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  • My History with Information: Opening Pandora’s Box
  • Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism
  • The Evolution of Specified Complexity

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scienceandculture.com /4 weeks ago

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. Source

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scienceandculture.com /4 weeks ago

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.  Source

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

The Evolution of Specified Complexity

Wolfgang Smith’s excitement about conservation of complex specified information or specified complexity was not widely shared. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Casey Luskin: A Chasm Between Paradigms

To speak of a “paradigm shift” on Junk DNA is another way of saying that the debate is over and ID won. Source

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Discovering a Design Argument Based on Biological Information

Charles Thaxton, along with Walter Bradley and Roger Olsen, wrote what arguably was the first official book of the intelligent design movement. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 week ago

Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?

On March 26–28, 1992, scientists and philosophers assembled at Southern Methodist University for an event whose title posed a provocative question. Source

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Precursors to the Design Inference — And a Nod to Dawkins

For Richard Dawkins, specified complexity required some special effort of explanation, but that effort could be performed by Darwinian natural selection. Source

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information. Source

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scienceandculture.com /4 days ago

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. Source

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

Critics of intelligent design or science-based theistic arguments often cite Isaac Newton as the prime example of a scientist who made this blunder. Source

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail

The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

“God of the Gaps,” and Other Old Friends: Responding to Critics in The Telegraph

There are a lot of commenters refuting arguments that Stephen Meyer never made. What he is offering is what philosophers of science call an abductive inference. Source

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Brian Miller: The Blur at the Edges, Versus the Blur Everywhere

Evidence for intelligent design in nature may be clear to you, while other matters relating to faith remain far more perplexing. Source

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Randomness by Design: A Derivative Idea, and a Fundamental One

My Christian faith was indispensable here. From the vantage of naturalism or materialism, randomness is fundamental. Source

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

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. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 week ago

Back in the Saddle: A Second Edition for The Design Inference

The big obstacle for me came from feeling at odds with my publisher, Cambridge University Press. Source

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

Suppose scientists did formulate a viable materialistic explanation for the origin of life. Couldn’t someone ask for an account of the origin of matter itself? Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Positive and Near-Positive Aspects of Designer Science

In C. W. Howell’s mind, intelligent design is still recovering from the Dover trial, and if there’s evidence to the contrary, he doesn’t want to see it. Source

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

In Science, Endless Competing Models Are a Warning Sign

Some of us are old enough to remember when the origin of life was a question that science would answer — soon. But that was hundreds of promising theories ago. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Origin of Biological Information? Nope, Just Its Recycling

Followers of the debate between intelligent design and Darwinian evolution will be familiar with Christoph Adami's example. Source

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scienceandculture.com /2 weeks ago

My 2014 Talk at the University of Chicago

After it had been announced on campus, Jerry Coyne, a prominent Darwinian biologist at the University of Chicago, tried to talk Leo into disinviting me. Source

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Testing the Creativity of Randomness

The evolutionary part of this paper relies on wishful thinking. What “could” or “might” happen occurs only in their evolutionary imaginations. Source

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Late Night Fun with Evolution and Oppenheimer

Bats by the millions would be falling from the roofs of caves if that ankle-locking design, an all-or-nothing proposition, had not come about all at once Source

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