Tagged: Maths

The speed of light is slowing? YECs may be right.

Young earth creationists (YEC) have long maintained that the earth and universe are very young (less than 10K years old!)  primarily based on their reading of the creation story and genealogies of Genesis 1 in the Bible. In order to make this jive with science,...

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Chance and necessity do not explain the origin of life

Uncommon Descent has a nice commentary on the recent paper on this subject in Cell Biology International (2004), discussing some foundational definitions in the Intelligent Design debate (Explanatory Filter, Proof by Contradiction, Displacement Theorem), and does a good job of discussing the unlikelihood of evolution...

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What Number Do We Use For Probability = 0?

I was reading Wm. Dembski’s discussion of nyolase, and why it is not an example of evolution, but of adaptation, or more specifically, "natural genetic engineering."  In the comments of that post, there was a discussion of Dembski’s use of 10-150 as a "bound" for...

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Mathmetician Challenges Darwinism

Ever been in one of those arguments where a creationist argues “evolution is against the law of entropy”, to which an evolutionist often replies “in an open system, entropy can increase – we have such a system, where the sun is the input”?  As a...

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