specified complexity

Tuskless female elephant with trunk in mouth

^{Andrew McDiarmid and Michael J. Behe
August 22, 2022}

Michael Behe: Evolution, Devolution, Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid and Michael J. Behe
August 22, 2022}

^{Stephen C. Meyer
August 3, 2022}

Stephen Meyer: One God or Many Universes?

_{Stephen C. Meyer
August 3, 2022}

Big Bang Explosion - Time Warp In Universe - Contain 3d Rendering

^{Brian Miller
March 24, 2022}

Physicist Brian Miller Answers the Big Bang Evaders

_{Brian Miller
March 24, 2022}

On this ID the Future, physicist Brian Miller looks at various attempts to evade the mounting evidence that the universe had a beginning, a Big Bang. Read More ›

^{Evolution News
September 1, 2020
Intelligent Design}

Design Gets Down and Dirty — Complex Specified Information in Electric Mud

_{Evolution News
September 1, 2020
Intelligent Design}

Bacteria that conduct electricity with cables may be involved in everything from cleansing the oceans and enriching the soil to guarding our own teeth. Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer and Douglas Axe
October 7, 2015
Intelligent Design}

The Information Enigma

_{Stephen C. Meyer and Douglas Axe
October 7, 2015
Intelligent Design}

Information drives the development of life. But what is the source of that information? Could it have been produced by an unguided Darwinian process? Or did it require intelligent design? The Information Enigma is a fascinating 21-minute documentary that probes the mystery of biological information, the challenge it poses to orthodox Darwinian theory, and the reason it points to intelligent Read More ›

^{William A. Dembski
February 5, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design: A Brief Introduction

_{William A. Dembski
February 5, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent design (ID) studies patterns in nature that are best explained as the result of intelligence. Is that radio signal from outer space just random noise or the result of an alien intelligence? Is that chunk of rock just a random chunk of rock or an arrowhead? Is Mount Rushmore the result of wind and erosion or the creative act of an artist? We ask such questions all the time, and we think we can give good answers to them. Read More ›

^{Casey Luskin
October 4, 2007
Intelligent Design}

A Response to Dr. Dawkins’ “The Information Challenge”

_{Casey Luskin
October 4, 2007
Intelligent Design}

In September, 2007, I posted a link to a YouTube video where Richard Dawkins was asked to explain the origin of genetic information, according to Darwinism. I also posted a link to Dawkins’ rebuttal to the video, where he purports to explain the origin of genetic information according to Darwinian evolution. The question posed to Dawkins was, “Can you give Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
June 30, 2007
Intelligent Design}

DNA and the Origin of Life

_{Stephen C. Meyer
June 30, 2007
Intelligent Design}

This article appears in the peer-reviewed* volume Darwinism, Design, and Public Education published with Michigan State University Press. Stephen C. Meyer contends that intelligent design provides a better explanation than competing chemical evolutionary models for the origin of the information present in large biomacromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins. Meyer shows that the term information as applied to DNA connotes not only improbability or complexity but also specificity of function. He then argues that neither chance nor necessity, nor the combination of the two, can explain the origin of information starting from purely physical-chemical antecedents. Instead, he argues that our knowledge of the causal powers of both natural entities and intelligent agency suggests intelligent design as the best explanation for the origin of the information necessary to build a cell in the first place. Read More ›

Plants background with biochemistry structure.

^{Phillip E. Johnson
February 19, 2007
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design in Biology

_{Phillip E. Johnson
February 19, 2007
Intelligent Design}

The individuals who make up the Intelligent Design Movement (IDM) came together in the aftermath of the publication of my book Darwin on Trial (Regnery 1991, IVP 1993). The defining purpose of the IDM is to advance the argument that neo-Darwinism has failed to explain the origin of the highly complex information systems and structures of living organisms, from the Read More ›

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

No Free Lunch

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

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...