mathematics

^{Debra J. Saunders
November 14, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

Woke Math Won’t Deliver Equity

_{Debra J. Saunders
November 14, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

According to California’s draft “Mathematics Framework,” math is not just a “neutral discipline”; it also can be used to promote equity and “social justice.” Read More ›

^{Melissa Cain Travis
October 8, 2021
Intelligent Design}

Melissa Cain Travis on Science and the Mind of the Maker

_{Melissa Cain Travis
October 8, 2021
Intelligent Design}

What can science teach us about the mind of the maker of the universe? In particular, what can we learn from the remarkable correspondence between mathematics and the natural world? Read More ›

^{Evolution News
October 15, 2020
Intelligent Design}

Breakout Paper in Journal of Theoretical Biology Explicitly Supports Intelligent Design

_{Evolution News
October 15, 2020
Intelligent Design}

The Journal of Theoretical Biology has published an explicitly pro-intelligent design article, “Using statistical methods to model the fine-tuning of molecular machines and systems.” Let’s take a closer look at the contents. Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
October 14, 2020
Education}

Staggering Learning Loss

_{Keri D. Ingraham
October 14, 2020
Education}

Students fortunate enough to have their school move toward a hybrid learning model may begin to return to campus two days per week. However, many districts implementing a hybrid learning format are only allocating four days a week to some form of student learning. Why? Read More ›

Close-up of unrecognizable male scientist in shirt standing in dark room and gesturing hands while explaining his mathematical calculations during scientific conference, neon calculations on man and wall

^{David Klinghoffer
April 3, 2016
Intelligent Design}

For Darwin Advocates, Wistar Conference Remains a Pain in the Master Narrative

_{David Klinghoffer
April 3, 2016
Intelligent Design}

The 1966 Wistar Institute conference remains, fifty years later, a pain in the master narrative of Darwin advocates. According to their favored story, doubts about the evolutionary mechanism are the exclusive domain of, first of all, those seeking to uphold a particular interpretation of Genesis and, second, the scientifically ignorant. Today marks the anniversary of the conference’s opening, April 25 Read More ›

Asking for assistance, optimism and survivor desperation to contact the world conceptual idea with a message in a glass bottle with a cork washing away on sandy beach with the ocean in the background

^{Casey Luskin
March 1, 2016
Intelligent Design}

A Slightly Technical Introduction to Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
March 1, 2016
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent design — often called “ID” — is a scientific theory that holds that the emergence of some features of the universe and living things is best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. ID theorists argue that design can be inferred by studying the informational properties of natural objects to determine if they bear the type of information that in our experience arises from an intelligent cause. Proponents of neo-Darwinian evolution contend that the information in life arose via purposeless, blind, and unguided processes. ID proponents argue that this information arose via purposeful, intelligently guided processes. Both claims are scientifically testable using the standard methods of science. But ID theorists say that when we use the scientific method to explore nature, the evidence points away from unguided material causes, and reveals intelligent design. Read More ›

^{William A. Dembski
October 1, 1999
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 1, 1999
Intelligent Design}

In this popular treatment of intelligent design, Discovery Fellow William Dembski combines his Ph.D. in philosophy with his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago and his Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary to elucidate how the scientific theory of intelligent design interacts with his personal Christian faith. Read More ›

^{David Berlinski
March 1, 2002
Intelligent Design}

Einstein and Gödel

_{David Berlinski
March 1, 2002
Intelligent Design}

A picture taken in Princeton, New Jersey in August of 1950 shows Albert Einstein standing next to the Austrian logician, Kurt Gödel. Einstein is wearing baggy slacks and a rumpled shirt. His body sags. Dressed in a white linen suit, and wearing owlish spectacles, Gödel looks lean and almost elegant in comparison, the austerity of his expression softened by a Read More ›

3D rendering of abstract blocks of mathematical formulas located in the virtual space

^{Granville Sewell
August 30, 2000
Intelligent Design}

A Mathematician’s View of Evolution

_{Granville Sewell
August 30, 2000
Intelligent Design}

When Dr. Behe was at the University of Texas El Paso in May of 1997 to give an invited talk, I told him that I thought he would find more support for his ideas in mathematics, physics and computer science departments than in his own field. I know a good many mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists who, like me, are appalled that Darwin's explanation for the development of life is so widely accepted in the life sciences. Read More ›

^{William A. Dembski
July 1, 1999
Intelligent Design}

The Last Magic

_{William A. Dembski
July 1, 1999
Intelligent Design}

If mathematics is about finding solutions to well-defined problems, then philosophy is about finding problems in what previously we thought were well-settled solutions. Mark Steiner’s The Applicability of Mathematics As a Philosophical Problem mirrors both sides of this statement, admitting that mathematics is the key to solving problems in the physical sciences, but also asserting that this very applicability of Read More ›