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Abstract futuristic concept of spherical algorithm analysis. Big data. Quantum virtual cryptography. Business visualization of artificial intelligence. Blockchain.

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

Why Evolutionary Algorithms Cannot Generate Specified Complexity

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

While it's true that shaking out random scrabble pieces would render METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL highly improbable (and therefore complex), Dawkins's evolutionary algorithm renders that sequence certain and thereby removes its complexity. Read More ›

^{Michael J. Behe
June 1, 1999
Intelligent Design}

God … Sort Of

_{Michael J. Behe
June 1, 1999
Intelligent Design}

Paul Davies should need little introduction to readers of First Things. A theoretical physicist and prolific author, he won the 1995 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. As the title of the address he gave in receiving the award indicates (“Physics and the Mind of God” [First Things, August/September 1995]) he does not hesitate to think about the Deeper Meaning Read More ›

National Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, New Mexico

^{William A. Dembski
October 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Science and Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

En Español When the physics of Galileo and Newton displaced the physics of Aristotle, scientists tried to explain the world by discovering its deterministic natural laws. When the quantum physics of Bohr and Heisenberg in turn displaced the physics of Galileo and Newton, scientists realized they needed to supplement their deterministic natural laws by taking into account chance processes in Read More ›

^{William A. Dembski
August 10, 1998
Intelligent Design}

The Act of Creation

_{William A. Dembski
August 10, 1998
Intelligent Design}

For Homer the act of creating poetry is a divine gift, one that derives from an otherworldly source and is not ultimately reducible to this world. This conception of human creativity as a divine gift pervaded the ancient world, and was also evident among the Hebrews. In Exodus, for instance, we read that God filled the two artisans Bezaleel and Aholiab with wisdom so that they might complete the work of the tabernacle. Read More ›

Old industrial electronics switch cupboard

^{William A. Dembski
February 20, 1997
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information

_{William A. Dembski
February 20, 1997
Intelligent Design}

Abstract: For the scientific community intelligent design represents creationism's latest grasp at scientific legitimacy. Accordingly, intelligent design is viewed as yet another ill-conceived attempt by creationists to straightjacket science within a religious ideology. But in fact intelligent design can be formulated as a scientific theory having empirical consequences and devoid of religious commitments. Intelligent design can be unpacked as a theory of information. Within such a theory, information becomes a reliable indicator of design as well as a proper object for scientific investigation. In my paper I shall (1) show how information can be reliably detected and measured, and (2) formulate a conservation law that governs the origin and flow of information. My broad conclusion is that information is not reducible to natural causes, and that the origin of information is best sought in intelligent causes. Intelligent design thereby becomes a theory for detecting and measuring information, explaining its origin, and tracing its flow. Read More ›