The new video Metamorphosis presents the case for intelligent design in a powerful way. The metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly is a spectacular example of “irreducible complexity,” and here is why. In my 2000 Mathematical Intelligencer article “A Mathematician’s View of Evolution,” I compared the development of the genetic code of life with the development of a computer program, such as my finite element code PDE2D . I pointed out that the record of PDE2D’s development would be similar to the fossil record, with large gaps where major new features (new orders, classes and phyla) appeared, and smaller gaps where minors ones (new families, genera or species) appeared (see also this short video). I argued, Whether at the microscopic or Read More ›

Science has gone mad. Or, so it seems. The materialist urge seems to be so great that every branch of science now appears to be lurching toward the Darwinian paradigm, which, as I indicate in the title of this OP, is, basically, the “mother of materialism”! Here’s why I say this. We’ve just finished (or, are beginning, or, something) with Chaitin’s search for “evolving software”. He wants to prove the Darwinian paradigm true by building a software that can maintain its evolving ways. In the course of doing this, he reaches the conclusion that mathematics is “more biological than biology itself, which merely contains extremely large finite complexity” (and not the “infinite” complexity the software program requires). So, mathematics is Read More ›

For those attending next year’s Engineering and Metaphysics conference, this is the last week for the early bird discount. For those interested, the Engineering and Metaphysics conference brings together how the larger pictures of humanity and reality affect engineering decisions. For those in the ID movement, this might include some aspects of applied Intelligent Design. For more details and registration information, see the conference website: http://www.eandm2012.com/