Category: Mathematics
Siding with Mathgrrl on a point, and offering an alternative to CSI v2.0
| May 18, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Complex Specified Information, Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
There are two versions of the metric for Bill Dembski’s CSI. One version can be traced to his book No Free Lunch published in 2002. Let us call that “CSI v1.0″. Then in 2005 Bill published Specification the Pattern that Signifies Intelligence where he includes the identifier “v1.22″, but perhaps it would be better to… more
ID Foundations, 17a: Footnotes on Conservation of Information, search across a space of possibilities, Active Information, Universal Plausibility/ Probability Bounds, guided search, drifting/ growing target zones/ islands of function, Kolmogorov complexity, etc.
| April 6, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Fine tuning, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
(previous, here) There has been a recent flurry of web commentary on design theory concepts linked to the concept of functionally specific, complex organisation and/or associated information (FSCO/I) introduced across the 1970′s into the 1980′s by Orgel and Wicken et al. (As is documented here.) This flurry seems to be connected to the announcement of… more
Comprehensibility of the world
| April 4, 2013 | Posted by niwrad under Logic and First Principles of right reason, Mathematics, Science, Philosophy and (Natural) Theology |
Albert Einstein, who was struck by the astonishing organization of the cosmos, said: “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible” and asked “How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?”… more
The equations of evolution
| March 24, 2013 | Posted by niwrad under Evolution, Mathematics |
For the Darwinists “evolution” by natural selection is what created all the species. Since they are used to say that evolution is well scientifically established as gravity, and given that Newton’s mechanics and Einstein’s relativity theory, which deal with gravitation, are plenty of mathematical equations whose calculations pretty well match with the data, one could… more
Stirring the Pot, 2: Godel, the Incompleteness Theorem, Euler’s expression, and the Turing Machine dilemma
| March 7, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Science, worldview issues and society, Stirring the pot (tentative thoughts/explorations) |
As we continue to stir the mathematics pot, BA 77 has given a link to a video on the significance of Godel’s discovery of incompleteness: embedded by Embedded VideoMetacafé Direkt (Pardon possible embed problems, the links work . . . I am doing this under travel related constraints) This one, gives a bit more of… more
Stirring the pot: on the apparent mathematical ordering of reality, and linked worldview/ philosophical/ theological issues . . .
| February 25, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Creationism, ID Foundations, Mathematics, Science, Philosophy and (Natural) Theology, Science, worldview issues and society, Stirring the pot (tentative thoughts/explorations) |
This morning, in the Gonzalez video post comment exchange, I saw where Mung raised a question about how Young Earth Creationists address the Old Cosmos, Old Earth implications of the view raised. I thought it useful to respond briefly, but then the wider connexions surfaced. I would like to stir the pot a bit [–>… more
Some Problems can be Proved Unsolvable
| January 31, 2013 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
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Here are a couple of difficult mathematical problems for you to work on, in your spare time: Find positive integers x,y and z, such that x3+y3=z3. Draw a 2D map which is impossible to color (such that countries which share a border have different colors) with fewer than 5 colors. And here is a difficult… more
Mathematics and Theology
| September 28, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Culture, Mathematics, Religion, Science |
I thought you all might be interested in an article I wrote titled Mathematics and Theology: Seeing to Infinity. The basic purpose of the article is to show how the “limit” concept from mathematics can be incorporated into theological reasoning. The larger purpose is to get theologians thinking more deeply about mathematics as a tool… more
Design Detection with Conditional Kolmogorov Complexity
| July 14, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Complex Specified Information, Engineering, ID Foundations, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Media, Philosophy, Video |
Next up in the Engineering and Metaphysics series is a presentation by Winston Ewert. This one is on a new informatics metric, called conditional Kolmogorov complexity. Check it out! more
Integrating Non-physical Causation Into Cognitive Models
| July 12, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Engineering, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Media, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Video |
For the next installment of the Engineering and Metaphysics Conference Videos, we have a talk on setting up a testable line between physical and non-physical causation, as well as how one can integrate non-physical causation into models of cognitive processes. more
If math matters to science, we wouldn’t know it from scientists’ behaviour
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Mathematics, News |
“The most maths-heavy articles are referenced 50 per cent less often than those with little or no maths.” more
Coffee: Golden ratio put to music
| June 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, Mathematics, News |
To create a musical interpretation, Blake mapped the digits in the constant to musical notes. more
Why math matters. Also, can we get a word in for common sense?
| March 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mathematics, News |
“Mathematics is the language spoken by the professionals. The amateurs offer an alternative set of visions.” more
If seven equations rule the world, which one proves that Ken Miller’s Darwinism is right …
| February 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Mathematics, News |
And should be forced on Americans for their own good? more
Berlinski on the Big Bang: “How would knowing more mathematics help, I wonder?”
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Mathematics, Philosophy |
“To ask for the time that time began is a little like asking for the length of length. ” more
Why Bill Dembski took aim against the Darwin frauds and their enablers #2
| January 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Mathematics, News |
“By the time I showed up, a permissive and secular educational philosophy had thoroughly vitiated that school system.” more
But if God is a pure mathematician … ?
| November 8, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mathematics, News |
How do we get from that to physical stuff? more
So, math still works, along with physics, it seems …
| October 2, 2011 | Posted by News under Mathematics, News |
(Physics is still a discipline in science because even Einstein might be wrong. Math is still a discipline because people can even admit the idea didn’t work and then just go back to their desks.) more
Granville Sewell on design in mathematics
| September 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Mathematics, News |
When we think of design, we normally think of biology or perhaps physics, but usually not mathematics. How can we see design in something that could not be any different than it is? I don’t know if mathematics could have been different than it is, but as a mathematician, I still see design in mathematics,… more
Darwin-free David Berlinski is always fun, also raises your IQ
| September 10, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mathematics, News |
Listening to Berlinski is like getting a free U philosophy course. more
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