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Darwinism

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William Dembski
Date
May 30, 2005
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Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design

ID in a Wiley Math Textbook

William Dembski
May 30, 2005
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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A good Darwinist will imagine 2 or 3 far-fetched intermediate useful stages, and consider the problem solved. I believe you would need to find thousands of intermediate stages before this example of irreducible complexity has been reduced to steps small enough to be bridged by single random mutations Read More ›
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William Dembski
Date
May 26, 2005
Categories
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design

Two Gifts for Richard Dawkins

William Dembski
May 26, 2005
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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the fossils of the "Cambrian Explosion" period, near the base of the geological column, include some of the most sophisticated eyes ever known to have existed — the compound eyes of trilobites have double calcite lenses, which defeat any slow evolutionary explanation, and, what is more, they have no precursor in the rocks Read More ›
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Author
William Dembski
Date
May 24, 2005
Categories
Darwinism
Evolution
Intelligent Design

Allen Orr’s Piece in the New Yorker

William Dembski
May 24, 2005
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Allen Orr’s article against ID is now out in the New Yorker (go here). It’s as bad as I thought it would be. I’m on the road right now but will comment on it later in the week. Note that I remarked last week on this blog that a fact-checker from the New Yorker had contacted me about this article. It doesn’t appear that the time I spent with this fact-checker did much to improve this article.