Tag: Mount Rushmore

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, Apologetics Profile, Big Bang, Casey Luskin, chemistry, Discovery Institute Academy, education, evolution, ID the Future, Kristin Marais, Mount Rainier, Mount Rushmore, neo-Darwinian evolution, origin of life, origin of the universe, podcast, students, teachers, The Daily Wire, universe}

Exploring Intelligent Design: A Conversation with Casey Luskin and Kristin Marais

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 28, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Does intelligent design have a better answer for the origin of the universe and the origin of life than the standard neo-Darwinian explanation? Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
December 3, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, ambient temperature, amino acids, bones, breast milk, butterflies, campfire, Carl Jung, clouds, coincidences, Discovery Institute, Doctor's Diary (series), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, enzyme, femur, Florence, glucose, Harvest House, humerus, ice, iron, Michael Denton, moths, Mount Rushmore, nucleotide, Oregon, oxygen, Pacific Northwest, potassium, sodium, synchronicity, The Design Inference, vitamin B12, water, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski}

Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence

_{Geoffrey Simmons
December 3, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Medicine

11}

I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, beta-lactamase, calculations, cars, Design Inference, Douglas Axe, formalism, Jack Szostak, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, Mount Rushmore, probability, protein folds, Shannon information, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Specified Complexity and a Tale of Ten Malibus

_{William A. Dembski
March 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

The validity of these estimates and the degree to which they can be refined can be disputed. But the underlying formalism of specified complexity is rock solid. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, birthdays, complexity, Dark Helmet, Darth Vader, Dave Farina, English, George Washington, improbability, information theory, intuition, Luke Skywalker, Mount Rushmore, poetry, poker, probability, Professor Dave, royal flush, Spaceballs, specification, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), Star Wars, The Design Inference, The Empire Strikes Back, 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 ›

Mount Rushmore

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 9, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Amazonia, beavers, fairy circles, forests, Gutzon Borglum, Harvard University, Jackson Pollock, LIDAR, Mount Rushmore, New Scientist, New York University, North Africa, PNAS, Rube Goldberg, Science (journal), The Design Inference, Tom Metcalfe, University of Portsmouth, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Ahead of New Book Edition, Geoglyphs and Natural Features Test Dembski’s Design Inference

_{David Coppedge
November 9, 2023

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

Designed features can hide in plain sight. A closer look can sometimes reveal the intentional acts of a mind. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 3, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Townes, complex specified information, complexity, DNA, human agents, information, intelligence, intelligent causes, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, machines, molecular machines, Mount Rainier, Mount Rushmore, nature, Nobel laureates, Pacific Northwest, poker, programming, proteins, royal flush, scientific method, South Dakota, U.S. Presidents, volcano}

What Is Intelligent Design and How Should We Defend It?

_{Casey Luskin
December 3, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Intelligent design is a scientific theory that holds that many features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
October 28, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Cambrian Explosion, carbon, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, Eric Metaxas, Garden of Eden, Is Atheism Dead?, Karl Marx, Mount Rushmore, multiverse, Narnia, New Atheists, oxygen, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Aquinas}

Reasons to Believe: Eric Metaxas’s Powerful New Book, Is Atheism Dead?

_{John Zmirak
October 28, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

6}

Eric doesn’t just know the relevant books, but he knows most of the living authors, whose findings strip away the accumulated varnish of atheist materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 23, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic specified complexity, aliens, American history, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute Dallas, humanoids, humans, images, information, Mount Rushmore, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Measuring Mount Rushmore

_{Jonathan Witt
January 23, 2021

Intelligent Design

1}

A non-humanoid gelatinous alien might assign no meaning to the faces on Mount Rushmore if the alien had never seen a humanoid. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 9, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic specified complexity, evolutionary informatics, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, information theory, Mount Fuji, Mount Rushmore, podcast, poker, Robert J. Marks II, snowflakes, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Genesis

_{Jonathan Witt
January 9, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

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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Date
October 22, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Darwinism, deception, drugs, Forensics, gravity, humans, Jerry Coyne, lying, Mount Rushmore, Nicholas Caputo, postmodernism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, torture, University of Portsmouth, Why Evolution Is True, William A. Dembski}

Design Filter Is Best Bet for Finding Liars

_{Science and Culture
October 22, 2020

Intelligent Design

8}

Not all intelligent design is benevolent. Design can deceive. Can ID techniques filter the true from the false? Read More ›