Tag: patterns

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 26, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, alphabet soup, Canceled Science, creationists, Douglas Axe, earth, evolutionists, functional complexity, generalized second law of thermodynamics, information, intelligence, intelligent beings, intelligent design, James Tour, matter, Michael Behe, micro-needle, molecular structures, natural processes, New Generalized Second Law, Origins and Destiny, particles, patterns, physicists, physics, Robert Gange, spoon, star, sun}

Foundational Evidence for Design: The Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics

_{Eric Hedin
February 26, 2026

Intelligent Design, Physics

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For almost the last 40 years, I have understood the truth of Gange's statement based on its foundation in well-established laws of physics. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, AI Overview, archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, Forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, intelligent design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine}

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 10, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, analogy, anthropologists, biology, compartmentalization, defining science, Forensics, geologists, geology, gravity, integration, intelligent design, intelligent designer, methodological pluralism, methodology, natural laws, naturalistic explanations, open-mindedness, patterns, physical world, predictions, psychologists, psychology, real world, science}

Are Scientists Allowed to Consider Unscientific Explanations?

_{Daniel Witt
July 10, 2025

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

7}

Let’s consider a narrower field. Geology, as everyone knows, is concerned with the natural processes that act upon the earth. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artifacts, Bill Gates, chance, charity, events, intelligent design, logic, natural processes, natural selection, patterns, Princeton University, probability, proteins, Robert J. Marks II, Sergiu Klainerman, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Dembski Won the Argument with His Critics; New Edition of The Design Inference Shows How

_{Brian Miller
November 16, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The expanded edition represents the culmination of decades of thought. Esteemed Princeton University mathematician Sergiu Klainerman has welcomed the book. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 30, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abduction, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, CIA, computers, digits, Erik Larson, Fibonacci sequence, Harvard University Press, numbers, patterns, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Wolfgang Pauli}

Breaking ChatGPT: Its Inability to Find Patterns in Numerical Sequences

_{William A. Dembski
May 30, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

10}

Pattern completion tasks like this have been part of aptitude testing for a long time. The NSA and CIA, for instance, have used them to help in hiring analysts. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, accident, Aristotle, atheism, causation, cellular metabolism, chance, complexity, Darwinism, deism, evolution, Fifth Way, final cause, Five Ways, intelligent design, material cause, natural science, nature, order, patterns, purpose, specification, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, watchmaker}

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

_{Michael Egnor
October 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics

10}

What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
May 28, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __tedited, alternative splicing, chimpanzee genome, chimpanzees, common ancestry, convergent evolution, Dennis Venema, genomic analysis, gorillas, human exceptionalism, human language, human lineages, ideology, patterns, probabilities, retroviruses, viruses}

The Naked Ape: An Open Letter to BioLogos on the Genetic Evidence, Cont.

_{Cornelius Hunter
May 28, 2016

Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

14}

It does not seem that the evidence supports evolutionary theory as Dennis Venema concludes. Read More ›

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post

Date
November 15, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, China, Darwinism, desert, evolution, patterns, Raymond Tallis, science}

When the End Comes for Darwinism…

_{Science & Culture
November 15, 2011

Evolution

1}

Writers, like speakers, reveal so much of themselves without intending to do so. Even our punctuation gives us away. Read More ›

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Date
November 14, 2011

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, China, Darwin on Trial, desert, law, patterns, Phillip E. Johnson, World}

About Those Odd Patterns in the Chinese Desert

_{Science & Culture
November 14, 2011

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

1}

Any real scientist would see that they are in fact the product of chance and necessity alone which fully account for their coming into existence and being picked up by Google Earth. Read More ›