Tag: probabilistic resources

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 22, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, Africa, beneficial mutations, biology, C-Harlem, cellular networks, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Dave Farina, de novo genes, degradation, Educating Dave Farina (series), evolution, expression, generation time, genetics, information, insults, loss-of-function, Michael Behe, misrepresentations, name-calling, neofunctionalization, neutral mutations, non-coding DNA, population genetics, probabilistic resources, protein folding, pseudogenes, purifying selection, strawman, The Edge of Evolution, unguided processes, YouTubers}

Dave Farina Misunderstands Behe’s Darwin Devolves

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 22, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Genetics

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Farina’s response to my previous series is characterized by misrepresentations, selective engagement, and reliance on insults and name-calling. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 26, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioCosmos, carbohydrates, cell adhesion, complexity, dGRNs, endoplasmic reticulum, evolution, glycans, glycosylation, glycosyltransferases, Golgi apparatus, intelligent causes, intelligent design, kidney cells, nerve cells, probabilistic resources, proteins, signaling, stochastic processes, University of Georgia}

New Paper Examines How the Complexity of Glycan Structures Points to Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 26, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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"This is, of course, important in order for a kidney cell to be and function as a kidney cell, a nerve cell to function as a nerve cell, and so forth." Read More ›

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Date
July 22, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, complex specified information, Dan Stern Cardinale, Discovery Institute, DNA, Dr. Dan, evolution, intelligent design, metabolism, mRNA, probabilistic resources, protein translation, proteome, regulatory regions, Rutgers University, topoisomerase, YouTube videos}

On Intelligent Design, Dr. Dan Appears to Equivocate

_{Science & Culture
July 22, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

In an ongoing dialogue with ID proponents, Rutgers University biologist Dan Stern Cardinale (aka Dr. Dan) has replied to us with a recent video. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur C. Clarke, Chinese, Claude Shannon, Contact (novel), demiurge, Dubai, English, etymology, Hamlet, Hebrew, information, intelligence, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Kolmogorov information, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Moses, Plato, probabilistic resources, probability, rock, SETI, Shannon information, specification, specified complexity, Stone Age, The Design Inference, Timaeus, William Shakespeare}

Why Specified Complexity Is Key to Detecting Design

_{William A. Dembski
May 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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In plain English here is what specified complexity is and why it is able to detect design. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 6, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, camouflage, cuttlefish, Darwinian mechanisms, fitness landscapes, Irreducible Complexity, MIT, mutations, NBC, Office of Naval Research, probabilistic resources, reverse-engineering, skin, Systems Biology, Washington Post}

Yet Another Engineering Innovation from Cuttlefish

_{Daniel Witt
March 6, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

It was never a given that when scientists looked deeper into life, they would find such exquisite designs; but they did. 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

7}

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
November 27, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, biological systems, chance, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinians, evolution, intelligent design, luck, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pattern, probabilistic resources, probability, random, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, target, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, theists, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 27, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
October 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Bill Nye, Cambrian animals, college, Darwin's Doubt, earth, evolution, evolutionary biology, high school, intelligent design, Kindle, libraries, life, neo-Darwinian mechanism, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, probabilistic resources, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, textbooks}

Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin

_{Emily Sandico
October 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

2}

Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations." Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beta-lactamase, Darwinism, Darwinists, debates, Douglas Axe, E. coli, evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jason Rosenhouse, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, probabilistic resources, Richard Lenski, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), Sisyphus, specified complexity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

_{William A. Dembski
August 30, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

8}

Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Carl Sagan, Casey Luskin, chemical evolution, Cornell University, Curiosity rover, Darwinism, Enceladus, Francesco Redi, Jonathan Bartlett, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Louis Pasteur, Mars, methane, microbes, Mind Matters, New Scientist, probabilistic resources, The Conversation, University of Arizona, University of Washington, Venus}

Methane Causes Space Aliens?

_{Science & Culture
July 23, 2021

Physical Sciences

8}

Recent sensational headlines give astute readers occasion to contrast valid scientific inferences from leaps of faith based on worldview assumptions. Read More ›