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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, “consensus science”, artificial intelligence, bias, ChatGPT, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Internet, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mousetrap, natural selection, Phillip E. Johnson, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, specification, specified complexity, teleology, William A. Dembski}

Using Intelligent Design to Train ChatGPT to Lay Aside Bias

_{William A. Dembski
May 11, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

5}

This exchange from yesterday underscores the need for “prompt engineers” that know how best to use and direct ChatGPT. Read More ›

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Date
May 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Assembly Theory, enzymes, genetic instructions, intelligent design, interpretation, Lee Cronin, life, molecules, Philip Ball, proteins, Quanta Magazine, specification, William A. Dembski}

Meet Intelligent Design’s Naturalistic Cousin: Assembly Theory

_{Science & Culture
May 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

When one notices conceptual similarities and parallels, it would be remiss for us not to highlight them. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Assembly Theory, bacteria, Cambridge University Press, design detection, Elisabeth Bik, fraud, intelligence, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Lee Cronin, New York Times, pattern, probability, Retraction Crisis, Sara Walker, specification, Twitter, William A. Dembski}

Design Detection in the New York Times — The Issue of Science Fraud

_{Paul Nelson
November 3, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

3}

When the pincer closes around a pattern, intelligent causation is uniquely implicated. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambridge University Press, coin toss, complexity, complexity theory, Darwinists, evolution, Francis Crick, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Maynard Smith, Leo Kadanoff, Leslie Orgel, natural selection, Paul Davies, poker, probability, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, royal flush, Skeptical Inquirer, specification, specified complexity, target, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, UC Irvine, University of Notre Dame, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Jason Rosenhouse and Specified Complexity

_{William A. Dembski
June 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Not all patterns eliminate chance in the presence of improbability. Take an arrow shot at a target. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
March 25, 2022

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, complexity, cryptography, design detection, DNA, probability, Rosetta Stone, scientific method, Signature in the Cell, specification, The Design Inference, What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design? (series), William A. Dembski}

The Logic of Design Detection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 25, 2022

Archaeology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

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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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 12, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, Darwin's Doubt, Design Inference, DNA, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Journal of Theoretical Biology, logical fallacies, molecular motors, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Ola Hössjer, protein complexes, Simon Conway Morris, specification, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Kauffman}

Repentant Biology Journal Offers a Weak Rebuttal to Its Own Pro-ID Fine-Tuning Paper

_{Casey Luskin
October 12, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design

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The authors close by quoting Carl Sagan’s famous adage that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Do they offer that kind of evidence? Read More ›

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post

Date
August 31, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cryptography, Eric Holloway, information theory, intelligent design, Robert Crowther, specification, William A. Dembski}

Answering Critiques of Specification in William Dembski’s Design Filter

_{Science & Culture
August 31, 2020

Intelligent Design

1}

William Dembski accurately formalized a filter we use so often that we’re like fish in the sea. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __cedited, Alexander Oparin, biological information, biologists, chance, chemical evolution, Claude Shannon, complexity, DNA, functional specificity, intelligent design, living cells, natural selection, RNA, specification, specified complexity}

Evidence of Intelligent Design in the Origin of Life

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 3, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

As the pioneering chemical evolutionary theorist Alexander Oparin put it, “The problem of the nature of life and the problem of its origin have become inseparable.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, accident, Aristotle, atheism, causation, cellular metabolism, chance, complexity, Darwinism, deism, evolution, Fifth Way, final cause, Five Ways, intelligent design, material cause, natural science, nature, order, patterns, purpose, specification, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, watchmaker}

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

_{Michael Egnor
October 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics

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What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›

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Date
January 17, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, BIO-Complexity, Brownian motion, complex specified information, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, George D. Montañez, Robert J. Marks II, specification, specified complexity, surprise, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Measuring Surprise — A Frontier of Design Theory

_{Science & Culture
January 17, 2019

Intelligent Design

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The carvings look sustained (there are many of them) and deliberate, unlike creases created by splitting and pitting of surfaces over ages. Read More ›