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^{William A. Dembski
February 1, 2007
Intelligent Design

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No Free Lunch

_{William A. Dembski
February 1, 2007
Intelligent Design

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No Free Lunch, the sequel to mathematician and philosopher William Dembski's Cambridge University Press book The Design Inference, explores key questions about the origin of specified complexity. Dembski explains that the Darwinian search mechanism of random mutation coupled with natural selection is incapable of generating novel complex, specified information (CSI).

This observation translates into "No Free Lunch" (NFL) theorems, which Dembski explains are inherent constraints upon natural systems. Natural Darwinian mechanisms can shuffle this information around, but only intelligence can generate novel CSI. In other words, when it comes to generating truly novel biological complexity, Darwin can have no free lunch...

Hines Ward’s Tale of American Transcendence

_{James J. Na
May 17, 2006
Foreign Policy

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Now that it is May, have Seattleites recovered from the Seahawks’ Super Bowl loss? May is also “Asian Pacific American History Month.” What does the Super Bowl have anything to do with this ethnic tokenism? Hines Ward, the Super Bowl most valuable player, of course! Ward’s saga made headlines after the Pittsburgh Steelers’ victory in February. It had the makings Read More ›

^{Yuri Mamchur
May 16, 2006
Foreign Policy

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I’m Not Illegal

_{Yuri Mamchur
May 16, 2006
Foreign Policy

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SEATTLE — As crowds of illegal immigrants march through America’s streets, I peer down at the protesters from my office here and wonder, “Why don’t I march with them?” Well, because I’m not illegal. In the last six years, while visiting this country and starting my new job with the free-market Discovery Institute, I have paid the U.S. government nearly Read More ›

^{William A. Dembski
May 16, 2006
Intelligent Design

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Mere Creation

_{William A. Dembski
May 16, 2006
Intelligent Design

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This extensive volume contains essays by numerous Discovery Fellows who presented at an early intelligent design conference at Biola University in 1996. As Henry F. Shaefer III explains in the forward, the conference was not a typical “creationist” event, as “virtually none of the conference participants were creationists of the sort one frequently reads about in the popular press” and Read More ›

^{Benjamin Wiker
August 12, 2002
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Moral Darwinism

_{Benjamin Wiker
August 12, 2002
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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In this book, Senior Discovery Institute Fellow Benjamin Wiker does a brilliant job of tracing the roots of hedonism. Insofar as traditional theists sense an underlying cause for the moral decline of Western culture, all roads lead to Epicurus and the train of thought he set in motion. For Epicurus, pleasure consisted in freedom from disturbance. For Epicurus, to allow Read More ›

^{Robert C. Koons, William Lane Craig, William A. Dembski and J.P. Moreland
April 9, 2014
Intelligent Design

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Naturalism

_{Robert C. Koons, William Lane Craig, William A. Dembski and J.P. Moreland
April 9, 2014
Intelligent Design

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This impressive volume contains critical essays on naturalism from the perspectives of theology, ethics, cosmology, ontology, and epistemology. Various Discovery Fellows make contributions including Robert C. Koons, J.P. Moreland, William Lane Craig, and William Dembski. Koons, a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, begins by noting that there is a simple correlation between existence and the requirement of Read More ›

^{David Klinghoffer
May 16, 2006
Religion and Civic Life

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Borders & the Bible

_{David Klinghoffer
May 16, 2006
Religion and Civic Life

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The Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph were compelled to live, sometimes uncomfortably, as immigrants in Egypt, as their descendants, the Israelites, would also. Is the Bible telling us that welcoming immigrants is a moral priority? The question, obviously, is highly relevant with the Senate resuming debate on immigration in the wake of President Bush’s Monday-night address. While the Left typically resists Read More ›

^{David Klinghoffer
May 16, 2006
Religion and Civic Life

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What the Scriptures Say About Immigration

_{David Klinghoffer
May 16, 2006
Religion and Civic Life

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As the current U.S. immigration policy clash—what to do about illegal aliens and insecure borders—heats up, many Americans have turned to scripture for guidance. Jewish scripture, for example, speaks repeatedly of the kindness due to the “stranger” and reminds us that the people of the Bible—the Hebrews—were once despised foreigners in an alien land, Egypt. Yet the Bible’s message isn’t Read More ›

^{Francis J. Beckwith
January 9, 2003
Academic Freedom, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Law, Darwinism, and Public Education

_{Francis J. Beckwith
January 9, 2003
Academic Freedom, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Legal scholar and former Discovery Fellow Francis J. Beckwith recounts the legal history of court battles over the teaching of biological origins. Though many thought that the landmark Supreme Court case Edwards v. Aguillard would permanently settle these questions by ruling creationism unconstitutional, Beckwith observes that intelligent design poses a new challenge to legal scholars. Beckwith, who has published about Read More ›

^{Richard Rahn
May 13, 2006
Economics

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Taxing Questions

_{Richard Rahn
May 13, 2006
Economics

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Do you think your taxes are too high or too low? Though I expect that well over 90 percent of you are thinking “too high,” many in the media and political class keep telling us taxes are too low. The left-leaning intelligentsia, in their arrogant smugness, claim we just don’t know what is good for us. Yet, they are the Read More ›