Tag: causality

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, artifacts, artwork, axes, biology, cats' claws, causality, chairs, conveyances, cups, DNA, dwellings, E.O. Wilson, emergence, enzymes, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, final causality, Francis Bacon, human artifacts, Immanuel Kant, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jacques Monod, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leonard Susskind, Life Itself, Ludwig Wittgenstein, machines, mechanics, Michael Behe, Neo-Darwinism, purpose, randomness-selection hypothesis, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, rockets, science of purpose, Sir Martin Rees, spoons, St. Thomas Aquinas, Stephen Hawking, structure-function relationship, telos, Theodosius Dobzhansky, tools, William Dembski, windmills}

What Is the Originating Source of Design in Organisms?

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 17, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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The genesis of structure-function relationships in human artifacts is as well understood as are their mechanics. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, atheism, Basil Willey, Brights, C. S. Lewis, causality, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christian Bandea, Daniel Dennett, Deborah Lavin, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, ineffable, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Leslie Stephen, Lisbon earthquake, logomachia, Louise Mabille, Marcus du Sautoy, Meister Eckhart, Moses Maimonides, natural selection, negative theology, New Atheists, Newtonianism, Noam Chomsky, Peter Vorzimmer, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Robin Le Poidevin, Sextus Empiricus, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, The above consideration, Thomas Aquinas, truth, tsunami, Unmoved Mover, via negativa, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg, wortelos, wortlos}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

17}

Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, birds, causality, diabetes, differential equations, dispositionalism, hemoglobin, high blood pressure, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, materialistic science, medicine, Michael Behe, migration, nature, navigation, opium, powers, powers ontology, realism, science of purpose, scientific inquiry, solar radiation, Thomas Aquinas, UV light, water}

Powers Ontology: Overcoming the Limits of Reductionist Materialism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Reductionism is a method for understanding something by minimizing it to a very simple level that can be restricted to abstract language. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
January 15, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, breathing, causality, Charles Darwin, chemical reactions, chlorophyll, chloroplasts, earth, heart, Inertia, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Moon, physical constants, rationality, science of purpose, teleology, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas}

“All Things Are Ordered to Their End”

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
January 15, 2024

Chemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

5}

In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 8, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alexander Vilenkin, BGV, Big Bang, Big Think, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, causality, Ethan Siegel, Kalam cosmological argument, photon, quantum mechanics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Hawking, universe}

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Again Desperately Attempts to Avoid a Cosmic Beginning

_{Brian Miller
November 8, 2021

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

6}

If the model were plausible, the level of fine-tuning would represent even greater evidence of design than it was intended to avoid by removing the beginning. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 7, 2017

Categories
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, causality, disorder, entropy, final cause, Joseph Carter, nature, New York Times, order, purpose, teleology, University of Georgia}

Does Nature Show Purpose? Reply to a Materialist Philosopher

_{Michael Egnor
August 7, 2017

Philosophy, Physical Sciences

4}

Aristotelian teleology is, as Joseph Carter points out, manifested by order in nature. More precisely, teleology is consistency: natural processes tend to consistent ends. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 11, 2016

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __tedited, causality, complex specified information, epigenetic inheritance, functional complexity, non-coding DNA, Royal Society, viewpoint diversity}

From a Confidential Informant, Notes on Day 2 of the Royal Society Meeting

_{David Klinghoffer
November 11, 2016

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Note his succinct running commentary. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 9, 2016

Categories
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, __edited, __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract reasoning, abstract thought, animal intelligence, animal languages, causality, human exceptionalism, human mind, human nature, human reason, language, logic, Nature Genetics, universals}

Is Your Cat Logical?

_{Michael Egnor
July 9, 2016

Philosophy, Science

6}

Goodness gracious, this stuff never stops. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 23, 2016

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __tedited, accountability, atheism, begging the question, causality, circular causality, cosmic beginning, deism, empiricism, genetic fallacy, God Hypothesis, ground of existence, intelligent agency, motivated reasoning, natural evil, rationality, scientific debate, self-refutation, teleology, theism}

The Rowe-Grayling Debate

_{Michael Egnor
June 23, 2016

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

7}

Grayling's problem is not merely his frank incompetence in open debate (you can understand his penchant for censorship). Read More ›

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Author
Steve Laufmann

Date
May 31, 2016

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __tedited, causal agents, causality, causation, defining terms, demarcation criteria, falsifiability, historical sciences, inference to the best explanation, methodological materialism, methodology, motivated reasoning, objectivity, observability, predictive-success, presuppositions, pseudoscience, scientific method, scientific reasoning, testability, worldview}

Foundational Question: Is Intelligent Design Science?

_{Steve Laufmann
May 31, 2016

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

7}

It's long been said that the path to the right answers lies in asking the right questions. Read More ›