Tag: The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arkansas, bread, commitment, Dallas, Darwinism, evolution, Jason Rosenhouse, mental illness, police, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: An Appeal to Sanity

_{William A. Dembski
September 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

I’ll close with a story. My wife used to set up psychiatric units across the U.S. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, evolution, eye, flagellum, Harvard University, Jason Rosenhouse, Leo Kadanoff, physical processes, probabilities, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), stochastic processes, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, University of Chicago}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Probability Theory Is Irrelevant

_{William A. Dembski
September 2, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science

4}

If you deny that probabilities apply to a physical process, you’ve abjured science — you no longer have a scientific theory. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, clouds, debates, dragon, English, evolution, gears, humans, intelligent design, Internet, Jason Rosenhouse, jumping, Michael Shermer, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, Why Darwin Matters}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds

_{William A. Dembski
September 1, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 31, 2022

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, evolution, fitness function, Hamlet, information, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Stuart Mill, letters, logic, natural selection, polynucleotides, replicase, replication, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), selection, simplicity, Sol Spiegelman, spaces, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, unwashed middle, variation, William Shakespeare}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information

_{William A. Dembski
August 31, 2022

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beta-lactamase, Darwinism, Darwinists, debates, Douglas Axe, E. coli, evolution, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jason Rosenhouse, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, probabilistic resources, Richard Lenski, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), Sisyphus, specified complexity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle

_{William A. Dembski
August 30, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

8}

Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Arthur Hunt, bacterial flagella, biological structures, circular reasoning, Conservation of Information, design detection, Douglas Axe, evolution, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, James Madison University, mind, molecular machines, natural selection, Ola Hössjer, Panda's Thumb, Robert J. Marks II, rotary motors, royal flush, specified complexity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

In Critiquing Dembski, Jason Rosenhouse Prioritizes Imagination over Reality

_{Brian Miller
July 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

7}

Rosenhouse’s belief in the creative power of evolutionary processes is based not on hard data but on his faith in the philosophy of scientific materialism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, book reviews, Cambridge University Press, Darwinists, dialogue, evolution, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, Panda's Thumb, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William A. Dembski}

Rosenhouse Roundup

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Jason Rosenhouse wrote an anti-ID book for Cambridge U. Press that our colleague, his fellow mathematician William Dembski, reviewed. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, book reviews, Cambridge University Press, dialogue, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William A. Dembski}

Invitation to Jason Rosenhouse: Respond to Dembski

_{David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Nothing is more clarifying than reasoned argument, as Professor Rosenhouse appears to agree in his book. Now let’s find out what he will say. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, artificial life, Christoph Adami, Conservation of Information, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, disinformation, evolution, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Jonathan Wells, Richard Lenski, Robert Pennock, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Meyer, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, Winston Ewert, Wistar Institute, Zombie Science (book)}

Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse

_{William A. Dembski
July 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

Does it really need to be pointed out that roads are designed? That where they go is designed? And that even badly laid out roads are laid out by design? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, active information, artificial life, computer simulations, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, fitness functions, fitness landscapes, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), information, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, No Free Lunch theorems, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, search, Templeton Prize, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, Thomas Schneider, Weasel program, Wikipedia, Winston Ewert}

Conservation of Information — The Theorems

_{William A. Dembski
July 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

We’ve seen active information before in the Dawkins Weasel example. The baseline search for METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL stands no hope of success. Read More ›