Tag: cryptography
The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs
Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification.
The Logic of Design Detection
Rational agents often detect the prior activity of other designing minds by the character of the effects they leave behind.
What Got My Attention about Intelligent Design
Bill Dembski pointed out that design detection, far from being an esoteric inference, lay in fact at the center of many normal human inquiries and activities.
Answering Critiques of Specification in William Dembski’s Design Filter
William Dembski accurately formalized a filter we use so often that we’re like fish in the sea.
What Is Intelligent Design? A Thomistic Perspective
What is it, metaphysically one might say, that distinguishes design in the ID sense from ubiquitous teleological design, in a Thomistic sense?