Tag: ad hoc hypotheses

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", ad hoc hypotheses, Big Think, Dartmouth College, David Klinghoffer, Eugene Koonin, Evolution News, First Cause, Gottfried Leibniz, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Durston, multiverse, universe}

Physicist: “The Multiverse Is a Lot Like God”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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I have to admit it makes me smile to think Professor Gleiser’s thoughts ahead of him. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Science
Tagged
, ad hoc hypotheses, Darwinian theory, data, David Berlinski, fitness, genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Marxism, Minnesota, Richard Lewontin, systematics, wisdom, Yiddish}

Richard Lewontin (1929-2021), Mensch

_{Paul Nelson
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science

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As I stood by the lab doorway, Lewontin — who was sitting right down front — looked back towards the door and caught my eye. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 14, 2017

Categories
Geophysics
Origin of Life
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, amino acids, ammonia, carbohydrates, cellular metabolism, early Earth, homochirality, hydrogen, Jack Szostak, lipids, methane, nucleotides, phosphate, RNA, Robert Shapiro, Royal Society, skepticism, Stanley Miller, thermodynamics, V.J. Torley}

The Origin of Life: Dangers of Taking Research Claims at Face Value

_{Brian Miller
December 14, 2017

Geophysics, Origin of Life, Scientific Trustworthiness

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All simulations that purport to be breakthroughs in origins problems follow the same pattern. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 12, 2017

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, Columbia University, consciousness, Cosmos (series), evidence, fake news, falsifiability, hype, illusions, multiverse, naturalism, Normal Science, Occam's Razor, panspermia, Peter Woit, post-truth, Scientific American, scientific reliability, simulation theory, Templeton Foundation}

How Naturalism Rots Science from the Head Down

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 12, 2017

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

5}

The prevalence of, for example, fake physics, shows that we are in the midst of a philosophical decline. Read More ›

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Date
January 22, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, alien intelligence, Brian Miller, Divine Foot, Richard Lewontin}

Listen: Brian Miller on Letting Alien Feet in the Door to Keep a Divine Foot Out

_{Science & Culture
January 22, 2017

Evolution

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Harvard geneticist Richard Lewontin famously insisted that science must never let a "divine foot in the door." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 18, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, alien intelligence, Contact (novel), Extra-Terrestrial Life, extraterrestrial intelligence, laws of physics, Privileged Species}

Alien Physics: Scientist Offers Novel Escape Hatch from Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
November 18, 2016

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Planetology

4}

It's a good day for some rather underwhelming attempts to evade scientific indications of ID. Read More ›

Concept of substance addiction. The struggle and journey of individuals affected by the condition. Ai Generated.

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post

Date
May 8, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Metascience
Psychology
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, category error, depression, evidence for evolution, fallibility, funding, honesty, perverse incentives, politicization, psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, Zeitgeist}

How a Scientific Field Can Collapse: The Case of Psychiatry

_{Science & Culture
May 8, 2013

Evolution, Medicine, Metascience, Psychology

11}

Psychiatry is in crisis. Leading journals are questioning its validity as a science. Yet some of the same criticisms could be leveled against Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 2, 2011

Categories
Science Reporting
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, argument from analogy, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, common descent, DNA, evidence for id, Forbes, John Farrell, Medieval science, methodological naturalism, misrepresentation, natural philosophy, nested hierarchy, positive case for design, Response to Criticism, sequence hypothesis, straw man, Tree of Life}

Who Misrepresented Who? A Response to John Farrell

_{Casey Luskin
April 2, 2011

Science Reporting, Scientific Reasoning

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When we find re-usage of parts in a way that cannot be explained by a phylogenetic tree and common descent, this is the sort of data we might expect under intelligent design. Read More ›

Shattered chemistry flask. Chemistry concept. Scientific experiment

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 21, 2005

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, Albert Einstein, Charles Krauthammer, common descent, Darwinism as religion, definist fallacy, demarcation criteria, epicycles, falsifiability, falsification, Kansas, Karl Popper, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Larry Laudan, positive case for design, rhetoric, Sigmund Freud, straw man, systematics, teleology, theology, theory, undirected evolution, Washington Post}

Don’t Bash it ‘Til You’ve Tried It: A response to Krauthammer and Kriegel

_{Casey Luskin
November 21, 2005

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Science Reporting

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Anti-ID editorials by Charles Krauthammer and Uriah Kriegel misunderstand science and offer poor critiques of intelligent design. Read More ›