Category: Mathematics
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
A radically stronger logical structure than mathematics?
| August 1, 2011 | Posted by News under Mathematics |
What is it about the expression “higher plane” that sets the horses bolting? more
Numbers point to something beyond themselves … but what?
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Mathematics |
Numbers point to something beyond themselves … but what? more
Infinite Probabilistic Resources Makes ID Detection Easier (Part 2)
| July 28, 2011 | Posted by Eric Holloway under Design inference, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Science |
Previously [1], I argued that not only may a universe with infinite probabilistic resources undermine ID, it will definitely undermines science. Science operates by fitting models to data using statistical hypothesis testing with an assumption of regularity between the past, present, and future. However, given the possible permutations of physical histories, the majority are mostly… more
Nature by numbers – a wonderful short short
| July 26, 2011 | Posted by News under Mathematics |
Here, from Etereae Studios. The part they don’t cover is “life,” but no one does. more
The Effect of Infinite Probabilistic Resources on ID and Science (Part 1)
| July 25, 2011 | Posted by Eric Holloway under Design inference, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Multiverse, Physics |
If the infinite universe critique holds, then not only does it undermine ID, but every huckster, conman, and scam artist will have a field day. more
Plants do better math than people
| July 14, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Mathematics |
At Creation-Evolution Headlines, we learn (July 11, 2011): Plants perform a wonder that has attracted the admiration of scholars from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome to modern times: the ability to reproduce mathematically perfect patterns. This ability, called phyllotaxis, can be described mathematically with the Fibonacci Series and the Golden Angle. The beautiful spirals in… more
Why the second law of thermodynamics really is a threat to Darwinist tenure
| June 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, Mathematics |
Granville Sewell, math prof, satirist of silly ideas, and apology recipient (from math journal), has this to say about Darwinists’ attempt to rescue their theory from the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Organization always decrees, left to itself. Anyone who has made such an argument is familiar with the standard reply: the Earth is an open… more
“Sincere and heartfelt apologies” to Granville Sewell from the math journal that dumped his article due to Darwinist pressure
| June 21, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
Editor’s note: ‘‘A Second Look at the Second Law’’ An article, ‘‘A Second Look at the Second Law,’’ by Dr. Granville Sewell, Professor of Mathematics at University of Texas at El Paso, was submitted on October 21, 2010 to the Journal of Applied Mathematics Letters. Dr. Sewell’s article was peerreviewed and accepted for publication on… more
Breaking, breaking: ID-friendly math prof Granville Sewell gets apology and damages from journal
| June 8, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Mathematics |
Math journal retracted one of our UD authors’ accepted article only because Darwinist blogger complained A brief, lay-friendly, look at Sewell’s stifled paper is here. Comment on it’s significance here. This just in: Granville Sewell on the controversy. [This post will remain at the top of the page until 5:00 pm EST. For reader convenience,… more
Granville Sewell vindication latest in string of recent defeats for Darwin lobby … straw in the wind?
| June 8, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Mathematics |
Journal’s apology story here. It wasn’t like this years ago. I remember Rick Sternberg writing to me mid-decade, about how the Smithsonian honchoes were, at that time, holding meetings to decide his fate. The problem was: They had to get rid of him because he doubted the Darwin lobby’ theories, but had broken no rules.… more
Wanted: Mathemagician to work with extremely large values of 1 …
| May 7, 2011 | Posted by News under Mathematics |
About this odd recent job posting (math fix for neo-Darwinism), Doug Axe at Biologic Institute offers “Oxford seeks mathemagician” (May 5th, 2011): Scientists employ different rhetorical strategies to accomplish different things. That shouldn’t be surprising, perhaps, but for some it is. The reason is that while the public is very familiar with rhetorical shiftiness in… more
Oxford mathematician John Lennox on the chances of life developing without a supermind to guide it
| May 6, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
Here at MercatorNet, William West asks, “Has science buried God?” and answers, “No, far from it, an Oxford professor insists” (5 May 2011). He is reviewing the work of serious Christian Oxford mathematician and ID sympathizer John Lennox. Lennox goes through all the theories put forward to give credence to the idea that all of… more
Can Darwin’s enemy, math, rescue him?
| May 4, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Mathematics |
Oxford is hiring a mathematician to try to rescue Darwinism. Because it was the math that got Darwinism into trouble in the first place: The concept of fitness optimization is routinely used by field biologists, and first-year biology undergraduates are frequently taught that natural selection leads to organisms that maximize their fitness. Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene… more
Coffee!! Can mathematics illuminate politics?
| May 1, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Mathematics, Popular culture |
Here’s a discussion at New Scientist on proportional representation vs. “first past the post”: Can mathematics help? On 5 May, the UK will hold a referendum to determine which voting system the country should use in future elections, with voters asked to decide whether they want to adopt the alternative vote (AV) or stick with… more
The Nature of Nature — sticky
| April 2, 2011 | Posted by William Dembski under Biology, Culture, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary psychology, Informatics, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Mind, Multiverse, Natural selection, Neuroscience, Origin Of Life, Philosophy, Physics, Science |
THE NATURE OF NATURE is now finally out and widely available. If you haven’t bought it yet, let me suggest Amazon.com, which is selling it for $17.94, which is an incredible deal for a 7″x10″ 1000-page book with, for most of us, no tax and no shipping charge (it costs over $10 to ship this… more
On The Calculation Of CSI
| March 25, 2011 | Posted by MathGrrl under Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
My thanks to Jonathan M. for passing my suggestion for a CSI thread on and a very special thanks to Denyse O’Leary for inviting me to offer a guest post. [This post has been advanced to enable a continued discussion on a vital issue. Other newer stories are posted below. - O'Leary ] In the… more
Mathematical logic : The final sacrifice on the altar of materialism
| February 6, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Mathematics |
A friend, watching a serial thriller, The Oxford Murders, jotted down this interesting bit of dialogue between a professor who holds the Darwinist view of the brain (shaped for fitness, not for truth) and a design-based one (design in mathematics is real, and the brain is designed to apprehend it): Elijah Wood is sitting in… more
What has Christianity got to do with mathematics?
| January 19, 2011 | Posted by David Anderson under Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics |
Just added to the web, the linked article aims to give a short, non-technical, beginner’s answer to the question: “What has Christianity got to do with Mathematics?” more