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Beowulf
Photo: Old English letters specifying the first sentences of Beowulf.

Specified Complexity Made Simple: The Historical Backdrop

What happened to change the fortunes of specified complexity in the mainstream scientific community? The intelligent design movement happened. Read More ›
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irreducible complexity
Image: Bacterial flagellar motor, from Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media.

Uncommon Descent — A Farewell and Remembrance

I didn’t know what to expect from the blog when it started, but it quickly developed a following that was gratifying to see. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: An Appeal to Sanity

I’ll close with a story. My wife used to set up psychiatric units across the U.S. Read More ›
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Photo: A hawk's eye, by abrinsky via Flickr (cropped).

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Probability Theory Is Irrelevant

If you deny that probabilities apply to a physical process, you’ve abjured science — you no longer have a scientific theory. Read More ›
leaf hopper
Photo: A leaf hopper, by Cowli33, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds

Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper. Read More ›
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Photo: METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL, by loren chapman, via Flickr (cropped).

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution. Read More ›
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: More Guidance on Reading Jason Rosenhouse

So much in Rosenhouse’s book is careless, giving no indication that he has carefully studied and adequately comprehended my work or that of my colleagues. Read More ›
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Rosenhouse Roundup

Jason Rosenhouse wrote an anti-ID book for Cambridge U. Press that our colleague, his fellow mathematician William Dembski, reviewed. Read More ›
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Photo: William Dembski, via Discovery Institute.

Invitation to Jason Rosenhouse: Respond to Dembski

Nothing is more clarifying than reasoned argument, as Professor Rosenhouse appears to agree in his book. Now let’s find out what he will say. Read More ›

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