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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, complex specified information, epilogue, evolution, faith and science, historical sciences, intelligent design, James Lileks, objections, Peter Robinson, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ricochet, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer}

Listen: Stephen Meyer Takes on All Challenges

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 4, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science

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We’ve been sharing some of our favorite recent interviews with the author. In our final entry, enjoy 30 minutes of Dr. Meyer in fine form. Read More ›

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Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baylor University, computer science, computers, Conservation of Information, Discovery Institute, DiscoveryU, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary informatics, improbable, information, information theory, intelligent design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, Kolmogorov information, Michael Behe, pancakes, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Study Evolution’s Information Problem with Engineer Robert Marks — and Save Over 50 Percent!

_{Science and Culture
January 10, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Science Education
Tagged
, Claude Shannon, computer code, DiscoveryU, DNA, education, information, intelligent design, mathematician, quizzes, Return of the God Hypothesis, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer}

Understanding “Information” — A Key to the Intelligent Design Debate

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Science Education

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With reading assignments and quizzes, this course is a great way to polish your skills in explaining ID without suffering a spade-shoveling mishap of your own. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, amino acids, biological information, critics, DNA, evolutionary processes, genetic code, information theory, Macbeth, physicists, proteins, Randy Isaac, RNA, Scrabble, semantic information, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, William Shakespeare}

Mistakes Our Critics Make: Information Theory

_{Brian Miller
July 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Researchers felt compelled to describe biological information using such phrases as “coding schemes,” “carries meaning,” “core program,” and “hierarchical rules (grammar).” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
June 19, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino-acid sequences, animal phyla, Claude Shannon, computer science, coordination, DNA, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolutionary theory, foresight, functional information, Hubert Yockey, information, information content, intelligent design, Intelligent Design YouTube Festival, No Free Lunch theorems, philosophical bias, Robert J. Marks II, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert, β-lactamase}

The Information Enigma: A Closer Look

_{Brian Miller
June 19, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I will flesh out the concept of biological information, and I will explain why significant quantities of it cannot be generated through natural processes. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 27, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, abiogenesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Allan Bloom, Anaxagoras, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, Claude Shannon, Dean Kenyon, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, Guillermo Gonzalez, Harvard University, Hubert Yockey, intelligent design, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, Leslie Orgel, Lord Byron, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Michael Polanyi, Miller-Urey experiment, Percy Shelley, Plato, Return of the God Hypothesis, RNA, San Francisco State University, Shannon information, Signature in the Cell, Socrates, spaghetti, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, uniformitarianism, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

Mystery of Life’s Origin — Intelligent Design’s Original Edition, Greatly Expanded, on Sale Now!

_{David Klinghoffer
January 27, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Being as Communion, blind search, Brian Miller, causation, Claude Shannon, Conservation of Information, David Snoke, David Wolpert, entropy, Eric Anderson, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Great Barrier Reef, information, information theory, Interface Focus, materialism, Michael Keas, No Free Lunch theorems, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Royal Society, Santa Fe Institute, semantic information, Shannon information, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski, William Macready}

Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?

_{Science and Culture
December 10, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics. Read More ›

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Date
April 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, active information, co-evolution, competition, complex specified information, CSI, ecological niches, fitness, gene sequences, Immune System, intelligent design, Joe Felsenstein, Law of Conservation of Information, magic, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, randomness, Shannon information, specification, specified information, University of Bristol, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

The Law of Zero Magic

_{Science and Culture
April 10, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The mystique of evolutionism is the idea that natural selection explains everything. In fact, natural selection itself explains nothing. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 30, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, Big Think, Fifth Way, intelligent design, John Archibald Wheeler, Santa Fe Institute, scientific revolution, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Aquinas, William A. Dembski}

Is Information the Basis for the Universe?

_{Michael Egnor
August 30, 2017

Intelligent Design

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Information, understood as formal and final cause, is what makes nature real. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
June 26, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, alphabet soup, Andrew Ellington, codons, DNA, entropy, Eugene Koonin, information, Michael Yarus, RNA world, Shannon information}

Origin of Life and Information — Some Common Myths

_{Brian Miller
June 26, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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A common attempt to overcome the need for information in the first cell is to equate information to a reduction in entropy. Read More ›