Probability, Compressibility and AI

A Novel Response to Intelligent Design

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ID8135140
AuthorsWojciech P Grygiel (0000-0003-2599-0410, Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, corresponding author)
Year2026
Volume17
Issue3
Pages364
Publication date2026-03-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel17030364
OpenAlexW7137359606
LanguageEN
References cited31

This article offers a reassessment of the Intelligent Design doctrine by engaging probability theory, complexity theory and contemporary artificial intelligence. Andrey Kolmogorov’s work shows that chance belongs to an intelligible mathematical order and that complex structures can arise from patterns that admit concise description. This challenges the assumption that improbability signals an external designer and instead points to a creation whose inner rationality is stable and fruitful. Insights from self-organizing systems strengthen this view by showing how new forms of order emerge from the interaction of fluctuation and natural constraint. Recent advances in artificial intelligence including AlphaFold, de novo protein design and the Brain-Derived Hebbian architecture make aspects of this intelligibility visible by modeling and predicting biological form and basic patterns of reasoning without recourse to explicit foresight. Their capacity to generate coherent structures under learned constraints reflects the rational order of creation, which Christian theology identifies with the Divine Logos. This order provides a deeper account of divine action than interpretations of Intelligent Design grounded solely in structural improbability

Action (physics · Artificial life · Intelligent design · Order (exchange · Rationality · Architecture · Evolution and Science Education · Origins and Evolution of Life · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies

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