Tag: causation

woman vaccinated and with a band-aid on her arm, giving a sign that all is well.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 25, 2025

Categories
Epistemology
Evolution
Tagged
, buzzwords, causation, complexity, cosmos, emergence, escape hatch, ignorance, John Heil, materialistic philosophy, philosophers, promissory materialism, scientists, Washington University}

Materialism’s Band-Aid, “Emergence” Is Bad Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 25, 2025

Epistemology, Evolution

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The idea is that some properties of systems emerge only after a certain level of complexity is reached. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, adaptation, Ann Gauger, biologic institute, bottles, causation, complexity, correlation, Darwinian mechanism, Douglas Axe, evidence, evolution, frosted cake, hype, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, interpretation, Marci Reeves, molecular biologists, mutations, narrative, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, podcast, potato, raw data, red wine, scientific consensus, scientific thinking, skin, terms, Undeniable (book), universal common descent}

Molecular Biologist Marci Reeves on the Principles of Scientific Thinking

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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She uses the analogy of a beautifully frosted cake. The bottom layer is the raw data, while additional layers include interpretation, narrative, and hype. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, brain, careers, causation, Christof Koch, Denyse O’Leary, divorce, epiphenomena, families, free will, friendships, grants, human trafficking, jobs, livelihoods, machines, marriages, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, moral responsibility, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, philosophers, Plato, preference falsification, promotions, Saint Augustine, scientists, sexual abuse, soul, The Immortal Mind, theologians, worldview}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Are We Meat Machines, and Why Does It Matter?

_{John Zmirak
August 28, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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I found yours to be a fascinating and persuasive book on a crucial subject. You lay out the issues starkly. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 3, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, atheists, biology, causation, Danni Askini, definist fallacy, disguised religion, doctors, dogmatism, faith and science, medication, methodological naturalism, natural, npr, preferred pronouns, reality, religion, religious language, religious terms, Seattle, supernatural, surgery, theistic evolutionists, trans identity, transgenderism}

More on Disguised Religion

_{David Klinghoffer
July 3, 2025

Faith & Science, Philosophy of Science

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Not in science or in any other context does one faith get to impose its terms on others. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, anticipation, August Weismann, Bible, biosphere, building blocks, causation, Chance and Necessity, chipmunks, cognition, Design Inference, DNA, electromagnetism, Ferrari, final cause, flowering plants, Ford Mustang, Francis Crick, grizzly bear, immanent power, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, James Hutchison Stirling, Jaques Monod, natural selection, natural theology, necessity, nectar, perch, pollinators, purpose, representational directedness, rodent, science of purpose, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, tuna, William A. Dembski, wolf}

Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 31, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Imagine a primordial grizzly bear on the northern edge of the forest adjacent to the Arctic. His soma senses the differences of the new environment. 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
September 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, amino acids, Aristotle, causation, chickens, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, evolutionary theorists, explanations, final cause, G.K. Chesterton, human body, intelligent design, laws of physics, life, materialism, Mereology, Mona Lisa, oncologists, purpose, purposefulness, quantum physics, science of purpose, screwdriver, Stephen J. Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, supernatural, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Theist Doctor, Materialist Doctor

_{Daniel Witt
September 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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To be a good medical doctor, you have to treat the human body as if its parts have purpose and function. There’s really no way around it. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, Carl Woese, causation, cells, Chance and Necessity, David Hume, dispositionalism, Evolution News, final cause, intentionality, Isaac Newton, Jacques Monod, Michael Behe, organelle, powers ontology, purpose, René Descartes, science of purpose, telos, The Design Inference, Walter Elsasser, William A. Dembski}

Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 12, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 16, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, causation, coding, David Berlinski, Hoover Institution, information, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, John West, laws of nature, materialism, nature, Newton’s Gift, Peter Robinson, Richard Dawkins, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, The Magician's Twin, universe}

The Magician’s Twin: A Conversation with Stephen Meyer, James Orr, and David Berlinski

_{David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Citing C. S. Lewis, Dr. Meyer calls the drama of materialism’s unravelling a kind “repentance.” Read More ›

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Date
March 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, brain, calculation, causation, consciousness, feelings, logic, materialist philosophies, mind, right, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, sensations, soul, thinking, thoughts, wrong}

Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

_{Science and Culture
March 17, 2024

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Keith Ward explains how we can know that the mind is not simply what the brain does. Read More ›