Tag: specified complexity
Measuring Surprise — A Frontier of Design Theory
The carvings look sustained (there are many of them) and deliberate, unlike creases created by splitting and pitting of surfaces over ages.
BIO-Complexity Article Offers an Objective Method for Weighing Darwinian Explanations
Skeptics of evolutionary theory have argued that proposed Darwinian processes don’t rise to the level of plausible detailed explanations for the emergence of complex life.
Robert Marks: Randomness and the Enigma of Creativity
Only a freely acting, designing agent resolves the mystery. Only such an agent creates, truly, ex nihilo.
Giraffe Weekend: Can Sexual Selection Save This Evolutionary Icon?
Geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig concludes that, “Sexual selection is not the cause of the long-necked giraffe.”
Soccer and Human Exceptionalism
About a billion people watched the final match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. That’s around 1/7th of the world’s population.