Tag: improbability

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 15, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alphabet, amino acids, beta lactamase, Brandeis University, cells, chaperones, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Douglas Axe, E. coli, enzymes, Gemini, genome, HeliScrew4, helix, improbability, indels, Karl Popper, peptides, PNAS, polypeptides, promissory materialism, protocell, random letters, randomness, razor wire, selective pressure, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, supersecondary structure, tandem repeats, The Self and Its Brain, UC San Francisco}

Testing the Creativity of Randomness

_{David Coppedge
September 15, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The evolutionary part of this paper relies on wishful thinking. What “could” or “might” happen occurs only in their evolutionary imaginations. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
September 14, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __featured1, background noise, design detection, extraterrestrial intelligence, improbability, intelligent aliens, Jerry Ehman, Ohio State University, outer space, researchers, SETI, standard deviations, William Dembski, Wow! signal}

The Wow! Signal and a Project in Design Detection

_{Winston Ewert
September 14, 2026

Intelligent Design, Physics

3}

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence searches through evidence from outer space in the hopes of finding something that indicates intelligent ET life. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", agency, Aristotle, biologists, Charles Darwin, chemistry, complexity, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, flowers, function, G. H. Lewes, ime's Second Arrow, improbability, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, language, Life Itself, machines, materialists, mechanism, metaphysics, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, Michael Wong, natural selection, naturalism, organisms, physics, probability, purpose, RNA, Robert Hazen, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified irreducible complexity, telos, Thomas Jefferson, Time's Second Arrow}

Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological systems, building blocks, designed reality, finite universe, ID the Future, improbability, information, irreducible intelligence, Law of Conservation of Information, materialist process, mathematicians, matter, philosophers, podcast, probability amplifier, selection process, William Dembski}

Irreducible Intelligence: The Ultimate Origin of Biological Information

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

The more an environment is tuned to amplify probability, the more improbable that environment becomes, requiring further explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 14, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Bayesian inference, Bayesian reasoning, causal ramification, chance, cosmic design, fine-tuning, fine-tuning arguments, improbability, intelligent design, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, King’s College London, multiverse, observation biases, philosophy, physical laws, physicists, physics, probability, Roberto Fumagalli, theism, universe}

New Peer-Reviewed Paper Defends Cosmic Fine-Tuning Argument

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 14, 2026

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

11}

Fumagalli does not in the end state whether he himself lands on the multiverse hypothesis, cosmic design, or unknown physics as the best explanation. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Claude Shannon, coin toss, complexity, error correction, improbability, information, information theory, Kolmogorov information, No Free Lunch, pattern, randomness, Shannon information, specification, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference}

Shannon and Kolmogorov Information

_{William A. Dembski
February 28, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

There’s a deep connection between probability and complexity. This connection is made clear in Shannon’s theory of information. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, complexity, Dave Farina, English, improbability, information theory, intuition, Mount Rushmore, poetry, poker, probability, Professor Dave, royal flush, specification, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), Star Wars, The Design Inference, Theodore Roosevelt}

Intuitive Specified Complexity: A User-Friendly Account

_{William A. Dembski
February 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

At this early stage in the discussion, however, it seems wise to lay out specified complexity in a convenient non-technical way. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, coincidence, deception, Design Inference, Gregor Mendel, honesty, improbability, New York Times, peas, plagiarism, probability, protocols, specification, UC San Diego}

Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 28, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Physical Sciences

8}

What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolutionary biologists, improbability, information, information theory, James Tour, natural selection, Rice University, Shannon information, shell game, specified information, The Design Inference, The Information Enigma, William A. Dembski}

How Information Runs the Show in Biology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 5, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Specified information — when improbability meets a recognizable pattern — demands explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
June 28, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, convergence, Darwinians, dinosaurs, DNA, explanatory filter, Explore Evolution, improbability, intelligence, mutations, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, Paul Nelson, Ralph Seelke, sauropods, Scott Minnich, specification, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski, worldview}

Long Necks in Sauropod Dinosaurs — By Neo-Darwinism or Intelligent Design?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
June 28, 2023

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The origin of the ingeniously intricate long necks in sauropod dinosaurs has been postulated to have arisen more than 35 times independently. Read More ›