Tag: letters

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aquatic ape, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, Elaine Morgan, evolutionary anthropologists, iconoclasts, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Paul Nelson, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, smooth skin, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent}

Farewell to Daniel Dennett

_{William A. Dembski
April 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dennett noted that Paul Nelson and I were in the audience and would be speaking at Tufts that evening on intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aquatic ape, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, Elaine Morgan, evolutionary anthropologists, iconoclasts, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, smooth skin, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent}

Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm

_{William A. Dembski
April 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I’ve had two memorable encounters with Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, one with Dennett alone, the other with both together. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Thaxton, English, Francis Crick, information theory, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Leslie Orgel, letters, Paul Davies, Roger Olsen, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Specified Complexity Made Simple: The Historical Backdrop

_{William A. Dembski
February 26, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, artifacts, books, chemical evolution, chemical reactions, complex specified information, Ernst Mayr, genes, Hubert Yockey, humans, information, information theory, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, letters, Marcello Barbieri, molecular machines, music, numbers, photos, pixels, proteins}

Barbieri’s Dilemma: Biological Information without Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 15, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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The problem is obvious: Information is by its nature immaterial. It is measured in bits, not kilograms or joules. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 31, 2022

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, evolution, fitness function, Hamlet, information, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Stuart Mill, letters, logic, natural selection, polynucleotides, replicase, replication, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), selection, simplicity, Sol Spiegelman, spaces, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, unwashed middle, variation, William Shakespeare}

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

_{William A. Dembski
August 31, 2022

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 4, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, author, Bible, biological information, books, carvings, clay, Darwinists, Eric Holloway, evolution, information, intelligent design, letters, lightning, Mind Matters, nature, punctuation, toothpicks}

Is Information a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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"Consider the toothpicks. If we drop them on the ground and let them scatter randomly, they will have no shape and will thus be uninformative." Read More ›

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Date
March 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, analogy, architecture, Boltzmann brain, codons, Darwinian evolution, entropy, Eugene Koonin, hopeful monster, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, letters, Michael Behe, multicellularity, multiverse, natural selection, nucleotides, PNAS, proteome, semantic information, The Logic of Chance, words}

Proteome Is Analogous to Language

_{Evolution News
March 14, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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A paper likens the proteome to a language with a “quasi-universal grammar” possessing the minimum complexity necessary to function as a cell. Read More ›