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William Dembski Offers an Updated Edition of an Intelligent Design Classic

Dembski says he stands by that work and his early contributions to intelligent design theory, but adds that he has learned a lot more in the intervening years. Read More ›
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Yes, Winston Ewert’s Dependency Graph Is a Real Model

The fact that known natural biological processes can produce non-tree-like patterns is problematic not for ID proponents but for proponents of common ancestry. Read More ›
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Just How Well Does That Cherry-Picked Data Fit an Evolutionary Tree?

The tree-like pattern from the dataset was not very strong. Of course, if you shuffle it, it looks strong compared to randomness. Read More ›
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I Got Critiqued by YouTuber Gutsick Gibbon

Erika is pursuing her Master’s of Research in Primate Biology, Behavior and Conservation and is the creator of hundreds of punchy, entertaining YouTube videos. Read More ›
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In Critiquing Dembski, Jason Rosenhouse Prioritizes Imagination over Reality

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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Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse

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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Photo: METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL, by loren chapman, via Flickr (cropped).

Conservation of Information — The Theorems

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 ›
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Jason Rosenhouse and Specified Complexity

Not all patterns eliminate chance in the presence of improbability. Take an arrow shot at a target. Read More ›
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The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs

Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification. Read More ›
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Does Intelligent Design Make Predictions or Retrodictions?

I would argue that a chronology of exactly what was predicted when is not dispositive as to whether a positive argument can be made. Read More ›

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