Explanatory Filter – Uncommon Descent

Eric Holloway: Dembski’s filter is critical for internet communication

It turns out that legions of critics of the explanatory filter use it all the time, without noticing.

Design inference Intelligent Design Mathematics Multiverse Physics

The Effect of Infinite Probabilistic Resources on ID and Science (Part 1)

If the infinite universe critique holds, then not only does it undermine ID, but every huckster, conman, and scam artist will have a field day.

Truthfreedom { Today, with terabytes of data and lightning-fast computers, it is... }
JVL { upright BiPed: Please, please, please UB, take the bait! Please,... }
polistra { If you have to use stats you're not doing science.... }
vividbleau { HELP Is there a problem with the website. I am... }
kairosfocus { F/N: Let's dissect the usual source for progressivist-tinged conventional [UN-]wisdom,... }
john_a_designer { I think fascist sometimes gets used too loosely to mean... }
kairosfocus { JAD, that approach is there but would -- with some... }
kairosfocus { WS, you reflect much the same result I have as... }
bornagain77 { And although Darwinian explanations have useless to Biologists as they... }
bornagain77 { Coyne states, I’m optimistic enough to think that Darwin’s great... }
john_a_designer { I think the key characteristic which distinguishes fascism from Marxist-communism... }
kairosfocus { PPPS: Similarly, the transition to lawfulness occurs as there is... }
willspeaks { Sorry for the second post, it was taking a long... }
willspeaks { I have always thought that this was very simple if... }
willspeaks { I have always thought that this was very simple if... }
kairosfocus { PPS: Nazism and Communism, alike, are nihilistic, statist, lawless ideological... }
kairosfocus { PS: Let me briefly discuss the wider question, using the... }
kairosfocus { BA, I actually disagree on the Socialist and Workers' Party... }
kairosfocus { MMT, government and more properly governance are distributed across a... }
Truthfreedom { "Ninimal conventional bigotry". Lol Darwin's white supremacism: Athough best known... }
Truthfreedom { "Darwin’s great contribution to biology—indeed, to all humanity"—. Lol. Darwin's... }