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Karsten Pultz

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Denyse O'Leary
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August 18, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon offers some comments on Karsten Pultz’s “Bicycle” ID thesis

Denyse O'Leary
August 18, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
Sheldon: "... in computer science, it is very difficult to make a random number generator. Successive runs of the code should not produce the same numbers. But most generators do." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 16, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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Karsten Pultz on why randomness depends on order

Denyse O'Leary
August 16, 2021
Intelligent Design
Pultz: Comparing to evolution, the randomness produced by the orderly dice, would be the same randomness having produced the dice itself, because that’s how evolution works, slowly building order by random events from the bottom up. Applying the same hypothetical process to bicycles the random event that I get a puncture when riding my bike would be the same type of event which initially created the bike. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 2, 2021
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Design inference, Engineering, Intelligent Design
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Why a mechanic infers design. Karsten Pultz explains

Denyse O'Leary
August 2, 2021
Design inference, Engineering, Intelligent Design
Pultz: Empirical evidence (from the world of engineering) supports the assumption that complex functional systems like motors do not arise via random changes to already existing systems. Empirical evidence, even from biology itself, also supports the common knowledge that random changes to functional systems disturb, disrupt, or destroy function. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 13, 2021
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Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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Our Danish correspondent Karsten Pultz on how evo folk and ID folk think differently when arguing

Denyse O'Leary
July 13, 2021
Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
ID has the benefit of being able to argue for design by comparing to objects we know for certain were intelligently designed. Evolution does not have this advantage. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 2, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, theistic evolution
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Karsten Pultz: Christian students in Denmark dig up the fossil of theistic evolution

Denyse O'Leary
May 2, 2021
Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, theistic evolution
Pultz: They find support in writings from the Biologos organization but also, weirdly enough, turn to atheist Stefaan Blancke and his paper “Irreducible incoherence and Intelligent Design: a look into the conceptual toolbox of a pseudoscience”. I guess the old saying that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” can be applied to this bizarre situation where young adherents to theistic evolution join ranks with atheists to prevent other young Christians from being drawn to ID. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 21, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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Our Danish correspondent, Karsten Pultz, brings us up to date on Jørn Dyerberg and the growth of ID thinking in Scandinavia

Denyse O'Leary
December 21, 2020
Intelligent Design
My excitement made me overcome my telephone-phobia and I called Dyerberg to have him elaborate on this statement. He told me that the probabilistic issues alone obviously render Neo-Darwinian evolution unscientific and pointed specifically to the Neo-Darwinian origin of life scenario being totally improbable and therefore not scientifically viable. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 27, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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Karsten Pultz: Review of Denton’s “The Miracle Of The Cell”

Denyse O'Leary
November 27, 2020
Intelligent Design
Pultz: Denton reveals the extreme specificity of the elements, how the properties—the configuration of electrons—of every single element is clearly tuned to fit the properties of the other elements such that no substitutions seem possible. The chemical characteristics of each element play together in a symphony of awesome fine tuning. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 11, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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Karsten Pultz on the recent Behe-Swamidass debate

Denyse O'Leary
November 11, 2020
Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
Pultz: In my view, Swamidass excels as an expert in smokescreens; he can talk endlessly without nailing down tangible and memorable points. Although pressured more than once by Behe to deliver at least a single counter argument to IC, he did not come up with anything containing even a whiff of substance. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 5, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
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Karsten Pultz comes to the defense of the Elsevier editors who say they did not know that the Hossjer–Thorvaldsen paper was ID-friendly

Denyse O'Leary
November 5, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
The editors need not, of course, sympathize with the ID perspective to think that evidence for it should be permitted to be discussed. At one time, that was a conventional intellectual position. But the Darwinians, as we’ve said here earlier, are an early flowering of Cancel Culture. No evidence may be discussed that may be thought to favor an Incorrect view. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 20, 2020
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
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Karsten Pultz offers some thoughts on the flap over the now-famous Thorvaldsen and Hössjer paper

Denyse O'Leary
October 20, 2020
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity
It should also be considered that in his book Der Teil und das Ganze, Werner Heisenberg expresses his own and also Niels Bohrs’ doubt that random mutations could have produced any of the complex biological systems... Bohr adds that while natural selection obviously occurs it is the idea that new species come about by random changes, which is very hard to imagine, even if this is the only way science can explain it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 27, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Karsten Pultz on the Scandinavians who are threatened by ID

Denyse O'Leary
May 27, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
The logic behind the examples of bad design as evidence against ID, is that if a feature in nature has flaws, it cannot have been intelligently designed. The same logic, applied to the old Jaguar I once owned, would imply that it was not designed. Read More ›