Tag: My Personal History with Information (series)

Archery woman bends bow archer target narrow

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 12, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, archer, arrow, BIO-Complexity, Biola University, Bruce L. Gordon, Church-Turing Thesis, Conservation of Information, Douglas Axe, Evangelical Philosophical Society, inequality, information theorems, intelligent design, John Bloom, Law of Conservation of Information, mathematics, My Personal History with Information (series), Robert J. Marks II, San Diego, search, The Design Inference, The Nature of Nature, Turing Machine, William A. Dembski, wind}

The Law of Conservation of Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 12, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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There are a lot of details here, and the result is nontrivial though the conservation of information inequality looks utterly elementary and straightforward. Read More ›

Cowboy in saddle horseback on ranch for western industry lifestyle concept.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 11, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Being as Communion, biological evolution, Brian Skyrms, Cambridge University Press, cancer, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, design inferences, Discovery Institute, intelligent design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, My Personal History with Information (series), new york, No Free Lunch, peer review, Rowman and Littlefield, Terence Moore, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Back in the Saddle: A Second Edition for The Design Inference

_{William A. Dembski
October 11, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The big obstacle for me came from feeling at odds with my publisher, Cambridge University Press. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 10, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
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, __featured3, Angus Menuge, Aristotle, Ashgate, Being as Communion, blueprints, Brian Krouse, Claude Shannon, engineers, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Holy Spirit, information, informational realism, language, logos, metaphysics, mind-body problem, musicians, My Personal History with Information (series), No Free Lunch, ontology, painters, Plato, Robert J. Marks II, sculptors, Templeton Foundation, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Trinitarian God}

Being as Communion: The Metaphysics of Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 10, 2026

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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"Painters create information by applying dabs of paint to canvas, sculptors by chiseling away at stone, musicians by writing notes on lined sheets of paper." Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Computations in Science Seminars, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary search, evolutionists, information, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, Leo Kadanoff, mathematicians, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Paul Nelson, slides, Third Way of Evolution, Travel, University of Chicago, Wheaton College}

My 2014 Talk at the University of Chicago

_{William A. Dembski
October 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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After it had been announced on campus, Jerry Coyne, a prominent Darwinian biologist at the University of Chicago, tried to talk Leo into disinviting me. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 8, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, active information, Amazon, Biological Information: New Perspectives, Cornell University, endogenous information, exogenous information, George Montañez, German, IEEE Transactions, intelligent design, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, John Sanford, My Personal History with Information (series), peer-reviewed literature, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Singapore, Springer, Technical University of Berlin, University of Erlangen, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, World Scientific}

Breaking into the Peer-Reviewed Engineering Literature

_{William A. Dembski
October 8, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The book had been typeset. Amazon announced it for preorder. And then, with less than six weeks to publication, anti-ID forces sprang into action. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, arrorws, Evangelical Philosophical Society, functional analysis, George Montañez, information, Jay Richards, logarithm, mathematics, measure theory, My Personal History with Information (series), natural selection, Niels Bohr Institute, No Free Lunch, phi, Philosophia Christi, quiver, replicational, Robert J. Marks II, sigma, specificational, The Design Inference, Thomas English, vector-valued integration, Winston Ewert}

Searching Large Spaces: The Mathematical Details

_{William A. Dembski
October 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Think of replicational resources as arrows in your quiver and specificational resources as targets so that hitting any of them counts as a success. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, intelligent design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 6, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 4, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic coding functions, American Scientific Affiliation, bookkeeping, Cambridge University Press, Charles Thaxton, Conservation of Information, crystals, Dembski’s Theorem, Discovery Institute, improbability, information, intelligent design, laws of nature, Leslie Orgel, mathematics, My Personal History with Information (series), No Free Lunch, Noam Chomsky, Paul Nelson, philosophers, probabilities, R. A. Fisher, Rob Koons, Roger Olsen, specified complexity, statistical inference, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, The Origins of Life, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, University of Texas, Walter Bradley, Whitworth College, William A. Dembski, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Smith}

The Evolution of Specified Complexity

_{William A. Dembski
October 4, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Wolfgang Smith’s excitement about conservation of complex specified information or specified complexity was not widely shared. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 3, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alexander Hall, Arthur Fine, Bill Wimsatt, David Hull, David Malament, design detection, divorce, doctoral studies, Douglas Axe, Edward Teller, evolution, intelligent design, J. Gresham Machen, Jonathan Wells, mathematics, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), natural theology, Northwestern University, Paul Nelson, Paul Teller, Phillip E. Johnson, philosophy, philosophy of science, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton University, probability, Sisyphus, specification, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, William Paley, Winston Ewert}

Philosophy, Theology, and an Inference to Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 3, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science

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My dissertation on the logic of conditionals came to seems like the rock of Sisyphus. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 2, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, communication, elevator pitch, epistemologists, Fred Dretske, information, Inquiry (book), intelligent design, John Archibald Wheeler, John Horgan, Logic and the Flow of Information, MIT, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalists, physical causality, possibilities, Robert Stalnaker, Scientific American, semantic content, Shannon information, Stanford University, teleology}

An Elevator Pitch About What Information Is

_{William A. Dembski
October 2, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The conception of information as ruling out possibilities allows for teleological as well as non-teleological processes to generate information. Read More ›