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Darwinist Turns Math Cop: Track 1 and Track 2

Jason Rosenhouse insists that intelligent design proponents obey his rules, but happily flouts them himself. Read More ›
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Anthropic Fine-Tuning as Evidence of Design

The multiverse concept posits the existence of many other universes, each with different sets of physical parameters. Read More ›
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The Logic of Design Detection

Rational agents often detect the prior activity of other designing minds by the character of the effects they leave behind. Read More ›
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Eric Anderson: Probability and Intelligent Design

Anderson taps an area of his expertise, the ongoing efforts to create self-reproducing machines, and he applies it to the mystery of life’s origin. Read More ›
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Study Evolution’s Information Problem with Engineer Robert Marks — and Save Over 50 Percent!

How does information theory challenge Darwinian evolution? And how can the methods of probability be used to assess key evolutionary claims? Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer, James Croft: Philosophers Battle Over the God Hypothesis

Croft ultimately had the worse of the argument on substance, as I intend to show over several forthcoming posts. Read More ›
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Bernoulli, Keynes, and the Big Bang

In analysis of fine-tuning, No Free Lunch Theorems, and conservation of information, Bernoulli’s PrOIR is foundational. Read More ›
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We Don’t Live in a Multiverse Because the Concept Makes No Sense

Novella and Goff invoke “multiple everything” while at the same time defining “everything” in a way that precludes observation. Nonsense has its uses. Read More ›
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Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics (Updated)

Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace: Shedding Light on Darwin’s Shadow

Nature’s prophet and Darwin's challenger, Wallace's effort was to restore nature to the “space-spirit hierarchy” it once knew. Read More ›

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