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Search Results for: avida

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Sarah Chaffee
February 16, 2018, 12:00 PM

Education or Obfuscation? Avida in Science Class

You might think teaching about evolution in public schools is already about as misleading as it can be. Then, you find, it gets worse.

Evolution Icon Evolution
Winston Ewert
April 29, 2014, 4:38 AM

No, Avida Has Not Falsified Irreducible Complexity

Many critics have insisted that evolution can produce irreducibly complex structures, pointing notably to the example of Avida, a computer model demonstrated in a 2003 Nature paper.

Evolution Icon Evolution
Casey Luskin
December 31, 2009, 12:00 AM

Winston Ewert, William Dembski, and Robert Marks Publish Mainstream Scientific Paper Exposing Flaws in Avida Evolution Simulation

In 2003, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski, philosopher Robert Pennock and others co-published a Nature paper titled “The evolutionary origin of complex features” reporting results of a computer simulation of evolution dubbed “Avida.” Though publicly arguing that Avida refuted intelligent design by showing the evolution of irreducible complexity, their paper refused cite the work of Michael Behe or any other ID proponent. Now, Winston Ewert, William Dembski, and Robert Marks expose in a paper in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics why Lenski and Pennock’s “Avida” simulation fails to accurately model Darwinian evolution. Darwinian evolution has no prior knowledge about the search target, but Avida’s programmers have intelligently designed Avida by smuggling in “active information” Read More ›

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John G. West
December 22, 2022, 9:50 AM

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

The Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science.

Evolution Icon Evolution
William A. Dembski
June 30, 2022, 6:34 AM

Conservation of Information — The Idea

Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef.

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