Tag: Wistar Symposium

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 26, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, apologetics, biological complexity, biology, Chinese Room, creationists, function, genotype, information, information processing, intelligent design, John Searle, Marcel Schützenberger, Martin M. Kaplan, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, Paul S. Moorhead, phenotype, semantics, Stanislaw Ulam, The Creation of Life, University of Illinois at Chicago, William Dembski, Wistar Symposium, Young Earth Creationism}

Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism

_{William A. Dembski
September 26, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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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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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Devil, ID the Future, mathematics, Paris, podcast, Science After Babel, Tower of Babel, Wistar Symposium}

Materialistic Science Resembles a Tower of Babel

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 23, 2025

Evolution, Mathematics

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David Berlinski reflects on the seminal 1966 WISTAR symposium, which laid out some mathematical challenges to Darwinism. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinism, David Berlinski, ID the Future, intellectuals, materialistic science, mathematician, Paris, philosophers, podcast, Science After Babel, Tower of Babel, Wistar Symposium}

Listen: In a New Book, David Berlinski Gives the Devil His Due

_{Science & Culture
June 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Berlinski is at his best as he discusses everything from the Tower of Babel as a metaphor for modern science, to his friendship with Marcel Schützenberger. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
April 21, 2021

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Zoology
Tagged
, angiosperms, Cambrian Explosion, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, convergence, creator, Darwinists, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, logos, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Mexico, Michael Behe, mousetrap, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, Second Law of Thermodynamics, United States, University of Bonn, Utricularia, Wistar Symposium, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

_{Granville Sewell
April 21, 2021

Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Zoology

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Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 8, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, __cedited, C.H. Waddington, calculations, Darwin on Trial, Darwin-skeptics, Darwinists, David Berlinski, evidence, evolution, Michael Denton, micromutations, organisms, organs, Peter Medawar, Philadelphia, Phillip E. Johnson, rational thought, Wistar Symposium}

Wistar: Been There, Done That

_{David Klinghoffer
November 8, 2018

Evolution, Mathematics

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Would it, in fact, be enlightening if you were to sit a Darwinist and a Darwin skeptic together for an extended period of time to talk and see what really lies at the bottom of their disagreement? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 28, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anaxagoras, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, evolution, history, Insiders Briefing, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Robert Crowther, Tacoma, Wistar Symposium}

Flannery: Who Is the “Godfather” of Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 28, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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One of the untruths told about the modern ID movement is that it has no history to speak of. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 2, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, events, materialism, Royal Society, science, Wistar Symposium}

The Road to the Royal Society: The Problems That Matter, the Problems That Don’t

_{Paul Nelson
November 2, 2016

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Like Sherlock Holmes's dog that did not bark in the night, the RS meeting is noteworthy for those speakers who were not invited. Read More ›

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Date
April 25, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __cedited, DNA, Neo-Darwinism, science, The Information Enigma, video, Wistar Symposium}

Wistar and DNA Day: A 50-Year Fuse Under Neo-Darwinism

_{Science & Culture
April 25, 2016

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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The Wistar conference, which opened in Philadelphia on April 25, 1966, was the beginning of the end for neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
July 26, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, events, science, Wistar Symposium}

What Really Happened at Wistar II

_{Ann Gauger
July 26, 2012

Evolution

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Several times now, an erroneous account has been quoted against me in different venues. In the interests of truth, I am therefore setting the record straight. Read More ›

Brilliant Young Mathematician Is Writing on Big Blackboard and Thinking about Solving Long and Complex Equation/ Formula.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 11, 2006

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, __edited, algorithms, complexity, credentialism, evolutionary informatics, language, Scientific Dissent from Darwin, semantic information, specialization, syntax, Wistar Symposium}

Mathematicians and Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
July 11, 2006

Evolution, Mathematics

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Mathematics has a strong tradition of giving cogent critique of evolutionary biology. Read More ›