Tag: Andreas Wagner

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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
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Brian Miller, cellular structures, computer scientists, Daniel Witt, David Deutsch, DNA, Eric Hedin, Evolution News, George F. R. Ellis, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, information, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, life, mathematical biology, mathematicians, Max Tegmark, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, organisms, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, Roger Penrose, The Immortal Mind, time and space, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

_{David Klinghoffer
June 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 19, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, Brian Miller, calculations, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Denis Noble, Empedocles, evolution, Evolution Evolving, gene knockout, information, Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, Io, Irreducible Complexity, Jupiter, Michael Behe, Middle Ages, Mount Etna, Nature (journal), neurons, Ole Rømer, Oxford University, Peter Corning, Plato's Revenge, Presocratic philosophers, René Descartes, telescope, Theodosius Dobzhansky, University of Zurich}

Settled Science Is Becoming Radically Unsettled: Get Ready for Revolutions

_{Daniel Witt
May 19, 2025

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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It might be early to say whether Richard Sternberg's calculations are correct — but the point is, this kind of calculation is only just becoming possible. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, C.H. Waddington, Casey Luskin, creationists, demiurge, Denis Noble, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, Hans Driesch, Harvard University, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lars Löfgren, Michael Levin, microbes, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, René Descartes, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, sequoia trees, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, theoretical biology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vitalism}

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

_{Daniel Witt
May 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

10}

I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. 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
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
January 30, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Anthony Flew, Aristotle, arrival of the fittest, causation, causes, Daniel Witt, Darwin's Black Box, David Gelernter, DNA, Energy, Irreducible Complexity, Jacques Monod, Life Itself, logic, mastodons, matter, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, natural law, observation, oxidation, purpose, reduction, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Stuart Kauffman, subatomic particles, supernovae, T. rex, telos, Thomistic Aristotelianism}

The Metaphysics of Irreducible Complexity

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
January 30, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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The vastness of life’s complexity is no longer unfathomable when seen through the light of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, arrival of the fittest, automobile, Darwinian evolution, de novo genes, evolution, François Jacob, genes, intelligent design, molecular machines, predictions, Sleeping Beauties, tinkerer, William A. Dembski, Zeitgeist}

The Junk Shop of Andreas Wagner

_{Daniel Witt
June 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

The fundamental dilemma is this: whenever you co-opt any part from an old system and put it in a new system, there are two possibilities. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 6, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Andes, Andreas Wagner, creationism, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, evolution, evolutionary biology, foresight, fossils, intelligent design, Lake Malawi, Michael Behe, Richard Lenski, Sleeping Beauties, stickleback fish, University of Zurich}

The Enchanted Sleep of Andreas Wagner

_{Daniel Witt
June 6, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

Apparently, Darwinian evolution doesn’t actually explain life. This may come as news to some people. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 25, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, creationism, Denis Noble, equivocation, evolutionary biologists, intelligent design, James Shapiro, natural, naturalism, neo-Darwinian synthesis, philosophers, Plato, Platonic forms, Raju Pookottil, reality, supernatural, The Third Way}

Is Evolution’s “Third Way” Natural? (And Are We Allowed to Reference It?)

_{Daniel Witt
March 25, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As the body of evidence against the Darwinian model has grown ever larger, many scientists have started peeling off to look for other options. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 19, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, biological complexity, convergence, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary processes, evolutionary theory, fitness landscapes, intelligent design, laws of nature, Ockham’s razor, preconditions, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, science, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), William A. Dembski}

Evolution Falsified? Rope Kojonen’s Achievement

_{Casey Luskin and Stephen Dilley
March 19, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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If unguided evolution can account for the eye of an eagle, does it make any sense to say that intelligent design is also needed? Read More ›