Category: Scientific Reasoning

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 18, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, cattle, coyote, evolution, existential problems, fairy tale, food, human life, human mind, Imperfection (book), irrationality, logic, luck, materialism, Nautilus, pop psychology, rationality, reproduction, Serendipity (book), survival of the fittest, Telmo Pievani, Templeton Foundation, threats}

Materialism Is Sounding Super Tired Lately

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 18, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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This sort of cross between a fairy tale and pop psychology helps pop science readers pass the time while listening to the latest announcement of a flight delay. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Allan CP, atheists, biology textbooks, Charles Darwin, evolution, evolutionists, faith and science, Jerry Coyne, reasoning, religious tradition, Richard Dawkins, science, Stephen Dilley, textbooks, The Science Dilemma, theology}

Dilley: How Evolutionary Atheists Employ Homemade Theology

_{David Klinghoffer
July 28, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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That is no way to reason about science. Yet many biology textbooks, in explaining evolution, do the same thing, perpetuating an error that goes back to Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred Adler, Andreas Wagner, biology, bird beaks, Charles Darwin, circular reasoning, Darwinism, ENCODE project, evidence, evolution, explanatory power, François Jacob, frogs, genome, homologous features, inferiority complex, irrefutable belief systems, Karl Marx, Karl Popper, philosophy of science, psychologists, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Dobzhansky}

Why Evolution Is Undeniable

_{Daniel Witt
July 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The challenges continue to pile up, but the pile never gets any bigger because each piece of contrary evidence is reinterpreted for “general reasons.” Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 10, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, analogy, anthropologists, biology, compartmentalization, defenestration, defining science, diggers, Forensics, geologists, geology, gravity, hypotheticals, integration, intelligent creatures, intelligent design, intelligent designer, methodological pluralism, methodology, natural laws, naturalistic explanations, open-mindedness, patterns, physical world, predictions, psychologists, psychology, real world, science, sociology, tractors, unscientific}

Are Scientists Allowed to Consider Unscientific Explanations?

_{Daniel Witt
July 10, 2025

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Let’s consider a narrower field. Geology, as everyone knows, is concerned with the natural processes that act upon the earth. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, argument in the alternative, attorneys, biology, Casey Luskin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwinian evolution, defining id, defining science, definist fallacy, demarcation criteria, evidence, evidence for id, evolution, geologists, historical sciences, ID research program, intelligent design, lawyers, natural world, non-science, peer-reviewed literature, predictive-success, Research, science, scientific method, testability}

The Divide Between Science and Non-Science

_{David Klinghoffer
July 7, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The most commonly heard charge against ID is that it “isn’t science” and therefore can’t even be evaluated as a scientific alternative to Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Benjamin Franklin, chicken, Claude Shannon, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Essays on Life Itself, garden snail, genome, George D. Rose, Hypatia of Alexandria, information, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, junk DNA, Levinthal paradox, Life Itself, logos, Michael Levin, nature, Neoplatonism, Nous, Peter Tompa, physical world, Plato's Revenge, Plotinus, Protein Science (journal), Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, seashells, snails, The Physical Basis of Biology, Walter Elsasser, whiteboard, yeast}

A Diffident Revolutionary

_{David Klinghoffer
June 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, biologists, Brian Miller, Carl Jung, coincidence, Denyse O'Leary, development, Greek philosophy, ID the Future, immaterial genome, intelligent design, mathematical biology, Michael Levin, neuroscience, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, publishers, Raphael, synchronicity, Synchronicity (book), Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus}

Sternberg and Egnor Reveal the Immaterial Realm

_{David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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This kind of thinking is also on the horizon coming from biologists like Michael Levin unconnected to the ID community. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, academia, animals, biological complexity, biology, biopsychism, chemistry, Communicative & Integrative Biology, Evolution and the Fate of Humankind, Evolution News, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Manuel DeLanda, Marco Masi, materialism, metaphysical vitalism, methodology, Michael Levin, min, nest-building, nurturing, Peter Corning, physical vitalism, physics, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, protection, Richard Sternberg, synergy, teleonomy, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vital force, vitalism}

Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism

_{Daniel Witt
June 6, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, children, College Physics, common science, computer simulation, computers, David Klinghoffer, evolution, fundamental forces, humans, intelligent design, James Tour, materialistic science, Mathematical Intelligencer, mathematicians, Michael Kent, natural phenomena, Peter Urone, physics, Plato's Revenge, quantum mechanics, Rice University, Richard Sternberg, scientific evidence, smart phones, spaceships, supernatural, unintelligent}

Evolution and Common-Sense Reasoning

_{Granville Sewell
June 2, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The equations of quantum mechanics do not describe exactly — even in theory — the effects of the fundamental forces on the fundamental particles of physics. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, amino acids, Bret Weinstein, Canadian universities, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, mad cow disease, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientists, variation}

How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

_{Kirk Durston
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Life Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›