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Welcoming Ann Gauger -- and Farewell to Casey Luskin

Would you like the bad news first, or the good? The last day of the calendar year is a time of transition, and not least for the staff of Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture. As Casey Luskin announced earlier, he is embarking on a new adventure, one that is exciting for him -- but a major loss for us. At the same time, however, we have a major gain to celebrate: Biologist Ann Gauger of Biologic Institute has joined us as Director of Science Communication.

We had no fewer than...

Big Announcement, and Reflections on a Great Decade

It is with a mixture of sadness and excitement that I write this to announce that, as the year 2015 closes, I am leaving Discovery Institute. I am doing so in order to fulfill a lifelong goal of furthering my studies. My colleagues, who entirely support this decision, are people of the utmost integrity and they have been incredibly generous and welcoming to me and my family. I know we will miss each other. Working here over the past ten years has been a wonderful experience for which I am ex...

#2 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Hominid Hype Over a Species of Unclear Evolutionary Importance

Editor's note: Welcome to the traditional recounting of our Top 10 evolution-related stories of the past year, as compiled in a rigorous, peer-reviewed, strictly scientific manner by Evolution News staff. Sit back and enjoy the most amusing, the most enlightening, and the most important news to come our way in 2015. The countdown will culminate on New Year's Day.

Happy New Year from your friends in the intelligent design community! If you haven't finalized your year-end contribution to supp...

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Introducing The Information Enigma, Intelligent Design in a Nutshell

Editor's note: Welcome to the traditional recounting of our Top 10 evolution-related stories of the past year, as compiled in a rigorous, peer-reviewed, strictly scientific manner by Evolution News staff. Sit back and enjoy the most amusing, the most enlightening, and the most important news to come our way in 2015. The countdown will culminate on New Year's Day.

Happy New Year from your friends in the intelligent design community! If you haven't finalized your year-end contribution to supp...

Peer-Reviewed Paper Successfully Measures Specified Complexity in Computer Images

A new peer-reviewed article in the journal IET Computer Vision, "Measuring meaningful information in images: algorithmic specified complexity," by Winston Ewert, William A. Dembski, and Robert J. Marks II, again attempts to apply the concept of algorithmic specified complexity (ASC) as a measure of meaning vs. randomness in a dataset. In a previous article I noted that the team at the Evolutionary Informatics Lab tried to apply algorithmic specified complexity (ASC) to successfully predict r...

#4 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Fear of Intelligent Design Prevents Some Biologists from Accepting ENCODE

Editor's note: Welcome to the traditional recounting of our Top 10 evolution-related stories of the past year, as compiled in a rigorous, peer-reviewed, strictly scientific manner by Evolution News staff. Sit back and enjoy the most amusing, the most enlightening, and the most important news to come our way in 2015. The countdown will culminate on New Year's Day.

Happy New Year from your friends in the intelligent design community! If you haven't finalized your year-end contribution to supp...

Peer-Reviewed Scientific Paper Develops New Ways of Measuring Complex and Specified Information in Life

Winston Ewert, Bill Dembski, and Bob Marks have recently published a new peer-reviewed paper in the journal IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetic: Systems, titled "Algorithmic Specied Complexity in the Game of Life." The purpose of the paper is to develop the concept of algorithmic specified complexity as a new and improved method of measuring biological (and other forms of) information.

They start by observing that "Neither fundamental Shannon nor Kolmogorov information models a...

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2015: C. elegans and the Problem of Evolving Animal Body Plans

Editor's note: Welcome to the traditional recounting of our Top 10 evolution-related stories of the past year, as compiled in a rigorous, peer-reviewed, strictly scientific manner by Evolution News staff. Sit back and enjoy the most amusing, the most enlightening, and the most important news to come our way in 2015. The countdown will culminate on New Year's Day.

Happy New Year from your friends in the intelligent design community! If you haven't finalized your year-end contribution to supp...

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2015: Peer-Reviewed Paper Reveals Darwin's Unavoidable Catch-22 Problem

Editor's note: Welcome to the traditional recounting of our Top 10 evolution-related stories of the past year, as compiled in a rigorous, peer-reviewed, strictly scientific manner by Evolution News staff. Sit back and enjoy the most amusing, the most enlightening, and the most important news to come our way in 2015. The countdown will culminate on New Year's Day.

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#7 of Our Top Stories of 2015: "Totalitarian Science" in the Age of Obama

Editor's note: Welcome to the traditional recounting of our Top 10 evolution-related stories of the past year, as compiled in a rigorous, peer-reviewed, strictly scientific manner by Evolution News staff. Sit back and enjoy the most amusing, the most enlightening, and the most important news to come our way in 2015. The countdown will culminate on New Year's Day.

Happy New Year from your friends in the intelligent design community! If you haven't finalized your year-end contribution to supp...