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Who’s Got the Magic? A Review of Robert Pennock’s “The Tower of Babel”
review of Robert Pennock’s book “The Tower of Babel.” In criticizing Phillip Johnson’s “intelligent design creationism,” Robert Pennock raises...
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Cultural Context Yet Again
I am always torn when it comes to criticism of my thinking. On the one hand, my inclination is...
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Disbelieving Darwin and Feeling No Shame
Science, we are told, is tentative. And given the history of science, there is every reason for science to...
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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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Arguing for Evolution
On August 11, 1999, the Kansas State Board of Education voted six-to-four to remove references to cosmology and evolution...
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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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Review of John Haught’s “God After Darwin”
Review ofJohn F. Haught, God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999, 221 pp., $25.00,...
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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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Review of Kenneth Miller’s “Finding Darwin’s God”
I have only met Ken Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University, the once. This was when we...