Tag: probabilities

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 11, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Bayes factor, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian reasoning, biological design, environmental fitness, Evolution News, ID the Future, intelligent design, physical constants, plausibility, podcast, prior probability, probabilities, theism}

When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 11, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Elie Feder

Date
August 20, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, chance, design hypothesis, evil, intelligent cause, intelligent life, likelihood, natural disasters, physical constants, probabilities, suffering, universe}

Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 20, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes). Read More ›

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Author
Elie Feder

Date
August 19, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, chance, Cosmological Natural Selection, design, elimination, intelligent agents, Lee Smolin, multiverse, physical constants, physicists, probabilities, universe, William Lane Craig}

Examining the Fine-Tuning Argument by Elimination

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 19, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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In his article “Has the Multiverse Replaced God?” William Lane Craig presents the fine-tuning argument using the process of elimination. Read More ›

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Author
Elie Feder

Date
August 16, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, atoms, electromagnetism, electrons, Elie Feder, elimination, galaxies, gravitational force, gravity, intelligent cause, intelligent design, life, Luke Barnes, Mass, matter, molecules, multiverse, planets, probabilities, Robin Collins, stars, universe, William Lane Craig}

Three Ways to Formulate the Fine-Tuning Argument: An Introduction

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 16, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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At the heart of fundamental physics are the laws of nature. These laws govern the interactions between fundamental particles. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metascience
Science Education
Tagged
, academic misconduct, archeology, Arxiv.org, biological origins, cryptography, data falsification, data integrity, data science, Design Inference, Forensics, information, intelligent design, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Nature (journal), physicists, Piltdown Man, plagiarism, probabilities, probability, randomness, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, specification, Stanford University, superconductivity, Theo Baker, University of Rochester, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Leveraging the Design Inference for Effectively Falsifying Data

_{William A. Dembski
April 17, 2024

Intelligent Design, Metascience, Science Education

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The academy raises generation after generation of inept data falsifiers who embrace the foolish naiveté that their shenanigans are immune to discovery. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, astrobiologists, astrobiology, atmosphere, biosphere, complex specified information, evolutionists, Gaia, humans, information, information processing, intelligent design, life, plate tectonics, PLOS Biology, probabilities, prokaryotes, Universe Today, University of Edinburgh, volcanoes, water}

Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

_{David Coppedge
March 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Planetology

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Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 14, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, athens, early Earth, Epicurus, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Journal of the American Chemical Society, molecular biology, probabilities, RNA}

Is Epicurus Smiling?

_{Paul Nelson
January 14, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

Eugene Koonin pointed out that any abiogenesis scenario requires a cosmological background theory against which any local event probabilities must be evaluated. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 7, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, computers, Discovery Institute, human beings, information, Non-Computable You, probabilities, Robert J. Marks II, The Federalist}

Marks: Human Exceptionalism in a World of AI

_{Science and Culture
March 7, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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“Ever wonder whether computers will one day be capable of doing everything that human beings can?” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, evolution, eye, flagellum, Harvard University, Jason Rosenhouse, Leo Kadanoff, physical processes, probabilities, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), stochastic processes, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, University of Chicago}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Probability Theory Is Irrelevant

_{William A. Dembski
September 2, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

4}

If you deny that probabilities apply to a physical process, you’ve abjured science — you no longer have a scientific theory. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arthur Hunt, bacteria, BIO-Complexity, biological adaptations, chloroquine resistance, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Evolution: A View from the 21st Century, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), hypercube, James Shapiro, Jason Rosenhouse, Kenneth Miller, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, Nature (journal), On the Origin of Species, Plasmodium falciparum, probabilities, The Edge of Evolution, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, The Third Way, University of Chicago}

Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

_{William A. Dembski
June 29, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Read More ›