Tag: agent causation

Happy father having fun while playing with his small son at home.

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adjectives, agent causation, B. F. Skinner, behavior, behaviorism, children, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, free will, grammar, intellect, Jerry Fodor, language, Language Acquisition Device, language organ, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, mental states, Michael Behe, Noam Chomsky, nouns, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, The Immortal Mind, Verbal Behavior, verbs, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done

_{Michael Egnor
June 12, 2025

Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 12, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __tedited, agent causation, argument from analogy, Cambrian fossils, entropy, evolutionary biology, explanatory power, fossil record, gradualism, intelligent causation, methodological naturalism, scientific reasoning, The Origins of Life}

Why Should Evolutionary Biology Be So Different?

_{Granville Sewell
June 12, 2016

Evolution, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Joseph LeConte, professor of geology at the University of California, provides an insight into the way most scientists think about evolution. Read More ›

sign at the railroad station at the edge of the platform looking toward the tracks warning you to watch the gap

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Date
February 24, 2015

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, "God of the gaps", agency, agent causation, deism, designer, events, explanatory power, First Cause, free will, fundamental particles, physicalism, promissory materialism, theophobia}

This Weekend in California, Paul Nelson Will Speak on the "God of the Gaps" Challenge and the Explanatory Superiority of Design

_{Science and Culture
February 24, 2015

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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You've heard the objection: The theory of intelligent design is nothing but a "God of the Gaps" argument. Read More ›

Starry Night over the Allen Telescope Array: A Celestial Symphony of Science and Wonder

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
September 24, 2014

Categories
Epistemology
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, __nedited, agent causation, alien intelligence, atheism, identity theory, logic, logic tree, materialism, methodological naturalism, ontology, radio telescopy, Reductionism, SETI, undirected process}

Do You Like SETI? Fine, Then Let’s Dump Methodological Naturalism

_{Paul Nelson
September 24, 2014

Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics

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After reading my article about MN, a correspondent wrote and asked a good question. Read More ›