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Intelligent Design is not Optimal Design
I was recently on an NPR program with skeptic Michael Shermer and paleontologist Donald Prothero to discuss intelligent design....
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Another Way to Detect Design
In The Design Inference (Cambridge, 1998) I argue that specified complexity is a reliable empirical marker of intelligent design....
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Alchemy and the Emergence of Complex Systems
INTRODUCTION Alchemy has gone the way of the dodo, or has it? On any word analogies test, pairing alchemy...
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Why Evolutionary Algorithms Cannot Generate Specified Complexity
In my last piece for Metanexus, I asserted that evolutionary algorithms cannot generate specified complexity and motivated this assertion...
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Explaining Specified Complexity
In his recent book The Fifth Miracle, Paul Davies suggests that any laws capable of explaining the origin of...
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Review of David F. Noble’s “The Religion of Technology”
Having demonstrated that the ambiguous modern scientific and technological enterprise has its origin in something as ignoble as religion,...
