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Measuring Surprise — A Frontier of Design Theory

The carvings look sustained (there are many of them) and deliberate, unlike creases created by splitting and pitting of surfaces over ages. Read More ›
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BIO-Complexity Article Offers an Objective Method for Weighing Darwinian Explanations

Skeptics of evolutionary theory have argued that proposed Darwinian processes don’t rise to the level of plausible detailed explanations for the emergence of complex life. Read More ›
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Robert Marks: Randomness and the Enigma of Creativity

Only a freely acting, designing agent resolves the mystery. Only such an agent creates, truly, ex nihilo. Read More ›

Giraffe Weekend: Can Sexual Selection Save This Evolutionary Icon?

Geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig concludes that, “Sexual selection is not the cause of the long-necked giraffe.” Read More ›
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Successfully Measures Specified Complexity in Computer Images

"Is information being created when we snap a picture of Niagara Falls?" Read More ›
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Big white field flower Ammi majus. Bullwort, Queen Anne lace
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Peer-Reviewed Scientific Paper Develops New Ways of Measuring Complex and Specified Information in Life

The "Game of Life" is a computer simulation that's meant to mimic living systems. Read More ›
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Design Inference vs. Design Hypothesis

On a bright December day in 1994 in Green Valley, Arizona, the term "design inference" hit me. Read More ›

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