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Science Corner: One Is The Likeliest Number

August 26, 2020 by Andy Walsh No Comments

For many real world data sets, what we actually observe is that the smaller digits are more likely, with 1 tending to be the most common digit.

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Science Corner: I’ll Be in Scotland Afore Ye

September 9, 2015 by Andy Walsh No Comments

In a lovely bit of metaconvergence, two studies on convergent evolution showed up in the news this week.

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Does Intelligent Design Rule Out Evolution?

March 12, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen 9 Comments

In the next series of blog posts we are going to look at Christian questions about evolution. In my last post we saw that two of the Christian views of creation, Young Earth Creationism and Old Earth Creationism, disagree with the scientific account of the mechanism of creation. Because of this we need to ask, […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: biological intelligent design, chance vs. design, Christian questions about evolution, Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, creation, Darwin’s Black Box, evolution, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Michael Behe, Russell Doolittle, specificity, William Dembski

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