Tag: No Free Lunch

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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
Tagged
, 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 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 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
David Coppedge

Date
January 27, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aliens, astrophysicists, Carole Mundell, chance, extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrials, false negatives, false positives, intelligent actors, intelligent design, Live Science, media, natural law., No Free Lunch, Ohio State University, Paul Sutter, radio signals, space, space aliens, Stonehenge, The Conversation, William Dembski}

When Should Mysterious Signals from Space Be Attributed to Alien Intelligence?

_{David Coppedge
January 27, 2026

Astronomy, Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design advocates agree that you don’t infer intelligence until there is sufficient reason to reject chance and natural law. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, atheism, Brian Miller, Brown University, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, citation bluffing, Darwin Day, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Dave Farina, Debating Design, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, Ernst Mayr, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Guillermo Gonzalez, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Nature’s Destiny, No Free Lunch, Oxford University, Oxford University Press, Professor Dave, proteins, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Signature in the Cell, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Edge of Evolution, The Privileged Planet, Thomas Nagel, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

No. 2 Story of 2024: Darwinists Devolve

_{John G. West
December 31, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, chance, Charles Thaxton, earthquakes, evolution, Francis Crick, Illustra Media, intelligence, intelligent design, No Free Lunch, primordial soup, proteins, Roger Olsen, sequence hypothesis, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, wind, Wistar Institute}

Protein Designers Explore Sequence Space

_{David Coppedge
November 20, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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They may call it evolution, but it is all about intelligent design and artificial selection, not Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, chromosomes, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, DNA, eukaryotes, evolution, foresight, genes, genetic code, intelligent design, Michael Behe, multicellularity, natural selection, No Free Lunch, Peter Corning, proteins, random variation, RNA, sexual reproduction, synergy, The Design Inference, turtles, William A. Dembski}

Synergies All the Way Down

_{Daniel Witt
April 10, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic specified complexity, cars, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Jay Richards, Kolmogorov information, languages, No Free Lunch, probabilistic resources, Robert J. Marks II, royal flush, Shannon information, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure

_{William A. Dembski
February 29, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The most important take away here is that specified complexity makes Shannon information and Kolmogorov information commensurable. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Claude Shannon, coin toss, complexity, error correction, improbability, information, information theory, Kolmogorov information, No Free Lunch, pattern, randomness, Shannon information, specification, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference}

Shannon and Kolmogorov Information

_{William A. Dembski
February 28, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There’s a deep connection between probability and complexity. This connection is made clear in Shannon’s theory of information. Read More ›