Tag: probability

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Casey Luskin, David Hullender, evolution, ID the Future, macroevolution, Neo-Darwinism, Olen Brown, podcast, probability, scientists, species, University of Missouri, University of Texas}

Can Darwinian Evolution Be Rescued from Dogma?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 23, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Casey Luskin begins a conversation with two distinguished PhD scientists who are asking tough questions of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, acorn, Aristotle, chance, Chance and Necessity, Francisco Ayala, Greek, information, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jacques Monod, Jay Richards, Marcos Eberlin, matter, Metaphysics (book), Michelangelo’s David, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, nature, possibilities, probability, Richard Dawkins, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, Shakespearean sonnet, specified complexity, systems, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Aquinas, tree, William Shakespeare}

Building a Better Definition of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
July 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

41}

Definitional change in science is par for the course: As paradigms shift because of scientific advances, textbook definitions change. Read More ›

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post

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, inkblot, intelligence, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, Ludwig Wittgenstein, marbles, 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

30}

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

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post

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

15}

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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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 4, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, bacterium, complexity, Darwinian evolution, DNA, E. coli, evolvability, information, information theory, intelligent design, Kolmogorov complexity, Kolmogorov information, Leslie Orgel, life, molecules, polymers, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Shannon information, specification, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Origins of Life, Winston Ewert}

Orgelian Specified Complexity

_{William A. Dembski
March 4, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

13}

I have presented Orgel’s account of specified complexity so readers can decide which they prefer, Orgel’s or the one described in this series. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Biological Information: New Perspectives, civilization, compensation, Darwinists, disorder, entropy, human intelligence, Mathematical Intelligencer, Moon, multiverse, natural forces, open system, order, physical constants, Physics Essays, probability, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified complexity, sun, tautology, temperature, The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, William A. Dembski}

Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

_{Granville Sewell
March 1, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

12}

This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, beta-lactamase, calculations, cars, Design Inference, Douglas Axe, formalism, Jack Szostak, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, Mount Rushmore, probability, protein folds, Shannon information, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert}

Specified Complexity and a Tale of Ten Malibus

_{William A. Dembski
March 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

The validity of these estimates and the degree to which they can be refined can be disputed. But the underlying formalism of specified complexity is rock solid. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, birthdays, complexity, Dark Helmet, Darth Vader, Dave Farina, English, George Washington, improbability, information theory, intuition, Luke Skywalker, Mount Rushmore, poetry, poker, probability, Professor Dave, royal flush, Spaceballs, specification, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), Star Wars, The Design Inference, The Empire Strikes Back, Theodore Roosevelt}

Intuitive Specified Complexity: A User-Friendly Account

_{William A. Dembski
February 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

At this early stage in the discussion, however, it seems wise to lay out specified complexity in a convenient non-technical way. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, coincidence, data falsification, deception, Design Inference, gardening, Gregor Mendel, honesty, improbability, New York Times, parapsychology, peas, plagiarism, probability, protocols, specification, UC San Diego}

Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 28, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Physical Sciences

8}

What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arrow, 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

6}

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