Tag: William Dembski
A “Natural” Adjustable Wrench? More Conversations with a Theistic Evolutionist
Somehow, without any calculation at all, we’re all certain that geological processes can’t make a wrench.
Return of the Christmas Pony – Robert Marks on Modeling Darwinian Evolution
Maybe evolution is just too complicated to model? Or maybe computer simulations have already provided a sufficient demonstration that evolution works as advertised?
Math, Computers, and Evolution: Robert Marks on Searches and Artificial Intelligence
Marks’s new book, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, makes an important but esoteric-sounding field accessible to the general reader.
Dembski and Wells’s The Design of Life: Advanced Online Curriculum Available Now!
Delve into the data surrounding the origin of life, specified and irreducible complexity, genetics, the fossil record, human origins, natural selection, and more.
Robert Marks on Computer Evolutionary Simulations, Science and Faith, the Limits of Artificial Intelligence, and More
You’ll enjoy his recent podcast conversation with UK interviewer Julian Charles of The Mind Renewed.
Top Ten Questions and Objections to Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics
An evolutionary program whose goal is to master chess will never evolve further and offer investment advice.
Are Methodological Naturalism and Philosophical Naturalism the Same? A Dissent
In a previous post, I argued that methodological naturalism is a reasonable and neutral working principle limiting everyday science to natural causes.
Evolutionary Informatics: Marks, Dembski, and Ewert Demonstrate the Limits of Darwinism
As the authors rigorously show, producing anything of significant complexity requires that knowledge of the outcomes be programmed into the search routines.
Peer-Reviewed Paper Successfully Measures Specified Complexity in Computer Images
“Is information being created when we snap a picture of Niagara Falls?”
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Paper Develops New Ways of Measuring Complex and Specified Information in Life
The “Game of Life” is a computer simulation that’s meant to mimic living systems.