Category Intelligent Design

Historical Backdrop Specified complexity is the legitimate offspring of the mathematical theory of information. You wouldn’t know that, however, from reading what’s said about it on the internet. Take the opening sentence of the Wikipedia article on specified complexity: “Specified…

The second edition of The Design Inference was released November 16, 2023 — 25 years after the first edition was originally published. My colleague and good friend Winston Ewert is a full co-author on this second edition. For the endorsements,…

I spoke yesterday at UTD — the University of Texas at Dallas — which has an attractive campus in Richardson, just north of Dallas. Allen Hainline, on behalf of a local Reasons to Believe chapter, invited me. Thanks go to…

A terrific conference just took place in Denton, Texas (June 1-3, 2023): Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, or CELS. Its aim was to inspire cross-disciplinary research between biology and engineering by bringing together biologist, engineers, and some fellow travelers…

Intelligent design begins with a seemingly innocuous question: Can objects, even if nothing is known about how they arose, exhibit features that reliably signal the action of an intelligent cause? To see what’s at stake, consider Mount Rushmore. The evidence…

1 Background Jason Rosenhouse wrote a book of over 90,000 word for Cambridge University Press, which was released in May 2022 and titled The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism. I wrote an 18,000-word review here on this blog that appeared in…

Book review by William A. Dembski of Jason Rosenhouse, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 310 pages.  1 Why a Guide? Intelligent design can credit at least some of its success to mathematics. Math has…