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I was wondering what had happened to Uncommon Descent’s owner, lawyer Barry Arrington. Having bought the blog from “Intelligent Design” theorist* William Dembski, he established a reputatio...

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I’ve been commenting at Uncommon Descent recently, initially because Upright Biped had reappeared there promoting his semiotic theory and I felt he wasn’t getting the response he needed. Upri...

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Here is one of the more essays I wrote based on discussions I’ve had hereon and on other sites like Pandas Thumb. I think this is one of the more appropriate essays for discussions here and it ...

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Joe G has been looking into the posts here at TSZ. Apparently this inspired him to get into a series of outbursts of rage. Well, maybe not. Looking at his blog rage seems to be his normal state. ...

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Astronaut Charles Duke became a Christian after he returned to Earth after being the youngest man to ever walk on the moon and after finding himself in a troubled marriage and problems with alcoh...

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David Nemati and Eric Holloway, “Expected Algorithmic Specified Complexity.” Bio-Complexity 2019 (2):1-10. doi:10.5048/BIO-C.2019.2. Part 1: Stark Incompetence Part 2: The Old Switcheroo Part...

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This offers the simplest “neutral” colloquial mixture of “design” and “evolution” that I’ve seen in a long time. The site is no longer maintained, but the language persists. “As a...

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The debate not only between Darwinists vs ID continues: Are viruses dead or alive? If viruses are dead, what makes them “animated”? If viruses are alive,  are they another life form?  

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Lehigh University biochemist and IDT spokesperson Dr. Michael Behe was recently asked by the Discovery Institute (DI) to write about covid-19. The following is to be found among what he wrote: �...

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I thought some of you might be interested to know that a paper of mine was recently published in BIO-Complexity – “Measuring Active Information in Biological Systems.” The goal of the paper...

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As the COVID 19 hysteria is unfolding almost all over the world, many are asking the question: Where did the viruses come from? ID proponents, like Michael Behe, have gone on record saying that v...

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A thread for ID proponents to explain their alternative theory for biological phenomena. Allan Miller has written an article on sex, proposing an evolutionary explanation for why almost all Eukar...

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Another deadly virus is just around the corner: coronavirus, as predicted by evolution… Since it was predicted, what had been done to prevent it? We have all sorts of experts visiting TSZ, such...

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The biggest news of this week for the “conversation” this blog is in some small way a part of will likely be the discussion between Drs. Michael Behe and S. Joshua Swamidass in Texas. The ans...

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In his recent video Michael Behe explains the reasons for his acceptance of common descent. Do you find it confusing? Most members of the Discovery Institute find the idea of common descent lacki...

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Not long ago in a comment here, I posted a short version of definitions involving the Discovery Institute’s “Intelligent Design” (ID) paradigm, hypothesis, movement, theory, inference, poli...

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David Nemati and Eric Holloway, “Expected Algorithmic Specified Complexity.” Bio-Complexity 2019 (2):1-10. doi:10.5048/BIO-C.2019.2. Editor: William Basener. Editor-in-Chief: Robert J. Marks...

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… in regard to his article “Expected Algorithmic Specified Complexity” Question 1. Is your definition of algorithmic specified complexity precisely equivalent to the definition given by Ewe...

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David Nemati and Eric Holloway, “Expected Algorithmic Specified Complexity.” Bio-Complexity 2019 (2):1-10. doi:10.5048/BIO-C.2019.2. Editor: William Basener. Editor-in-Chief: Robert J. Marks...

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It boggles my mind when I read Darwinian propaganda like this: “These sharks have evolved to walk on land—and they did it quickly” here Or this Science Alert: “Rapid Evolution Made These ...

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I was short with Joe Felsenstein in the comments section of “Stark Incompetence,” a post in which I address, well, um, the stark incompetence on display in a recent publication of Eric Hollow...

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David Nemati and Eric Holloway, “Expected Algorithmic Specified Complexity.” Bio-Complexity 2019 (2):1-10. doi:10.5048/BIO-C.2019.2. Editor: William Basener. Editor-in-Chief: Robert J. Marks...

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… proved without reference to infinity and the empty string. Some readers have objected to my simple proof that computable transformation of a binary string can result in an infinite increase o...

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Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, by Robert J. Marks II, the “Charles Darwin of Intelligent Design”; William A. Dembski, the “Isaac Newton of Information Theory”; and Winston E...

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For The Panda’s Thumb’s After the Bar Closes thread on Uncommon Descent, I created a graph of the number of unique commentators at UD: Here, for each day from Apr 2005 until Nov 2019, I gave ...

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This past Friday, I bumped into Dr. Michael Behe, and again on Saturday, along with Drs. Brian Miller (DI), Research Coordinator CSC, and Robert Larmer (UNB), currently President of the Canadian ...

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He sure made it sound that way. I’m guessing he actually doesn’t. It may be just a bluff or a semantic game. And then, given Paul Nelson seems to be a man who enjoys good jokes, we’ll laugh...

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At last? Back in 2007, I predicted that the idea of “Intelligent Design” would soon fade into obscurity. I wrote: My initial assessment of ID in my earliest encounter with an ID proponent* wa...

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I’ll intervene on this conversation started by S. Joshua Swamidass as my guess is he’s going to mangle terms & then claim mastery over them, as he has done in the past on the topic of ‘meth...

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According to Joshua Swamidass Michael Behe and him have a lot in common… Swamidass has even publicly defended Behe on his blog by demanding a fair hearing. Not only that, Swamidass agrees with ...

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Essentially, there are 2 types of cloning… Biological cloning leading to clones such as identical twins who share exactly the same DNA. Or artificial, genetically engineered cloning leading to ...

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This article might help some people make better sense of what goes on around here. https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult Unarguably, young earth...

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Affirming the Consequent is a logical fallacy that takes a known true statement and invalidly concludes its converse : If Bill Gates owns Fort Knox, then Bill Gates is rich. Bill Gates is … Co...

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The online intelligent-design journal, BIO-Complexity (Robert J. Marks II, editor-in-chief; Douglas Axe, managing editor), has revised at least one of its published articles without giving any in...

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Evolution of KRAB Zinc Finger Proteins vs. the Law of Large Numbers There are patterns in biology that violate the law of large numbers, and thus suggests Intelligent Design or at the very least ...

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Darwinists are not much different than their God-fearing counterparts when it comes to their belief system. Theists believe in the omnipotent God, or Creator and yet Darwinists believe in the omn...

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TSZ member Eric Holloway is the latest rising star of the “Intelligent Design” movement. Such a meteoric rise is bound to attract attention and it has indeed caught the eye of veteran biologi...

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As most TSZ readers already know, Dr. Lenski has been growing bacteria for 31 years now… Unlike the 99.99% of evolutionary biologist, who spend most … Continue reading →

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As some already are aware many, even the most biased Darwinists, have abandoned their belief in Darwinism, especially recently… So, one might rightly ask: Why do we still need to review Behe’...

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Here are the posts and comments which Uncommon Descent received for each month from Apr 2005 until Dec 2018. The area of the circles is proportional to the number of views those posts gathered un...

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In the retrospect of the publicity over Behe’s Devolution book, which exposes Darwinian evolution as the devourer rather than the builder of novelty in life systems, the sophisticated arithmeti...

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I have always been perplexed as to why people would want to celebrate Darwin’s day…What has Darwins really accomplished? Was he a savior or enslavor? Here is what Richard Dawkins wrote about ...

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Every few years the world of the supporters of Intelligent Design becomes ecstatic when the founding father of their thought liberating movement – Dr. Michael Behe – publishes a new book agai...

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Further to the OP Munging ID it seems that there is still a significant amount of confusion as to whether ID could be, or even is, compatible with common descent… Moreover, Mike Behe has been q...

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This OP may change over time. But for now… Devolution Rejecting common descent Failure to address how designs are actualized Materialism and Naturalism “Devolution” is evolution. Stop tryin...

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This theme has been on my mind for a long time and although I was going to do an OP on the enzyme disillusion (some experts here think they know all there is to know about how enzymes work) I …...

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Recently over at PS, IDist Eric Michael Holloway wrote the following to describe himself & why he accepts/believes in IDT: “we software engineers find ID so obvious.” (https://discourse.peace...

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If Darwinism fails then supernatural causes are back on the table and should be included in science. I do not think there can be a science of the supernatural. I do not think that if Darwinism fa...

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I have been thinking about the highlights of the year 2018 especially about which idea or claim really astonished me the most in its lack of logic, absurdity or it itself being an oxymoron… Whi...

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Back in 2016, William Dembski officially ‘retired’ from ‘Intelligent Design’ theory & the IDM. He wrote that “the camaraderie I once experienced with colleagues and friends in the movem...

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