Intelligent Design and Atheism are logically consistent
Many people think that Intelligent Design necessarily infers the existence of God. Therefore, it must count as a religious doctrine since it is necessarily connected to an essential article of all...
View ArticleIntelligent Design goes beyond information
Whenever we Intelligent Design proponents talk about ID, "information" is a word mentioned quite often. Information is the key to ID, so it seems. But, how just how much does information explain in...
View ArticleIntelligent Design and Christology
Or, what does Jesus mean when he says he is the Truth?In John 14:6 Jesus identifies himself with the truth. Is Jesus saying he is a truth, one of many truths? Is he saying that he is leading us to an...
View ArticleCan consciousness be an explanation for ID?
Consciousness is the great mystery of the scientific age. How can the 3rd person world of science account for the 1st person account of that world? Try as they might, no philosopher or scientist has...
View ArticleIntelligent Design Links Epistemology to Ontology (Part 2)
Part 1 pointed out that while Dr. Searle's Chinese Room Argument may successfully preserve a non-mechanical intuition of intelligence, it does so at the cost of eliminating our ability to detect other...
View ArticleIdeal Intelligent Design Conference
johnnyb asked over at UD to make proposals for a mid-level ID conference. Here is my proposal: 1. Practical, useful applications of ID to hard domains, and hard aspects of other domains: engineering,...
View ArticleIntelligent Design makes stock market predictions
The theory behind Intelligent Design is precisely defined enough for a conference to demarcate Intelligent...
View ArticleIntelligent Design is incompatible with certain forms of determinism
I've addressed elsewhere whether deterministic systems, such as Neoplatonism, are consistent with ID. However, in that article, the assumption is the "necessity" that is eliminated from our causal...
View ArticleHow ID sheds light on the classic free will dilemma
Copied over from my original posting at Uncommon Descent.http://www.uncommondescent.com/philosophy/how-id-sheds-light-on-the-classic-free-will-dilemma/The standard argument against free will is that it...
View ArticleIntelligent Design is a HORRIBLE apologetic!
johnnyb at UD makes the pertinent point that ID is not an apologetic, and should not be critiqued as if it...
View ArticleRome's true relationship to ID and evolution
Rome holds a tentative position regarding an old earth, common ancestry (through not a continuum between humans and animals), etc. However, the popes (JP II and Pius XII) have been very clear in their...
View ArticleWhy environmentalism needs Intelligent Design, and Intelligent Design implies...
The big implication of ID is that human beings, as intelligent agents, are completely unique out of all the other created things on earth. They are the only beings exhibiting the ability to create...
View ArticleWhat does the Bible mean by "Natural"?
Some think the biblical language about homosexuality being unnatural is merely referring to cultural norms. However, that is not the case:The ancient worldview is that there is a moral order to...
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Materialism and human rights
Recently an MIT researcher argued robots may gain legal rights:http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/09/04/2034225/social-robots-may-gain-legal-rights-says-mit-researcherThe arguments for why this...
View ArticleIs Vitalism an alternative explanation to Intelligent Design?
Dr. Nagel's claims that while ID effectively shows the inadequacy of chance and necessity to explain biological organisms and processes, intelligent agency is not the only alternative and is less...
View ArticleHow can Google hire charlatan Kurzweil?!?
In response to:http://www.thebestschools.org/bestschoolsblog/2013/03/12/ray-kurzweils-theory-human-mind-works-others-and-fairness-worse/Why Ray Kurzweil’s theory about how the human mind works is not...
View ArticleYou are not your brain
Imagine someone makes an exact replica of your brain. Now there are two physical instances of your brain in existence with the exact same inputs and outputs. Which one is you? Why, the original of...
View ArticleIntelligent Agents Are Immortal
One surprising implication of Intelligent Design theory is that intelligent agents must be immortal.First, let's define immortality. Immortality is not the same as indestructible. Something may be...
View ArticleWhy Evolution is Completely False
The two tenets of evolution are Darwinism and common descent.A. The only scientifically accepted mechanism of evolution, Darwinism, is mathematically impossible. Only some form of continuous...
View ArticlePrinciple of Relative Human Efficiency (Reason #324 why Evolution is false)
The scientists that are attempting to replicate evolutionary processes are dozens, even hundreds of *orders of magnitude* more efficient than undirected natural processes. If we can split the atom and...
View ArticleIntelligent Design requires Libertarian Free Will
1. Assume an intelligent agent has no free will, all products of an intelligent agent are necessary.2. Complex specified information is measured by the negative log of the probability of event E...
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What does ID look like?
A question I've had for awhile: we know we can detect ID, but what does it look like? In particular, how does a history of events look different if it is intelligently designed vs C&N?A history of...
View ArticleDARPA using ID theory for security research, they don't know it
Blog link: http://appliedintelligentdesign.blogspot.com/2014/01/darpa-using-id-theory-for-security.html'The U.S. Department of Defense may have found a new way to scan millions of lines of software...
View ArticleIntelligent agent detection kit
I've finished a small app and analysis code that uses ID theory to differentiate between human and AI players in a game. The players are engaged in a simple turn based tournament similar to battle...
View ArticleThe pragmatic implication of ID for the abortion debate
For the completely amoral, who only care about material effectiveness and efficiency, and have no regard for the moral value of human life, ID is very relevant.These people care only about utility, and...
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