The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism

Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics
(Marks, Dembski & Ewert),
211–217, 220
irreducible complexity, 39–47
Behe’s discussion of, 40–47
Dembski’s complexity framework and,
138–140
mathematical rhetoric in support of,
267–271
Johnson, Phillip, 99–100, 102–105, 171–172,
174
Journal of Theoretical Biology
, 146
Kimura, Motoo, 173, 205
Kitcher, Philip, 44
language
computer code as, 96–97
DNA compared to, 179–184
Lecomte du Noüy, Pierre,
243–246
Lenski, Richard, 209–210
Lewontin, Richard, 85, 96–97
Lloyd, Bob, 257, 259–261
logarithms, 164–166
long-term modeling, perils of, 99–105
Lynch, Michael, 190–191
Macready, William, 195–198
macromutations, 243
mammals, hearing apparatus in, 36
map reading, mathematics and, 58
Marks, Robert J. II, 203, 211–217, 217
Mathematical Challenges to the
Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of
Evolution
(Wistar conference
proceedings), 84–86
mathematical modeling
anti-evolutionsts’ rhetoric using, 76–82,
267–271
applications of, 61–62
bad modeling, 74–76
defined, 58
estimation errors in, 75
ethological research and, 50–51
evolutionary biology and, 82–83
examples of, 58–65
long-term modeling, 99–105
parallel tracks in, 65–74, 112–117
population genetics, 120–121
protein evolution, 190–191
thermodynamical systems, 227–233
use of theorems in, 179–184
mathematical notation, Intelligent Design
use of, 147
“The Mathematical Theory of
Communication” (Shannon), 167,
171–173
mathematics
anti-evolutionary movement and, 9–15,
105–108
basic principles of, 58–65
creationist discourse and, 6–9
evolutionary theory and, 9–15, 84–86
information theory and, 163–167
notation and theorems in, 65–74
Tracks 1 and 2 in, 67–69
Matzke, Nicholas, 159, 162
Maynard Smith, John, 167–169, 209, 210
Mayr, Ernst, 85, 99–105, 105, 105–109
McIntosh, Andrew, 177–179
Medawar, Peter, 85, 102–105
medical research, evolutionary theory and, 2
Meyer, Stephen, 108, 129–132, 185–188,
272–273
Miller, Kenneth, 157, 162
Mivart, St. George, 9
modern synthesis, 2, 17
modification, evolution and, 19–22
molecular biology
evolution and, 108, 218
protein space and, 188–191
Moran, Laurence, 162
Morris, Henry
Genesis Flood
theory of, 246–251
second law arguments developed by,
251–254
Müller, G., 17
Muller, H. J., 46–47
Musgrave, Ian, 36
mutation
Behe’s model of, 153–154
evolution and, 19–22, 202–204
protein space and, 80–82
site-directed mutagenesis, 185
mutationism school, 243

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290 index
natural selection
adaptation and, 36, 76
artificial life experiments and, 210–211
Basic Argument from Improbability and,
126–132
complex structures and, 29–39, 46–47
consistency in, 215–216
Eden’s presentation on, 86–91
evolution and, 21
field studies of animal and, 38–39
genetic information and, 175
information and, 204–207
No Free Lunch theorems and, 202–204
theory of, 1–3
Natural Theology
(Paley), 47
negative information, avoidance of, 164–166
neo-Darwinism, 99–105
n
factorial, combinatorics, 121–124
Nguyen, Diep, 210–211
No Free Lunch theorems
absence of universal algorithms and,
195–198
information and combinatorial search,
191–195
mathematical rhetoric in, 268–269
No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity