William A. Dembski – Uncommon Descent

Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Design

William Dembski: Why computers will likely never perform abductive inferences

Computers require complete data to come to a correct conclusion but humans often work very well with incomplete data.

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Debating Darwin and Design: A Dialogue Between Two Christians

A couple of months ago, I agreed to take part in a written debate with a good friend of mine, Francis Smallwood. Francis, like me, is a commited Christian. Unlike me though, he is also a neo-Darwinist. On his blog Musings Of A Scientific Nature he writes on many different scientific issues, although his primary Read More…

bornagain77 Well that was an interesting article. In the first part of his article Epperson bemoans the “fallacy of misplaced concreteness.”... – Celebrity physicists are in a row...
Sandy Bob O'H Martin_r @ 4 – again, this is an A D A P T A T I O N... – Misleading claims about a long running...
Bob O'H Martin_r @ 4 - again, this is an A D A P T A T I O N …. why... – Misleading claims about a long running...
Bob O'H We'll see, but to me it sounds like a mechanism of DNA repair. – Human cells write RNA sequences into...
Sandy Pater Kimbridge @Sandy No…. more like how gravity functions to bring hydrogen together to make stars where none existed before.... – Michael Behe on the “purposeful arrangement...
Querius Kairosfocus @8, What you're describing are the evidences of intelligent design, namely fine tuning, fantastic complexity, emergence of novel body... – Jonathan Bartlett: Intelligent Design Is Not...
Querius Lawrence Krauss apparently doesn't understand nothing. Nothing is not space without time. Probability requires time. And space-time is something, not... – Celebrity physicists are in a row...
Querius Not practically. But that's not to say that quantum effects don't manifest in our macro world. Solar fusion, lasers, photosynthesis,... – Can only math solve the mystery...
TAMMIE LEE HAYNES In Science today, the public cant learn the truth. In practical terms, its impossible. As we have seen the leaders... – Why is science reporting so bad?
solemn existence Germaine to the discussion on body plan information, there's a 4 part series on the topic at ID the future.... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
Seversky Sounds like it might be a way of getting new information into a genome when ID/creationism argued it could only... – Human cells write RNA sequences into...
Seversky I have known science journalists for whom I had the greatest respect. They clearly cared very much about the subject... – Why is science reporting so bad?
ET Doubter, see the first comment. – Misleading claims about a long running...
ET Pater Kimbridge: Which is why I find it best to listen to the consensus of biologists when it comes to... – Michael Behe on the “purposeful arrangement...
mohammadnursyamsu KRock the one thing that matters is, the extent to which the scientists are materialists. There is materialist philosophy, which... – Why science is losing prestige…
mohammadnursyamsu Querius, Ofcourse I know nothing, but I can only call it as I see it, right? And like many, just... – Can only math solve the mystery...
Pater Kimbridge @Martin_r #22 Nope. Engineer. Which is why I find it best to listen to the consensus of biologists when it... – Michael Behe on the “purposeful arrangement...
Pater Kimbridge @Sandy No.... more like how gravity functions to bring hydrogen together to make stars where none existed before. And lava... – Michael Behe on the “purposeful arrangement...
doubter ET@8 Yes, it was a simple case of evolution, but no new complicated mechanism was created. Very little new information.... – Misleading claims about a long running...
ET Martin_r, E coli already had the ability to digest citrate. In the presence of oxygen the gene that codes for... – Misleading claims about a long running...
asauber You can't just blame journalists. You can blame them, but they are just 1/3 of the real story. I haven't... – Why is science reporting so bad?