Tag: a priori

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Metascience
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, a priori, Alzheimer’s disease, amino acids, Bret Weinstein, Canadian universities, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, failed predictions, 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, Metascience, 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 ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 30, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, Aeon, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, atheism, Big Bang, debate, faith, First Cause, general relativity, laws of physics, logic, marijuana, natural science, natural theology, New Atheism, Peter Atkins, science, Scripture, Singularity, Thomas Aquinas, Uncaused Cause, University of Oxford, William Lane Craig}

Can Science Answer All the “Big” Questions?

_{Michael Egnor
January 30, 2020

Faith & Science, Mathematics

6}

Peter Atkins is right that science can answer the biggest question we can ask. His problem is that he doesn’t like the answer science provides. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 15, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Big Bang, Big Crunch, causation, change, cosmological arguments, existence, First Way, Five Ways, law of non-contradiction, logic, lunar phases, Moon, moonlight, Necessary Existence, potency, reflection, sun, Third Way, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight

_{Michael Egnor
October 15, 2019

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

6}

Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 14, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, actuality, atheism, cosmological arguments, First Cause, Five Ways, gunpowder, laws of nature, logic, nature, nuclear fusion, potentiality, Prime Mover, proofs, Thomas Aquinas}

Irrefutable, Impeccable, Inescapable: Aquinas’ Second Way

_{Michael Egnor
October 14, 2019

Faith & Science, Philosophy

7}

Every grain of sand is a link in an essential causal chain. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 12, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, Alvin Plantinga, dog, essence, existence, Five Ways, geometry, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, logic, Ontological Argument, planets, Plato, Platonic forms, René Descartes, science, stars, Thomas Aquinas, unicorns}

Essence and Existence in Modern Science

_{Michael Egnor
October 12, 2019

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Philosophy

6}

St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 4, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Aquinas.design, Aristotle, Big Bang, change, essential causal chain, Five Ways, general relativity, law of non-contradiction, photosynthesis, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books

_{Michael Egnor
October 4, 2019

Faith & Science

12}

Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
September 22, 2014

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, a priori, BioLogos, Bradley Monton, Cambrian Explosion, causation, closed-mindedness, creationists, curiosity, Darwin's Doubt, defeaters, design hypothesis, empiricism, evolution, General Scholium, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, observability, On the Origin of Species, replicability, Robert Boyle, science, scientific principles, scientific reasoning, scientific revolution, scientific theory, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, testability, theology}

Methodological Naturalism: A Rule That No One Needs or Obeys

_{Paul Nelson
September 22, 2014

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

1}

The only real motivation for holding to MN is to keep the bad guys at bay, as an all-purpose "Press Button in Case of Emergency" defeater for ideas like intelligent design. Read More ›