Author: Stephen Dilley

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
January 16, 2025

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Technology
Tagged
, Bruce Gordon, Center for Science and Culture, Douglas Axe, natural selection, natural theology, San Diego, specified complexity, The Design Inference, universe, William A. Dembski}

Design Writ Large: CSC Fellows on “Science, Mathematics, and Technology”

_{Stephen Dilley
January 16, 2025

Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Technology

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Bill Dembski led by explaining rigorous means to detect design, including a refined understanding of specified complexity. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
October 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, beauty, conflict myth, empirical data, empiricism, evolution, faith and science, knowing, Paul Dirac, physical world, scientific theories, scientism, secularism, Steven Weinberg, testability, truth, water}

What Science Owes to Faith, Hope, and Love

_{Stephen Dilley
October 31, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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It's a stretch to say that our ability to do realist science arose from a mindless process of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", agnostics, atheism, Charles Darwin, evolution, Evolution News, fitness, human evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, mind, mindless processes, natural selection, Panda's Thumb, pandas, planning, Stephen Jay Gould, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, theology, Young Earth Creationism}

Gould’s Panda Argument Is a Problem for Atheistic and Agnostic Views

_{Stephen Dilley
April 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, then, Stephen Jay Gould’s panda argument does not provide evidence against intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biogeography, complementarity, Douglas Futuyma, dysteleology, embryology, evolution, Evolution News, faith and science, Francis Collins, Francisco Ayala, George Williams, God-talk, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, marsupials, methodological naturalism, Niles Eldredge, NOMA, paleontology, Panda's Thumb, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, textbooks, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology}

Does the Panda Argument Hurt the Case for Evolution?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Gould cannot have it both ways: either theology-laden arguments are legitimate within scientific discourse or not. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, creation, creationism, death, designer, evolution, humans, Incarnation, intelligent design, natural evil, pain, Panda's Thumb, peer-reviewed literature, Peter Van Inwagen, predation, redemption, resurrection, sickness, special creation, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, waste, William A. Dembski}

Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, creationism, devolution, evolution, harmony, intelligent design, Louis Agassiz, Natural Theology (book), Panda's Thumb, Peter Van Inwagen, proportion, Religions (journal), St. Paul, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, symmetry, theology, thumb, William A. Dembski, William Paley, Young Earth Creationists}

Gould’s God-Talk: Is the Panda’s Thumb Incompatible with ID?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 5, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Stephen Jay Gould was renowned as a paleontologist, not as a theologian. Yet perhaps his most iconic argument is theological in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, carnivores, common ancestry, dexterity, digits, economy, efficiency, evolution, evolutionists, intelligent design, leaves, mammals, Panda's Thumb, Religions (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality}

Is the Panda’s Thumb Suboptimal?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The basic argument is that “[o]dd arrangements and funny solutions” point to evolution whereas “ideal design” points to a “sensible God.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 19, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, biological complexity, convergence, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, laws of nature, Ockham’s razor, preconditions, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, science, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), William A. Dembski}

Evolution Falsified? Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

_{Casey Luskin and Stephen Dilley
March 19, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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If unguided evolution can account for the eye of an eagle, does it make any sense to say that intelligent design is also needed? Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
February 27, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, biological complexity, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, causes, convergent evolution, Darwinian evolution, David Glass, design detection, Emily Reeves, evolution, Evolution News, fitness landscapes, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mutations, preconditions, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), tinkering, weddings}

To Dance at Two Weddings: Rope Kojonen’s Evolutionary Quest

_{Stephen Dilley
February 27, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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According to a proverb, you can’t dance at two weddings at the same time. Dr. Kojonen believes that you can. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, common sense, continuity, design detection, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, evolution, fauna, flora, hummingbird, intelligent design, intuition, laws of nature, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theist on the street, theistic evolution}

Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”

_{Stephen Dilley
February 14, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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On Rope Kojonen's model, she no longer has grounds to trust her common-sense intuition of the design of the eagle’s eye. Read More ›