with various other kinds of freedom: Some which are perfectly rigid, some with 'universal joints', and some that are perfectly free to move and occupy any point in space. Clearly this is a crude analogy, but I believe this kind of analysis

with talking about free will . Topic Index Next > The Distinctiveness of Being Human Show Related Topics Contributed by: Richard Randolph and

on the Game of Life, Free Will and Determinism Play Donald Knuth on using the Game of Life as a Universe Simulation Play

out of nothing as an act of free creation , which is the main line of the Christian doctrine of creation, implies a) that the world is not itself part of God, and is not therefore itself holy, and b) that God could have created a different world

In No Free Lunch , Dembski tells us that “The problem, then, is to coordinate the gradual Darwinian evolution of an organism with the emergence of an irreducibly complex system that the organism now houses but did not

forces? Dembski freely admits that he cannot offer any causally specific model for this action, but he also argues that this should not be seen as a shortcoming of the ID proposal. After all, “ Intelligent design is not a

of Dembski’s book, No Free Lunch . Dembski uses the bacterial flagellum as the principal example of what he considers to be an intelligently designed biotic structure. The flagellum is an acid-powered rotary motor with a

In several places in No Free Lunch , Dembski goes to considerable lengths to state the requirements that specification and detachability must satisfy in the careful language of logic, set theory and the like. The index of the book cites more

and survival (in No Free Lunch I'll show that the Darwinian mechanism has no such power, though for now let's let it ride). But outside a context that includes replicators, no one has a clue how specified complexity occurs by naturalistic

(Frank Tipler and Freeman Dyson have made precisely such arguments, namely, that arbitrarily small amounts of energy are capable of information processing -- in fact capable of sustaining information processing indefinitely). For