human cells Type post Author Daniel Witt Date May 21, 2024 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , "God of the gaps", Andrea Roli, argument from ignorance, blacks, élan vital, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Huffington Post, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, James Barham, James Shapiro, Peter Corning, Racism, Stuart A. Kauffman, University of Chicago, vital force, vitalism Is Vitalism Making a Comeback? Daniel Witt May 21, 2024 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 8 For proponents of ID, there is a natural temptation to respond to this sort of explanation with derision. I suspect this reaction may be short-sighted. Read More ›
Charles-darwin-portrait-sitting-on-chair-sketch 2 Type post Author Robert F. Shedinger Date July 7, 2020 CategoriesEvolutionScience Education Tagged , Alfred Tennyson, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, élan vital, evolution, evolutionary biology, Galileo Galilei, Genetics (journal), George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, Harvard School of Public Health, heliocentric model, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Cairns, Joseph Conrad, Karl Marx, Max Delbrück, Nicolaus Copernicus, Peter Bowler, Ptolemaic system, randomness, religion, Salvador Luria, Sigmund Freud, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Kuhn The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution Robert Shedinger July 7, 2020 Evolution, Science Education 7 The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›
La_Valse Type post Author Michael Flannery Date July 27, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionMetaphysicsPhilosophy Tagged , __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Christianity, élan vital, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Harvard University, Henri Bergson, idealism, John Elof Boodin, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, paleontology, pantheism, positivism, pragmatism, realism, Stephen Hawking, William James Who Was John Elof Boodin and Why Does He Matter? Michael Flannery July 27, 2018 Evolution, Metaphysics, Philosophy 4 Boodin’s view that science and metaphysics could mutually inform one another was full of promise. Read More ›
