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Critique of Intelligent Design
Evolution vs. Creationism
The Art of ID Stuntmen
Faith vs Reason
Anthropic Principle
Autopsy of the Bible code
Science and Religion
Historical Notes
Counter-Apologetics
Serious Notions with a Smile
Miscellaneous
Letter Serial Correlation
Mark Perakh's Web Site
Index of Titles
Lying for Jesus?
"
Dances With Popper": An Examination of Dembski's Claims on Testability
"
Intelligent Design": Religion Masquerading as Science
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i>Expelled: Now with added anti-Semitism
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i>Expelled bombs after its enthusiastic debut in Ames, Iowa
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i>Expelled producers accused of copyright infringement
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i>Non Sequitur in five parts
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9+ Evidences for Macroevolution
A
Blood Libel on Our Civilization
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book list for evolutionists
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brief look at two comments on one ID - Creationist site
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Broom that sweeps litter in
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Consistent Inconsistency
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Crusade of Arrogance
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few more words about a creationist's Review of
WIDF
Anthology
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fin is a limb is a wing
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Free Lunch in a Mousetrap
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History of the Intelligent Design Movement
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lawyer of high standing writes to Pivar
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List of Some Problematic Issues
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Lonely Champion of Tolerance
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Lost Chance
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Masterpiece Chockfull of Inconsistencies
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Militant Dilettante in Judgment of Science
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Nation, Great, Mighty, and Populous?
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Philosophical Premise of 'Naturalism'?
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Presentation Without Arguments
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Response to Berlinski
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Review of:
The Bible Code II
by Michael Drosnin
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statistical critique of the Witztum
et al
paper.
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Tale of Two Citations
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test of eponyms and sexual sacral initiation in classical Jewish culture
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time to gather stones
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Word About Intelligent Design Creationism
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biogenesis: How plausible are the current models
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bout heresy in science - again
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dditional critical remarks in regard to D. Witztum, E. Rips, and Y. Rosenberg "code" related publications
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gainst the Free Will Defense
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n account of how we detect design
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nn Coulter and Charles Darwin. Coultergeist
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nthropic Design: Does the Cosmos Show Evidence of Purpose?
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nthropic Reasoning and the Contemporary Design Argument in Astrophysics: A Reply to Robert Klee
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pplication of the Letter Serial Correlation Test to the Voynich Manuscript. Part 1: Experimental Data
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pplication of the Letter Serial Correlation Test to the Voynich Manuscript: Part 2: Discussion of Experimental Data and Possible Interpretation of Manuscript's Nature
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rguments out of context: Analyzing a rhetorical trick used by William Dembski
A
ssassinations Foretold in Moby Dick!
A
ttacks on philosophy by scientists
B
ackground to "Evolution in (Brownian) space: a model for the origin of the bacterial flagellum."
B
ehe's Dreadful New Book: A Review of "The Edge of Evolution"
B
embi Babelmandebski's view from 2014 - the 450th anniversary of Galileo's birth
B
en Stein: Front Man for Creationism's Manufactroversy
B
erlinski and the windmill
B
erlinski's Anti-Scientific Scandal
B
etter late than never
B
eyond suboptimality: Why irreducible complexity does not imply intelligent design
B
ill Dembski and the case of the unsupported assertion
B
logging the Dover Trial
B
olus of nonsense
B
ring On the Chiquitas!
B
'Tsel HaTorah
B
uckingham seesaws on the stand
B
ush, the Flu and Evolution
C
an biology do better than faith?
C
an you hear me NOW?
C
asey Defines Creationism
C
asey Luskin abuses what little credibility he has
C
aught in their own Wedge
C
hallenging the Challenge
C
hocolate Philosophy
C
lint Is Dead, Long Live Clint
C
losing argument
C
lotted rot for rotten clots
C
omments on active information
C
onclusion
C
onfronted with critique, Schroeder lost voice
C
ooling of the universe
C
ordova Steps In It
C
oulter mangles Dover case
C
reating a Martyr: The Sternberg Saga Continues
C
reationism and Intelligent Design
C
reationism/ID: A Short Legal History
C
reationism's Holy Grail: The Intelligent Design of a Peer-Reviewed Paper
C
reationist amorality
C
reationists for genocide
C
reationists, Hitler and Evolution
C
reations
C
reative Ideas of IDists as reviewers
C
ritique of Dembski
C
ritique of the Kuzari Argument
C
ryptic Ichthus
D
eception by Design: The Intelligent Design Movement in America
D
efending science education against intelligent design: a call to action
D
efining complexity
D
embski "displaces Darwinism" mathematically -- or does he?
D
embski as the David Seville of Information Theory: Now, That's a Video to Look Forward To
D
embski goes mathematical
D
embski weasels out
D
embski, decoherence and the brain
D
embski, secret handshakes and Darwinian theory
D
embski's and Wells's shenanigans: Just a reminder
D
embski's continuing contradictions
D
embski's Curious Incompetence With Quotations
D
embski's Profound Lack of Comprehension of Information Theory
D
epartment Position on Evolution and "Intelligent Design"
D
esign detectives fooled by urban legend
D
esperately Dissing Avida
D
esperately Evading the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design: A Review of Dembski's
The Design Revolution
D
etecting design: Specification versus Likelihood
D
I—Expelled for Plagiarism
D
ino Blood Redux
D
iscovery Institute tries to "swift-boat" Judge Jones
D
isinformation Theory
D
istinguishing rationalization from logic
D
ivine Farce: A Scientific / Philosophic Romp Through Intelligent Design
D
o hidden messages in the Bible prove it was written by an all-powerful God?
D
o the ELS in the Bible indeed spell what they have been claimed to spell?
D
o we need God to explain Jewish survival?
D
oes science unfairly rule out supernatural hypotheses?
D
r. Craig's Unsupported Premise
D
r. Dembski's Compass
D
r. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist
D
reaming Up...
D
ueling Blurbs: Collins vs. Coulter
E
arliest Semitic Text Revealed In Egyptian Pyramid Inscription
E
instein and Darwin: A tale of two theories
E
instein letter dismissing 'childish' religion sells for 200,000 pounds
E
l Pais: Lo que Darwin no sabía"What Darwin Didn't Know"
E
nterprising science needs naturalism
E
quidistant Letter Sequences in Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
E
rrors not corrected for three years point to incompetence
E
vidence and exasperation
E
vidence from Biochemical Pathways in Favor of Unfinished Evolution rather than Intelligent Design
E
vidence that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong?
E
volution in (Brownian) space: a model for the origin of the bacterial flagellum
E
volution of IC: Evolution of Hormone-Receptor Complexity
E
volution on the big screen
E
volution Sunday February 11, 2007
E
volution: God as Genetic Engineer
E
volving Immunity
E
volving Robotspeak
E
xpelled Exposed
E
xpelled!
E
xpert Report under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26
E
xplaining the Unclear by the Incomprehensible
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ixing the Mind
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lagella -- real and fictional
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lew, Schroeder, Varghese: What a company!
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lunked, Not Expelled: Gaming the Movie Ratings
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orrest Mims: 'crazy kook', says Pianka
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ourteen steps on the stairwell to hell
F
rancis Collins and the God of the Gaps
F
ree Noodle Soup
G
entiles, Rabbis and Texts
G
enuine Science Versus Dembski's "Z-Factors"
G
eorge Gilder, Metaphysic
G
eorge Gilder's
a priori
Science
G
etting away with "heresy"
G
imme that Old Pharisee Religion
G
od and the Explanatory Filter
G
od: A short history with a cognitive explanation of the concept
G
rand Designs and Facile Analogies
G
ross not satisfied with Collins' perspective on ID
H
äggström: Uniform Distribution Is a Model Assumption
H
arun Yahya and Holocaust Revisionism
H
arun Yahya and Islamic Creationism
H
arun Yahya Retreats to Miracles
H
arun Yahya: An Invitation to Dogmatism
H
as Darwin met his match in Berlinski?
H
as Science Found God?
H
ow a 'just so' story turns into just 'so?'-- HIV and the failures of Intelligent Design
H
ow Intelligent Design advocates turn the sordid lessons from Soviet and Nazi history upside down
H
ow West got Lost
I
an Stewart: Entropy vs. disorder and gravitics vs. thermodynamics
I
con of Obfuscation
I
conoclasts of Evolution: Haeckel, Behe, Wells & the Ontogeny of a Fraud
I
cons of Evolution?: Why much of what Jonathan Wells writes about evolution is wrong
I
D and Assault
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D and evolution: Where "Purposeful arrangement of parts" collide
I
D floats a lead-lined trial balloon
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D for faithful, evolution for scientists
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Dists are from Mars...
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D's irreducible inconsistency revisited
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mprobable Probabilities
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n Dover suit, a day to sweat
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ncompatible Magisteria
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nformation theory, evolutionary computation, and Dembski's "complex specified information"
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ntelligent Design and Probability Reasoning
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ntelligent Design and Statistics: A Troubled Alliance
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ntelligent Design belittles God
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ntelligent Design Has No Place in the Science Curriculum
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ntelligent Design, Science Education, and Public Reason
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ntelligent Design: A blind alley
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ntelligent Design: The New Stealth Creationism
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ntelligent design? Show me the science
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ntelligent design's plea for help
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owa Citizens for Science Press Release on Gonzalez Case
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owa School Board Ousts Intelligent Design
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rreducible Complexity Demystified
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rreducible Contradiction
I
s intelligent design science or religion? Nova chronicles the legal battle to settle the status of a new assault on evolution in a two-hour
I
s the war between science and religion over?
I
SSR Statement on the Concept of Intelligent Design
J
esus as the Son of Man
J
udaic sources on the attitude towards gentiles
J
ump-Starting a Cellular World: Investigating the Origin of Life, from Soup to Networks
J
ust so stories
K
itzmiller Decision: Plaintiffs Prevail
K
itzmiller et al versus Dover Area School District
L
etter Serial Correlation in additional languages and various types of text Part 1: Experimental Data
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etter Serial Correlation in additional languages and various types of text Part 2: Discussion of Experimental data
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etter serial correlation points to the common descent of natural languages
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etter to My Rabbi
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etter to the International Journal of Cardiology
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ife on Mars? The real lesson from Lowell
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ook, ma! I can quote-mine historians too!
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uskin and the ID movement on immunology: immune to evidence
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uskin has lost it (on Altenberg)
L
uskin: Humans did evolve
M
acroevolution FAQ updated
M
ark Perakh's web site
M
edicine in the Babylonian Talmud
M
eyer's Hopeless Monster
M
ichael Behe Takes Another Turn as Expert
M
irecki affair
M
issing The Wrist
M
oonshine: Why the Peppered Moth Remains an Icon of Evolution
M
ore about "heresy" in science
M
ore on Signature in the Cell
M
ustafa Akyol and Friends in Kansas
N
ancy Pearcey: The Creationists' Miss Information
N
atural Explanations for the Anthropic Coincidences
N
ew Book Is Available
N
ew Trouble for Wells's "Icon of Anti-Evolution #1"...
N
o supernatural causes
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onsensical statements?
N
ot a Free Lunch But a Box of Chocolates
N
ot a Very Big Bang about Genesis
N
ot a Very New Look
N
ote to meteorologists: You're next
N
ow in the "Do As We Say, Not As We Do" Dept.
O
bserved Instances of Speciation
O
f Frauds and Fingerprints
O
f Hare and Hyrax, of Torah and Science
O
f Pharaohs and Dates: Critical remarks on the dating and the historicity of the Exodus from Egypt
O
h No! I’ve Seen the Impossible! My Eyes!
O
lle, Tom, and "Active Information"
O
n Dembski's Law of Conservation of Information
O
n Orthodox discourse
O
n the beach with Stephen Jay
O
rganismal size over evolutionary time is a constrained stochastic property
O
rganisms that Look Designed
O
rigin of the Novel Species Noodleous doubleous: Evidence for Intelligent Design
O
rigin of the specious
O
rthodox Judaism: does it have a case?
P
andas and Part Three
P
atience and Absurdity: How to Deal with Intelligent Design Creationism
P
atsy Jindal
P
aul Davies:
Emergentist vs. Reductionist
P
eer review
P
ennock's Dover response
P
hilosopher Ruse as an entertainer
P
lantinga's Basic Belief: Not Quite Basic
P
ondering the spiritual contradictions of intelligent design
P
rior Probabilities and Confirmation Theory: A Problem with the Fine-Tuning Argument
P
rivates by Satan
P
robability, Statistics, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
P
rofessor Jerry Coyne addresses Michael Behe's reply to Coyne's review of Behe's new book
P
rohibition to Think
P
roject Steve and the Appeal to Authority
P
roject Steve: n > 800
P
urim 1946? Not Exactly
P
Z Myers is such a LIAR!
R
eason and Common Ground: A Response to The Creationists' "Neutrality" Argument
R
einventing the wheel
R
eligion and skepticism: can (and should!) skeptics challenge religion?
R
eligious Freedom And Other Crimes Against Humanity
R
ep. Rush Holt: Intelligent Design: It's Not Even Wrong
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eply to a Creationist
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eport on the 2005 Mega Creation Conference
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esponse to Dembski's Accusations
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esponse to Rabbi Segal
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esponse to slanderers
R
esponse? What Response?: How Dembski has avoided addressing my arguments
R
ev. Ridiculous doesn't speak well for intelligent design
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eview of
The Privileged Planet
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eview of WA Dembski
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eview: The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery
S
cience and Non-Science: An Epistemological Conflict
S
cience education and attitudes toward evolution and related issues: A survey of university students
S
cience Equals Murder
S
cience In the Eyes Of a Scientist
S
cientists Discover Parallel Codes In Genes
S
cientists Respond to the Orchestrated Assault of IDists on Professor Gross
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cientists vs. Intelligent Design
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cientists, sex mark Day 10
S
econdary Addiction Part II: Ann Coulter on Evolution
S
econdary Addiction Part III: Ann Coulter on Evolution
S
econdary Addiction: Ann Coulter on Evolution
S
eeing and Believing
S
ETI and Intelligent Design
S
ewell's thermodynamic failure
S
hermer and Dembski in Bridgewater
S
hould We "Teach the Controversy"?
S
how Me Proof
S
imple Halachic observations and Jewish universalism
S
olving the Bible Code Puzzle
S
ome Bible-code related experiments and discussions
S
ome remarks in regard to D. Witztum's writings concerning the "code" in the book of Genesis
S
ome remarks regarding comparative morality
S
ome Thoughts on Elliot N. Dorff,
To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics
(Philadelphia: JPS, 2002)
S
omething rotten in Denmark?
S
peech by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III to the Anti-Defamation League
S
pelling the End of Grant Jeffrey's "Jesus Codes"
S
petner and Biological Information
S
tate of the University Address
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tephen Meyer's Bogus Information Theory
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teve Fuller and The Hidden Agenda of Social Constructivism
S
teve Fuller shows us what he's made of
S
trange Bedfellows: Science, Politics and Religion
S
tudy of Letter Serial Correlation (LSC) in some Hebrew, Aramaic, Russian, and English texts Part 1. Measurements and calculations
S
tudy of Letter Serial Correlation (LSC) in some Hebrew, Aramaic, Russian, and English texts Part 2. Experimental results - LSC in randomized texts
S
tudy of Letter Serial Correlation (LSC) in some Hebrew, Aramaic, Russian, and English texts Part 3. Experimental results - LSC in real meaningful texts
S
tudy of Letter Serial Correlation (LSC) in some Hebrew, Aramaic, Russian, and English texts Part 4. Discussion and interpretation of results
S
winburne's Justification for Naivete
T
eaching Science
T
en Amino Acids Thermodynamically Favored
T
est Your Knowledge of Information Theory
T
exas Citizens for Science Responds to Latest Discovery Institute Challenge
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exas education official forced to resign over evolution
T
he Dream World of William Dembski's Creationism
T
he "Algorithm Room": Can the "Design Inference" Catch a Cheater?
T
he “Vise Strategy” Undone:
Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District
T
he
Skeptic
on Dembski
T
he Accidental Tumor
T
he Anthropic Principle Does Not Support Supernaturalism
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he Anthropic Principles - Reasonable and Unreasonable and the Fallacy of the Abduction Argument for the Big Bang's Supernatural Origin
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he Bible "codes": a textual perspective
T
he Bible and Astronomy
T
he Cambrian as an evolutionary exemplar
T
he Case Against the Codes
T
he Chicken or the Egg
T
he chosen among us
T
he Constitutional Debate over Teaching Intelligent Design as Science in Public Schools
T
he Coulter Hoax: How Ann Coulter Exposed the Intelligent Design Movement
T
he DEMBSKI ALERT
T
he Design Argument
T
he Design Revolution? How William Dembski Is Dodging Questions About Intelligent Design
T
he Designer-of-the-Gaps Revisited
T
he DI and the smoking gun that wasn't
T
he Dover Books Cometh
T
he End of the Beginning
T
he Ever-Imminent Collapse of Evolution
T
he evolution wars enter the "No Spin Zone"
T
he Fact of Evolution: Implications for Science Education
T
he Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name
T
he Final Adventures of the Blind Locksmith
T
he Fine-Tuned Universe -- the insignificance of very small numbers
T
he Fine-Tuning Argument
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he Fine-Tuning Argument Revisited
T
he Galvanic Response
T
he Great Desecration
T
he Great Mutator
T
he Haeckel-Wells Chronicles
T
he idea of the sanctity of the Biblical text and the science of textual criticism
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he Imminent Demise of Evolution: The Longest Running Falsehood in Creationism
T
he Infinite Universe and Dembski's Design Inference
T
he Kuzari - The Principle and the Formalism
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he Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems
T
he Mother of All Disruptions: The Bible Code’s Jeremiah Problem
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he mousetrap
T
he Nitty Gritty Bit
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he No Free Lunch Theorems and their application to evolutionary algorithms
T
he Open Letters File
T
he peppered moth: a black and white story after all
T
he Purpose of Life is a Beach
T
he Religious and the Scientific Aspects of the Debate on the Codes Hidden in the Torah at Equidistant Letter Sequences
T
he Return of the Design Argument
T
he Revenge of Calvin and Hobbes; Behe's Meaningless Complexity
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he Revenge of Pythagoras: How a Mathematical Sharp Practice Undermines the Contemporary Design Argument
T
he Risale-i Nur on Naturalism
T
he Rise and Fall of the Bible Code
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he Rise and Fall of the Gans Experiment
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he Roots of ID
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he scientific vacuity of ID: design inference versus "Design Inference"
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he Signature of an Ignoramus
T
he slippery slope controversy
T
he Torah Codes: Puzzle and Solution
T
he True History of the Wedge
T
he Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth?
T
he view from 2016
T
he Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream
T
he Wrathful Dispersion controversy: A Canadian perspective
T
he Year in ID
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heistic Evolution: more evolution and less supernatural than ID and creationism
T
here "They" go again!
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here Is a Free Lunch After All: William Dembski's Wrong Answers to Irrelevant Questions
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heses on the nature of human morality
T
hou shalt not separate thyself from the collective
T
o laugh or to cry? Make your choice
V
erifying the Eternal via the Temporal?
V
iewpoint discrimination - Where are the ID proponents now?
V
on Neumann, Berlinski, and evolution
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ar of reviews
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ave-particle duality demystified?
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edging Creationism into the Academy
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eekend At Behe’s
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ells vs Mutant Mice
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est on the legal and ethical propriety of Judge Jones
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hat Does "Intelligent Agency by Proxy" Do for The Design Inference?
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hat else could be expected from Dembski?
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hat is wrong with Intelligent Design?
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hat We're up Against
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hen quote mining becomes quote mania
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hen was the Zohar Written?
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hirled Does Musicals
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hose head is ugly? Jonathan Wells and Lysenkoism
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hy "Intelligent Design" is more interesting than old-fashioned creationism
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hy Are Scientists Confident that Complex Biological Systems Evolved Gradually?
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hy Intelligent Design Doesn't Cut It: A Primer
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hy Intelligent Design Fails
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hy is it Unconstitutional to Teach Intelligent Design?
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hy It's Unconstitutional to Teach "Intelligent Design" in the Public Schools as an Alternative to Evolution
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hy scientists dismiss 'intelligent design'
W
illiam Dembski Factors 59!
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illiam Dembski's Treatment of the No Free Lunch Theorems is Written in Jello
W
rongly Inferred Design
Y
in and Yang of Kenneth Miller
Z
ombie Jamboree in Texas
