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Date
October 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, causation, ID the Future, materialism, Michael Denton, origins science, podcast, Privileged Species, Reductionism}

In Biological Origins, Bottom-Up or Top-Down Causation?

_{Science & Culture
October 24, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Michael Denton says that the evidence has been growing for top-down causation, which poses a challenge to reductionist and materialistic origins science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, accident, Aristotle, atheism, causation, cellular metabolism, chance, complexity, Darwinism, deism, evolution, Fifth Way, final cause, Five Ways, intelligent design, material cause, natural science, nature, order, patterns, purpose, specification, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, watchmaker}

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

_{Michael Egnor
October 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics

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What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 15, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Big Bang, causation, change, existence, Five Ways, law of non-contradiction, logic, Moon, potency, sun, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight

_{Michael Egnor
October 15, 2019

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 7, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, causation, Darwinists, data, evidence, foresight, Heretic, ID the Future, intelligent causes, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Marcos Eberlin, Matti Leisola, natural causes, podcast, prejudice, science}

Marcos Eberlin Has a Remarkable New Definition of Science

_{David Klinghoffer
May 7, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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He suggests to me yet another good question to ask the next Darwinist you meet. Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Being as Communion, blind search, Brian Miller, causation, Claude Shannon, Conservation of Information, David Snoke, David Wolpert, entropy, Eric Anderson, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Great Barrier Reef, information, information theory, Interface Focus, materialism, Michael Keas, No Free Lunch theorems, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Royal Society, Santa Fe Institute, semantic information, Shannon information, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski}

Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?

_{Science & Culture
December 10, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics. Read More ›

Golden Sunset Reflecting On A Breaking Ocean Wave

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Epistemology
History of Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotelianism, Big Bang, causation, Ed Feser, Enlightenment, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, knowledge, Maimonides, materialism, nature, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, philosophers, power, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, scientific revolution, scientists, Steven Pinker, Thomas Aquinas}

Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2018

Epistemology, History of Science, Metaphysics

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A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 12, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, annelids, arthropods, bird feathers, birds, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cancer theory, causation, Charles Marshall, chordates, clades, compound eyes, correlation, Günter Bechly, insects, mammals, mollusks, Neo-Darwinism, oxygen theory, Richard Dawkins, slime theory, Stephen Meyer, tetrapods, The Greatest Show on Earth, theistic evolution, University of Bristol}

Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans

_{Günter Bechly
September 12, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Recently, a team of British paleontologists added a new pseudo-explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 7, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, causation, common descent, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, John West, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Neoplatonism, principle of utility, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Edge of Evolution, The World of Life, theology}

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

_{Michael Flannery
August 7, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Wallace was the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. He later broke with Darwin over the question of teleology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
May 14, 2018

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Aquinas and Evolution, Aristotle, Bible, causation, creation, devolution, evolution, faith and science, form, macroevolution, Public Discourse, revelation, species, Stephen Jay Gould, Summa Theologica, theistic evolution, theology, Thomas Aquinas}

The Five Arguments Stand: Response to a Critic on Aquinas and Evolution

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
May 14, 2018

Biology, Faith & Science

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In my book, I argue that Thomas Aquinas’ teaching cannot be reconciled with theistic evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 21, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, ATP, bipedalism, causation, contingency, evolution, First Cause, heartbeat, infinity, PZ Myers, sunlight, tiktaalik, universe}

Helpful Atheist Makes a Case for God

_{Michael Egnor
January 21, 2018

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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“If only Tiktaalik had inherited three pairs of stubby little old fins we’d be centaurs now.” Read More ›