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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, amino acids, biological information, critics, DNA, evolutionary processes, genetic code, information theory, physicists, proteins, Randy Isaac, RNA, semantic information, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, William Shakespeare}

Mistakes Our Critics Make: Information Theory

_{Brian Miller
July 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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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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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 & 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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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 15, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, artificial intelligence, beauty, biological information, Children of Light, computers, creativity, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, elegance, George Gilder, information, information theory, intelligent design, Life After Google, machines, Michael Denton, surprise}

Denton, Gilder: The Biology of Surprise

_{David Klinghoffer
October 15, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism is just a blunt recipe, an algorithm, and it can only select what is immediately functional. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 4, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, Claude Shannon, creativity, Discovery Institute, economics, George Gilder, Google, information theory, Karl Marx, knowledge, machines, money, Silicon Valley, Wall Street Journal, William Blake}

Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision

_{David Klinghoffer
September 4, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

4}

It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge Read More ›

Chichen Itza Osservatorio — Observatory temple, Chichén Itzá

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Date
November 4, 2016

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Cultural Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, Anthropic Principle, black holes, closed-mindedness, information theory, limits of science, materialism, Origin, SETI, string theory, theoretical physics, viewpoint diversity}

How Consensus Can Blind Science

_{Science & Culture
November 4, 2016

Astronomy, Cosmology, Cultural Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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Visiting a Mayan temple, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb had a revelation. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
September 23, 2016

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, evolutionary informatics, hallucinations, Hamlet, information theory, Richard Dawkins, simulations, The Blind Watchmaker, thought experiment, Weasel program, William Shakespeare}

Richard Dawkins’s Weasel Program Is Bad in Ways You Never Dreamed

_{Jonathan Witt
September 23, 2016

Arts, Bioethics, Computational Sciences, Evolution

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His reductive approach causes him to miss a delicious irony. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 8, 2016

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __tedited, biochemistry, biologic institute, disguised religion, ID research program, information theory, paradigm shift}

William Dembski on the “Science vs. Science” Debate, the “Two Strands” in ID Research, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
September 8, 2016

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

4}

I doubt anyone was "holding his breath" waiting for the Berlin Wall to fall. Yet it did. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 15, 2016

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __tedited, Christian colleges, circular reasoning, controversy, cryptography, design detection, Dover trial, empirical evidence, forensic science, hype, inference, information theory, mind, professors, science media, science reporting, scientific advance}

Is the Market for Articles that Ask “Is Intelligent Design Dead?” Dead?

_{David Klinghoffer
April 15, 2016

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

5}

Evidently not, because atheists and theistic evolutionists keep pumping them out, as they've done for ten years now since the Dover decision. Read More ›

Digital media browsing on computer screen, hands typing on keyboard, vibrant thumbnails displayed, modern workspace, technology

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 29, 2015

Categories
Computational Sciences
Tagged
, __nedited, algorithmic specified complexity, computer vision, design filter, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, information theory, pattern, peer review, redundancy, Robert J. Marks, Robert J. Marks II, science, specified complexity, William A. Dembski}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Successfully Measures Specified Complexity in Computer Images

_{Casey Luskin
December 29, 2015

Computational Sciences

4}

"Is information being created when we snap a picture of Niagara Falls?" Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 15, 2011

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __nedited, BioLogos Foundation, cells, Darrel Falk, first life, Granville Sewell, information theory, plagiarism, Signature in the Cell, software analogy, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution}

At BioLogos, Still Critiquing the Book Steve Meyer Didn’t Write

_{David Klinghoffer
September 15, 2011

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

7}

From occasionally perusing the BioLogos website, I've come to realize that talk about holiness and humility and love often accompanies some kind of innuendo or slur. Read More ›