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William Dembski

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Say Goodbye to This Origin-of-Life “Get Out of Jail Free Card”

It’s good to be able to reflect that proponents of intelligent design have been saying things like this for years. Read More ›
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How a Self-Confessed “Miniature Richard Dawkins” Found His Way to Intelligent Design

Whether learning from a professor or chatting with a fellow student over coffee, Martin never ran into anyone to challenge his naturalistic worldview. Read More ›
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Recent Work: A Theory of Intelligence Metrics

"A standardized inferential method has emerged for SETI, archaeology, forensic science, and the historical sciences generally." Read More ›
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Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

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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Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism

Biology was giving us computer programming and symbolic codes which, by mapping functional structures to functional structures, exhibited a tacit semantics.  Read More ›
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My History with Information: Opening Pandora’s Box

Naturalism is like a Pandora’s box in that all of scientific explanation must be kept inside it. Read More ›
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The Missing Two Decades! What C. W. Howell Left Out of His “History” of ID

I conclude my conversation with Dr. Casey Luskin about his critique of a recent book from New York University Press, by C. W. Howell. Read More ›
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The Wow! Signal and a Project in Design Detection

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence searches through evidence from outer space in the hopes of finding something that indicates intelligent ET life. Read More ›
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New Stuart Burgess Article on Human Joints Reflects Growing Recognition of Design in Biology

A journal committed to scientific materialism publishes an article explicitly challenging evolution and promoting design. Read More ›
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Protocell Pretensions: The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research

This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Read More ›

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