Tag: Paul Nelson

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __featured1, Arthur M. Shapiro, C. S. Lewis Society, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Thaxton, Christian Leadership Ministries, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?, Darwinists, David L. Wilcox, David Raup, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Earl Warren, evolution, Field Museum, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Frederick Grinnell, Jesuit Campion Center, Jon Buell, Jonathan Wells, K. John Morrow Jr., Leslie K. Johnson, McLean v. Arkansas, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Owen Gingerich, Pajaro Dunes, Paul Nelson, Peter van Inwagen, Phillip E. Johnson, Southern Methodist University, Spring Systematics Symposium, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Stephen Sternberg, Tacoma, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, The Sources of Information Content in DNA, Thomas E. Woodward, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, Will Provine, William A. Dembski}

Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?

_{Stephen C. Meyer and William A. Dembski
October 13, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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On March 26–28, 1992, scientists and philosophers assembled at Southern Methodist University for an event whose title posed a provocative question. 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 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 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, American Scientific Affiliation, biology, Cambridge, Charles Thaxton, Douglas Axe, England, information, intelligent design, My Personal History with Information (series), nonrandomness, Paul Nelson, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, Prague, randomness, Stephen Meyer, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago}

Flying Solo Before Joining Steve Meyer and Paul Nelson

_{William A. Dembski
October 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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I had a deep sense of calling that I needed to work on bringing design back into science. But I had no colleagues to talk with about this. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 9, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Baylor University, biology, Brown University, bubonic plague, Charles Thaxton, Congress, Darwin’s Black Box., Douglas Axe, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, faculty, injectisome, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, James Shapiro, Jonathan Wells, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kenneth Miller, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, motorcycles, mousetrap, naturalists, non-theistic evolution, Pajaro Dunes, Paul Nelson, protein evolution, Roger Olsen, San Francisco, Seattle Pacific University, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Meyer, T3SS, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theistic evolution, type 3 secretory system, University of Chicago, Walter Bradley, Yersinia pestis}

Darwin’s Black Box, 30 Years On: A Seminal Contribution to Biology

_{William A. Dembski
August 9, 2026

Biochemistry, Biology, Intelligent Design

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It makes sense to think that the T3SS didn’t evolve into the bacterial flagellum, but that the bacterial flagellum shed some protein parts to become a T3SS. Read More ›

Glowing flagellar motor at the base of a bacterial flagellum visualizing the rotary motion and its energy source

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 3, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, bacterial flagellar motor, biochemistry, cells, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Black Box, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, George Gilder, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, microbiology, National Review, nature, New York Times, Paul Nelson, quantum theory, Revolutionary Behe, Robert Boyle, Stephen Meyer, Watson and Crick}

Irreducible Behe: The Shy Revolutionary Who Took Down Darwin

_{David Klinghoffer
August 3, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The cell for Darwin was a black box. He was, in that sense, blind — and the blindness was the condition in which he formulated his theory. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Blaise Pascal, boats, Charles Darwin, Cicero, conversations, courtrooms, cruise ship, DNA, entrepreneurs, executives, Florence, Galileo Galilei, HR departments, implossible, intelligent design, intention, jesus, jobs, Kevin Kelly, leaders, Leonardo da Vinci, magazines, Michael Behe, Moses, Paul Nelson, Pythagoras, Renaissance, salary, scholars, Stephen Meyer, talent, television, universities, Wa’a Kaulua, William Dembski}

Aboard the Lifeboat — or Cruise Ship — of Intelligent Design

_{George Montañez
June 12, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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It takes persistence to remain on board. Not everyone is cut out for the life of a maligned academic. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bioRxiv, Bright Angel Shale, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canadian Rockies, chelicerates, China, compound eyes, cosmos, Current Biology, Darwin's Dilemma, Douglas Axe, Ediacaran strata, fossil record, Grand Canyon, Hallucigenia, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design Collection, jellyfish, Jerry Harned, Jonathan Wells, Lad Allen, marine worms, Mark Edward Lewis, mites, Nature (journal), New York Times, olfactory organs, paleontology, Paul Nelson, PNAS, polychaetes, priapulids, Richard Sternberg, salmon, Science Advances, Science and Culture Today, scorpions, South Australia, spiders, stars, Stephen Meyer, The Origin of Species, The Privileged Planet, trilobites, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Utah}

Cambrian Explosion Remains the Gift that Keeps on Giving

_{David Coppedge
June 5, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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These representative papers show that the Cambrian Explosion remains a huge enigma for evolutionists. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Ann Gauger, asteroids, biological complexity, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, chemists, comets, glass, lightning, mind, origin of life, oxygen, paint, Paul Nelson, science, screws, starting pistol, UV light, volcanoes}

Here We Go Again: For Complex Life, Just Add Fertilizer

_{David Coppedge
January 23, 2026

Evolution, Origin of Life

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You may have all the ingredients you want, in the right quantities, but without a builder, nothing functionally complex will emerge. Read More ›