Tag: Richard Dawkins

Question and answer audience or crowd : Active participation Asian man raise hands to ask questions attending seminar in conference meeting and training

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 12, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, background knowledge, Big Bang, Big Mysteries Survey, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, Bruce Gordon, cosmology, fine-tuning, intelligent design, likelihoods, Matt Dillahunty, naturalism, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, Piers Morgan Uncensored, probability theory, Richard Dawkins, spacetime, Stephen Meyer, surveys, theism, universe}

In Debate with Meyer, Matt Dillahunty Brandishes His “Surveys”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 12, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 11, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, atheism, atheists, biology, cosmology, Denis Noble, Eric Idle, intelligent design, Matt Dillahunty, minstrels, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheism, New Atheists, Oxford University, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, The Telegraph}

Brave, Brave, Brave, Brave Sir Richard

_{David Klinghoffer
October 11, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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If I were an atheist, I would feel pretty discouraged about now by the New Atheist icon. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, analogy, atheism, Bible, biological information, Closer to Truth, complexity, DNA, dogmatism, Douglas Adams, functional specificity, God of the philosophers, improbability, information, intelligent design, Matt Dillahunty, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, New York University, Piers Morgan, Richard Dawkins, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Stephen Meyer, The Telegraph, theists, Thomas Nagel, universe}

Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2026

Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 7, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alistair McKitterick, atheists, Cambridge, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, England, Europe, evolution, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian worldview, London School of Theology, natural theology, nature, Richard Dawkins, scientific materialism, Scotsmen, United Kingdom, Western civilization, Whewell Center}

A Vital European Hub for Theistic Views on Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 7, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Alistair McKitterick explains how intelligent design and natural theology provide a robust framework that challenges modern scientific materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arguments, causal adequacy, cosmic fine-tuning, digital information, DNA, evidence, explanations, God of the gaps, ignorance, information, intelligent cause, intelligent design, materialistic processes, mind, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, specified information, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, understanding}

Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, intelligent design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 6, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, Adolf Hitler, atheism, Bible, Britons, cosmologists, cultural Christianity, debates, fine-tuning, Frankie Howerd, Guy Consolmagno, humor, intelligent design, Joseph Stalin, knobs, liturgy, London, masturbation, meteorites, neo-Darwinian evolution, New Atheists, newspapers, philosophy, physicists, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, Sir Martin Rees, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, The Tablet, The Telegraph, Up Pompeii!, Vatican Observatory}

Stephen Meyer versus Richard Dawkins: A Contest Made in Heaven?

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Much of the response by Dawkins is defensive in tone, and shifts the discussion to one of ethics and philosophy with only a vague gesture towards science. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithm, David Wolpert, displacement, evolutionary computing, information, intermediate sequences, My Personal History with Information, natural selection, No Free Lunch theorems, offloading, random sequence, Richard Dawkins, target, target sequence, The Blind Watchmaker, William Macready}

“Displacement,” or Offloading, and the Mysterious Million Dollars

_{William A. Dembski
October 5, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution

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Imagine trying to explain how Alice came into possession of $1,000,000. It would be one thing to say that, based on skills and effort, she earned $1,000,000. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Skyrms, Cambridge University Press, chance, complexity, improbability, information, Jaakko Hintikka, My Personal History with Information (series), natural selection, Ohio State University, philosophy, randomness, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, Synthese, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, Winston Ewert}

Precursors to the Design Inference — And a Nod to Dawkins

_{William A. Dembski
September 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For Richard Dawkins, specified complexity required some special effort of explanation, but that effort could be performed by Darwinian natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __trending, beginning, complex entities, cosmology, designer, DNA, Dunkirk, Energy, engines, evolutionary theory, fine-tuning, French recipes, infinite regress, information, initial entropy, intelligent design, matter, mind, neo-Darwinian mechanism, Ockham’s razor, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, software, Stephen Meyer, Stonehenge, The God Delusion, The Telegraph, uncaused cause, universe, worldview}

Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
September 29, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Suppose scientists did formulate a viable materialistic explanation for the origin of life. Couldn’t someone ask for an account of the origin of matter itself? Read More ›