Tag: parsimony

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Amazon, astronomer, beavers, biochemists, biology, chance, Easter Island, elements, evolution, gods, helium, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, iron picks, Laurence Moran, life, necessity, New York City, Norman Lockyer, Occam’s razor, On the Origin of Species, parsimony, skyscraper, smartphones, special creation, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, stone hammers, Stonehenge, will}

How Did the Designer Do It?

_{Daniel Witt
July 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bret Weinstein, Darwinism, designer, epigenetic information, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionists, Günter Bechly, immaterial genome, intelligent design, Joe Rogan, morphological change, natural selection, parsimony, Platonists, random mutation, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer, tiger, USAID}

Bret Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Podcast: Darwinism Is “Broken,” Intelligent Design Is “Catching Up”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Dr. Weinstein alludes to another Darwinian mechanism operating on top of the standard one of random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biosphere, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon-based life, Charles Tanford, ecosystem, electronegativity, elegance, Freeman Dyson, George Wald, glaciers, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, Lawrence J. Henderson, Linus Pauling, metabolism, mitochondria, nitrogen, nucleus, ocean, oxygen, parsimony, primer, The Fitness of the Environment, The Wonder of Water, water}

Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2024

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

25}

In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Arachnida, arachnids, arthropods, Charles Darwin, chelicerates, common descent, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, dependency graph model, England, eurypterids, evolution, Evolution News, flagellum, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, materialism, molecular clock studies, Parioscorpio venator, parsimony, phylogeny, predictions, respiratory organs, Richard Dawkins, scorpions, spider silk, spiders, spinnerets, tiktaalik, Tree of Life, whip scorpions, Winston Ewert, Wisconsin}

Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

72}

True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, character, cladistics, cladogram, evolutionary biologists, homoplasy, Hox genes, parsimony, phylogeny, referee, University of Vienna}

The Puzzle of Hox Gene Homology — With Parsimony Taking the Hit

_{Paul Nelson
February 6, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

I am old enough to remember when, during the cladistics revolution, parsimony was the Final Referee with the Loudest Whistle. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, cells, cellulose, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, Goldilocks, humans, leaves, lignin, metallurgy, parsimony, photosynthesis, surface tension, tensile strength, tree trunks, water, wood}

Nature’s Magic and Its Breathtaking Parsimony

_{Michael Denton
August 5, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

3}

Without this ensemble of fitness in nature, there would be no wood, no fire, no metallurgy, no modern technology. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
October 25, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, 1000 Genomes Project, Adam and Eve, BIO-Complexity, bottleneck, Broad Institute, chimpanzees, Dennis Venema, effective population size, evolutionary assumptions, first couple, genetic diversity, human origin, humans, mortality, Ola Hössjer, parsimony, Peaceful Science, population size, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Steve Schaffner}

More Backstory on Our First-Couple Paper: Why Wasn’t This Done Before?

_{Ann Gauger
October 25, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

For the last forty years, population geneticists have repeatedly said that our population was never smaller than several thousand. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2018

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, Bayesian reasoning, BIO-Complexity, Brian Miller, calculations, Charles Darwin, complexity, Cornelius Hunter, creationism, data, dependency graph, entropy, evolution, fundamentalism, genes, genome, intelligent design, National Center for Biotechnology Information, parsimony, software, Thomas Bayes, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert}

The Dependency Graph Hypothesis — How It Is Inferred

_{Science and Culture
July 23, 2018

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

13}

Ewert proposes that life is best explained not by Darwin’s hypothesis of an ancestry tree, but by a modern design-inspired hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
July 20, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, accuracy, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Bayes factor, Big Data, BIO-Complexity, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, common descent, dependency graph, earth, epicycles, evolution, geocentrism, gravity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Mars, Nicolaus Copernicus, Occam's Razor, parsimony, Ptolemy, Wikipedia, Winston Ewert}

New Paper by Winston Ewert Demonstrates Superiority of Design Model

_{Cornelius Hunter
July 20, 2018

Intelligent Design, Physics

9}

Winston Ewert’s results are a Copernican Revolution moment. Read More ›