Category: ID
Design Disquisitions: Quote of the Month-Robin Collins on Why ID isn’t Science
| May 28, 2018 | Posted by Joshua G under Back to Basics of ID, Fine tuning, Food for thought, ID, Philosophy, Science |
It’s been a while sorry, but here’s my latest: Quote of the Month: Robin Collins on why ID isn’t a part of science
Michael Medved discusses intelligent design theory with Darwin’s Doubt author Steve Meyer
| May 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Design inference, ID, Intelligent Design |
Darwin’s Doubt deals with the Cambrian explosion of life forms about 550 million years ago. Philip Cunningham, who forwarded this link, notes, Stephen Meyer joins Michael to discuss the origins of life and the biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as […]
Hidden Code of the Future
| May 10, 2018 | Posted by PaV under Darwinism, Evolution, Genomics, ID, Intelligent Design |
At Phys.Org there’s a press release that talks about how “information” can be “hidden” in plain text. They use some kind of ‘perturbation’ method, which, I suspect is linked to some kind of set of statistics. Here’s what they say: Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information […]
AI, state/configuration space search and the ID search challenge
| February 2, 2018 | Posted by kairosfocus under Back to Basics of ID, Computing, AI, Cybernetics and Mechatronics, Conservation of Information, Darwinist rhetorical tactics, ID, Informatics, thermodynamics and information |
In his well-known work, No Free Lunch, p. 11, ID Researcher William A Dembski has illustrated the search challenge concept in terms of an arrow hitting a target amidst a reference class of possibilities. In so doing, he reaches back to the statistical mechanical and mathematical concept of a phase space “cut down” to address […]
Answering DiEb: Just what is “search” in a sense relevant to ID?
For some time now, objector DiEb has been raising the question, what do we mean by speaking of “search” in the context of evolutionary search. At 311 in the parody thread, she [IIRC] remarks: >>Search is a central term in the work of Dr. Dr. William Dembski jr, Dr. Winston Ewert, and Dr. Robert Marks […]
Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics: Media to get you started
| November 2, 2017 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, ID, Informatics |
Baylor computer scientist Robert Marks II checks in with news about the new book Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics: – (AI-CA) “The Mind Renewed” has published the transcript of the “Dr. Robert J. Marks II : Evolutionary Informatics” interview. Audio. YouTube. – (AI) Essay: “Why You Shouldn’t Worry About A.I. Taking Over the World” by R.J. […]
Design Disquisitions: Critic’s Corner-Sahotra Sarkar
| August 22, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Food for thought, ID, Philosophy, Science |
My latest ‘Critic’s Corner’ post is now up. This one features the work of ID critic Sahotra Sarkar. Sarkar is one of the more sophisticated critics of ID so his work is worth engaging with. I have responded to some of his arguments in a previous post and plan to do more in the future: […]
Design Disquisitions: Design & the Problem of Intelligibility
| June 16, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Back to Basics of ID, Complex Specified Information, Design inference, ID, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
Many critics of intelligent design argue that not only is ID false (or at least unscientific), but that it is basically meaningless. Such lines of criticism come from philosophers such as Sahotra Sarkar and Elliott Sober. They argue that the general concepts that are assumed in ID discussions like ‘design’ and ‘intelligence’ are too primitive and […]
Evolutionary Sandbox ID game
| June 3, 2017 | Posted by News under Culture, ID, News |
Gotten mixed reviews. See what you think. From Pillbug Zone: In a universe driven by targets, a faceless corporation employs you to create an evolving ecosystem you can never hope to control…
Design Disquisitions: Peter S. Williams on Intelligent Design
| May 22, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Audio, Biology, Complex Specified Information, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Food for thought, ID, Irreducible Complexity, Naturalism, Origin Of Life, Philosophy, Podcasts, Science |
In the latest post at Design Disquisitions I focus on the excellent work on ID by British philosopher Peter S. Williams. He has published several papers, and has many high quality articles and media presentations on the subject. His work was instrumental in initiating my change of mind from theistic neo-Darwinism to design. Highly recommended stuff! Peter […]
Design Disquisitions: On Perry Marshall’s ‘Evolution 2.0’ & Confusions About Design
| April 30, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Cell biology, Creationism, Engineering, Evolutionary biology, ID, Naturalism |
This week’s article at Design Disquisitions is about Perry Marshall’s ‘Evolution 2.0’ thesis and his criticisms of intelligent design. This article responds to some of his recent writings on his blog and his interaction with Stephen Meyer a few weeks back. Bottom line is, his philosophy of science has significant problems and he has some […]
Design Disquisitions: A Dialogue Between Peter S. Williams & Denis Alexander
| April 23, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Christian Darwinism, Complex Specified Information, Darwinism, Design inference, Food for thought, ID, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Philosophy |
Design Disquisitions: Critic’s Corner-Elliott Sober
| April 6, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Darwinism, Evolution, ID, Philosophy, Science |
Over at Design Disquisitions I have a new ‘Critic’s Corner’ post. This one focusses on the work related to ID and evolution by Elliott Sober, a prominent ID critic and philosopher of science. I’ve always seen Sober as a more sophisticated critic of ID. This will be a handy resource for finding pretty much everything that […]
Design Disquisitions: Jeffrey Koperski on Two Bad and Two Good Ways to Attack ID (Part 2): Two ‘Good’ Ways
| March 20, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Convergent evolution, Darwinism, ID, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Natural selection, Naturalism, Peer review, Philosophy, Probability, Science, theistic evolution |
Part two of my series looking at Jeffrey Koperski’s paper ‘Two Bad Ways to Attack Intelligent Design and Two Good Ones’ is now up on my blog. This one is quite in depth, but a couple of interesting issues come up along the way. I examine the concept of soft and hard anomalies in scientific […]
Design Disquisitions: William Dembski Moves on From ID: Some Reflections
| February 19, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under General interest, ID |
There’s a new article posted at my blog. I know this one is old news now, but my blog wasn’t around in 2015 and didn’t see any coverage on it here or at ENV. I wanted to take note of Dembski’s decision, and some of the reaction to it. Everyone who has taken part in the […]
Design Disquisitions: Critic’s Corner-Kenneth Miller
| February 12, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Cell biology, Darwinism, Evolution, ID, Irreducible Complexity, Natural selection |
This week’s post at Design Disquisitions is the first in a series of articles entitled ‘Critic’s Corner’ where I focus on a critic of ID. The main purpose of these posts is to document their work relevant to ID and also to document the direct responses to the particular critic in question, by those sympathetic to […]
Design Disquisitions: Quote of the Month
| February 8, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Back to Basics of ID, Design inference, ID, Mind |
I mentioned in my last post about featuring a ‘Critic’s Corner’ series on my blog. Another feature I will do is a ‘Quote of the Month’. This will be a good chance to interact and reflect on the quotation in question. This month’s quote is now up. Feel free to comment on the blog: William […]
Design Disquisitions: Giving the Critics a Fair Hearing
| February 5, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under General interest, ID |
This is a short post explaining a little feature I’ll be doing on my blog called ‘Critic’s Corner’. Hopefully it will turn out to be a useful resource. It goes without saying that ID isn’t the most popular idea in the world. Since its development and increased prominence in western culture, it has been widely […]
Design Disquisitions: Why the Question of Biological Origins Really Matters
| January 31, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Back to Basics of ID, Biology, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolutionary biology, General interest, ID, Lessons of History, Origin Of Life, Science, worldview issues/foundations and society |
Finally, I’ve managed to publish my first blog article! It’s been a rocky start as I had some technical difficulties. Nevertheless, it feels good to get the ball rolling. In this first article, I’ve chosen to take a step back and reflect upon whether or not intelligent design is an important problem to consider in […]
