Tag: functional specificity

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, analogy, atheism, Bible, biological information, Closer to Truth, complexity, DNA, dogmatism, Douglas Adams, functional specificity, God of the philosophers, improbability, information, intelligent design, Matt Dillahunty, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, New York University, Piers Morgan, Richard Dawkins, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Stephen Meyer, The Telegraph, theists, Thomas Nagel, universe}

Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2026

Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, biology, causal adequacy, creative intelligence, croissants, David Hume, DNA, fine-tuning, functional specificity, God Hypothesis, God of the gaps, hieroglyphics, improbability, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, J. P. Moreland, Kentucky Derby, living systems, materialistic explanations, Michael Shermer, natural world, parsimony, philosophy, physics, Pierre-Simon Laplace, placeholder, postulations, quantum cosmology, racehorse, religious scientists, scientific advance, scribe of the gaps, Seattle Slew II, specified information, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, universe, vera causa, William Lane Craig}

Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Critics of intelligent design or science-based theistic arguments often cite Isaac Newton as the prime example of a scientist who made this blunder. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __cedited, Alexander Oparin, biological information, biologists, chance, chemical evolution, Claude Shannon, complexity, DNA, functional specificity, intelligent design, living cells, natural selection, RNA, specification, specified complexity}

Evidence of Intelligent Design in the Origin of Life

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 3, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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As the pioneering chemical evolutionary theorist Alexander Oparin put it, “The problem of the nature of life and the problem of its origin have become inseparable.” Read More ›

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post

Date
January 30, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, algorithmic specified complexity, BIO-Complexity, bioinformatics, functional specificity, George D. Montañez, Robert Hazen, Robert J. Marks II, specified complexity, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Unifying Specified Complexity: Rediscovering Ancient Technology

_{Science & Culture
January 30, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Returning to your winter retreat, mentioned in the last post, the symbols you discovered remain on your mind. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 9, 2017

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, analogy, Bill Gates, biological information, complexity, computer program, David Hume, DNA, functional specificity, ID's Top Six, intelligent design, Signature in the Cell}

ID’s Top Six — The Origin of Information in DNA and the Origin of Life

_{Casey Luskin
November 9, 2017

Biology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

7}

The laws of the universe are necessary for life to exist. But they aren’t sufficient to explain how life arose. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 18, 2016

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract concepts, animal communication, animal languages, bird vocalizations, complex structures, complexity, designators, finches, functional complexity, functional specificity, grammar, human language, language, metaphysical, Nature, signal}

Are Birdsongs Language?

_{Michael Egnor
July 18, 2016

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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Atheist mathematician Jeff Shallit insists that animals have language. Read More ›