Tag: Evolutionary Informatics Lab

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic specified complexity, cars, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Jay Richards, Kolmogorov information, languages, No Free Lunch, probabilistic resources, Robert J. Marks II, royal flush, Shannon information, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure

_{William A. Dembski
February 29, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The most important take away here is that specified complexity makes Shannon information and Kolmogorov information commensurable. Read More ›

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Date
November 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambridge University Press, Eric Anderson, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, mathematician, philosophers, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

William Dembski Offers an Updated Edition of an Intelligent Design Classic

_{Science and Culture
November 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Dembski says he stands by that work and his early contributions to intelligent design theory, but adds that he has learned a lot more in the intervening years. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial life, avida, Conservation of Information, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Hamlet, information, intelligence, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Peter Medawar, Santa Fe Institute, The Blind Watchmaker, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William Shakespeare}

Conservation of Information — The Idea

_{William A. Dembski
June 30, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef. Read More ›

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Date
January 20, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", algorithmic specified complexity, birth, cells, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, death, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, games, ID the Future, peer-reviewed literature, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski}

Algorithmic Specified Complexity: The Game of Life

_{Science and Culture
January 20, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Hobbyists have designed highly complex patterns using John Conway’s simple rules of birth, death, and survival. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 9, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic specified complexity, evolutionary informatics, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, information theory, Mount Rushmore, podcast, poker, Robert J. Marks II, snowflakes, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Genesis

_{Jonathan Witt
January 9, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Winston Ewert discusses the mathematical foundation for why we know Mount Rushmore is designed in a way that Mount Fuji isn’t. Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Being as Communion, blind search, Brian Miller, causation, Claude Shannon, Conservation of Information, David Snoke, David Wolpert, entropy, Eric Anderson, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Great Barrier Reef, information, information theory, Interface Focus, materialism, Michael Keas, No Free Lunch theorems, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Royal Society, Santa Fe Institute, semantic information, Shannon information, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski}

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

_{Science and Culture
December 10, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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

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Date
July 24, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, BIO-Complexity, biologic institute, Charles Darwin, dependency graph, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, evolutionists, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, genera, genetic data, humans, hybridization, intelligent design, Metazoa, Neanderthals, Oregon State University, scientific community, software, species, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert, zebrafish}

Response to a Critic: But What About Undirected Graphs?

_{Science and Culture
July 24, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

A dependency graph is not any old ad hoc hypothesis. It was posited because it is something that we observe in software engineering. Read More ›

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post

Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 16, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, avida, computer simulation, Darwinists, education, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, intelligent design, Robert J. Marks II, software, students, teacher, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Education or Obfuscation? Avida in Science Class

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 16, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

You might think teaching about evolution in public schools is already about as misleading as it can be. Then, you find, it gets worse. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 9, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, active information, biomolecules, Carl Zimmer, Douglas Axe, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, intelligent agents, intelligent design, natural selection, protein evolution, search, University of Washington}

On Protein Design, Don’t Be Fooled by Biochemist David Baker’s Claim

_{Science and Culture
January 9, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If designing proteins is difficult for us, it is great big wall for random bumbly evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
April 18, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, education, evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Robert J. Marks II, science standards, TEKS, Texas}

In the Dallas Morning News, Senior Scientist Weighs In on Texas Science Standards

_{Sarah Chaffee
April 18, 2017

Evolution, Science Education, Science Reporting

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In an op-ed, Robert Marks of the Evolutionary Informatics Lab and Baylor University endorses objective standards on evolution. Read More ›