoes}

Is Geomimetics an Intelligent Design Science? Well, Yes and No

_{David Coppedge
August 19, 2025

Environment & Climate, Geology, Intelligent Design

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Biomimetics, the imitation of nature’s designs, clearly qualifies as an ID science. What about “geomimetics” — the imitation of geophysics? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 28, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, anthropologists, archaeologists, camelids, design detection, design filter, geoglyphs, graffiti, historians, history, humanoids, intelligent design, Leiden University, New Scientist, Peru, PNAS, The New Scientist, UNESCO}

Using AI to Discover Intelligent Design

_{David Coppedge
October 28, 2024

Archaeology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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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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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 3, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, California, Cambridge University Press, conservation, design filter, endangered species, Kenneth Miller, Michael Shellenberger, nature, Nature (journal), Patrick Brown, politically incorrect, scientific materialism, self-censorship, specification, The Design Inference, wildfires, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

“Move Along, Nothing to See Here”: What Happens When You Challenge a Dominant Narrative

_{Jonathan Witt
June 3, 2024

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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William Dembski no longer has to be coy about the challenge his design filter poses for modern evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Claudine Gay, context, design filter, Design Inference, genocide, Harvard University, intelligent design, mathematician, philosophers, plagiarism, student conduct, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Harvard President Is Out Thanks to Design Filter

_{David Klinghoffer
January 3, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

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William Dembski explains in an excellent new podcast interview with Christopher Sernaque. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, Animal Algorithms, astrobiology, atheism, Brian Koberlein, convergent evolution, crop circles, design filter, Eric Cassell, evolution, hexagons, intelligent design, intuition, PLOS Biology, pulsars, radio signals, Return of the God Hypothesis, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, SETI, The Conversation, UAPs, UC Berkeley, UFOlogy, UFOs, unidentified anomalous phenomena, Utah}

In Explanations Reported by Mainstream Science, Design Inference Continues to Factor

_{David Coppedge
July 31, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Speaking of regularly spaced circles, I observed something similar in southern Utah from a helicopter in 2019 (see the photo at the top). Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 7, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atoms, basalt lava glass, beauty, bees, Casey Luskin, Cassini mission, design filter, Giant’s Causeway, Grand Canyon, hexagons, intelligence, intelligent design, Ireland, Jupiter, natural laws, Physical Review Letters, physicists, Saturn, snowflakes, Voyager spacecraft, William A. Dembski}

Applying the Design Filter to Hexagons

_{David Coppedge
July 7, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

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The hexagon on Saturn performs no function. Columnar basalt doesn’t say anything. Snowflakes don’t carry a message. They are mere emergent phenomena. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 29, 2022

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Argument from Reason, chimpanzees, crows, design filter, Design Inference, designer, fairy circles, geoglyphs, intelligent design, John West, Jordan, Live Science, Middle East, Namibia, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Syria, World War I}

Design Inference: Stone Structures Were Intelligently Arranged, Though We Don’t Know by Whom

_{David Coppedge
March 29, 2022

Archaeology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There are hundreds of these structures. They extend over much of the Middle East: Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Read More ›

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Date
May 6, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archaea, ATP synthase, bacteria, bacterial flagella, bats, bombs, bugs, cryo-electron microscopy, design filter, eukaryotes, Germany, guns, intelligent design, Nature Communications, Scott Minnich, T3SS, type III secretion system, Unlocking the Mystery of Life}

Closer Look at the T3SS Reveals Design

_{Science and Culture
May 6, 2021

Intelligent Design

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If one visualizes the recoil action of large guns on ships as they fire, that is perhaps what the EA (export apparatus) is doing for the T3SS. Read More ›

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Date
January 15, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 'Oumuamua, aliens, astronomer, astrophysicist, Avi Loeb, design detection, design filter, explanatory filter, extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrials, Harvard University, intelligent design, Live Science, Michael Egnor, podcast, solar system, William A. Dembski}

Avi Loeb: “Nature Does Not Produce Such Things”

_{Science and Culture
January 15, 2021

Physical Sciences

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Loeb describes his journey to a radical position on the strange interstellar visitor that’s been dubbed 'Oumuamua. Read More ›

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Date
March 13, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, bacteria, bioengineering, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, corn, Craig Venter, CRISPR-Cas9, design filter, Design Inference, DNA, Dogs, Douglas Axe, ETH Zurich, Galápagos Islands, genotype, intelligent design, maize, Mars rover, natural, Nature (journal), No Free Lunch, Paul Nelson, phenotype, Roger Olsen, Technion, The Design Revolution, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski, wolves}

Blurring the Line Between Natural and Artificial

_{Science and Culture
March 13, 2020

Intelligent Design

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As technology mimics nature, at what point might future investigators be unsure about natural versus intelligent causes? Read More ›