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Information and Life’s Origin — A Retrospective View

Unguided natural processes, according to the generalized Second Law, cannot systematically increase the information content of a closed system over time. Read More ›
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Photo: Stephen Meyer and Charles Thaxton, by Chris Morgan.

From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton

It is my privilege and honor to recommend this fascinating autobiography — which is also perhaps the least I can do to repay a friend and mentor. Read More ›
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Here’s a New Evolutionary Theory Based on Information

Information follows different rules from matter and energy, which might change the way we see evolution. Read More ›
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Science Stopper? Intelligent Design as a Fruitful Scientific Paradigm

When critics claim that research is not permitted to detect design because that would stop science, it is they who hold science back. Read More ›
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Study Evolution’s Information Problem with Engineer Robert Marks — and Save Over 50 Percent!

How does information theory challenge Darwinian evolution? And how can the methods of probability be used to assess key evolutionary claims? Read More ›
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Photo: Winston Ewert teaching at the Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design.

Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Genesis

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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“Lifelikeness” Without Intelligent Design? Brian Miller Responds to Jeremy England

Dr. England has a poetic and ingenious article reflecting on God’s commissioning of Moses to lead the Jews out from Egypt. Read More ›
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Mistakes Our Critics Make: Information Theory

Researchers felt compelled to describe biological information using such phrases as “coding schemes,” “carries meaning,” “core program,” and “hierarchical rules (grammar).” Read More ›
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Photo: Claude Shannon, by DobriZheglov [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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

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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