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
, agent causation, B. F. Skinner, behavior, behaviorism, children, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, free will, grammar, intellect, Jerry Fodor, language, language organ, mental states, Michael Behe, Noam Chomsky, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, The Immortal Mind, 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, physicalism, promissory materialism}

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

_{Science & 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, materialism, methodological naturalism, ontology, 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 ›