Ep. 314 WInston Ewert Asks: Is the Human Mind a Computer?
Winston Ewert is a computer scientist and mathematician with numerous publications in the Intelligent Design (ID) field, including co-authored works with William Dembski. He joins Bob to discuss his recently published essay (a chapter in a collection) on the algorithmic model of the human mind. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube…
Ep. 303 Jonathan Bartlett Explains How Random Mutations Aren’t Always So Random
Jonathan Bartlett is a prolific software engineer and textbook author who has published peer-reviewed articles on the information embedded in biological organisms. He joins Bob to discuss two of his recent papers, highlighting a distinction in the term “random mutation” that has great relevance for the Intelligent Design debate. Mentioned in the Episode and Other…
Ep. 111 Winston Ewert Explains His Research Applying Computer Science to Intelligent Design
Winston Ewert is an up-and-coming researcher in the Intelligent Design movement, having co-authored articles with one of its leading lights, William Dembski. After explaining ID and relating it to creationism and the theory of common descent, Winston summarizes his research which applies insights from computer science to the biological realm. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links…
Ep. 106 Why Intelligent Design (ID) Will Be the Public Choice of the Natural Sciences
Anticipating his forthcoming interview with Winston Ewert, Bob explains why the Intelligent Design movement will be to the natural sciences, what the Public Choice school in economics is to the social sciences. Bob predicts that the explanation for the observed complexity of the universe will ultimately be pushed back into the structure of mathematics itself. Mentioned…
Ep. 82 Why Intelligent Design Is a Scientific Theory
In the bitter debates over evolution, it is a common practice for the defenders of the orthodox Darwinian approach to argue that not only is Intelligent Design (ID) theory wrong, but it doesn’t even count as a scientific theory. After all, so the orthodox defenders argue, you can’t really test to see if an intelligent…