Tag: Bayesian analysis
Can Science Find God? Stephen Meyer vs. Michael Shermer
Humans seem to be drawn in a certain direction toward truth and beauty. Is that an accident of nature?
When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?
Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence.
Considering the Fine-Tuning Argument from Probabilities
Many authors formulate the fine-tuning argument using probabilities and Bayesian analysis (e.g., Swinburne, Collins, Roberts, Barnes).
Fossil Friday: The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess
There was an abrupt origin, a burst of biological creativity, which is best explained by an infusion of new information from an intelligent agent.
Sex: Engineered for Success
Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system?