Tag: Elliott Sober

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birth, brain, conception, Elliott Sober, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, Evolution of the Brain, evolutionary theory, fetus, individuality, intelligent design, John C. Eccles, Karl Popper, lottery, Mehmet Elgin, mind, natural selection, neuroscience, purpose, purposeful nature, recant, recantation, spiritual creation, testability, The Self and Its Brain, theology, uniqueness}

Popper and Purposeful Nature: A Note on the So-Called “Recantation”

_{Michael Flannery
March 10, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A correspondent raises this famous statement of Karl Popper on natural selection, with his “historically loaded word ‘recant.’” Read More ›

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Author
Subboor Ahmad

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Social Sciences
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, agnostics, Angus Menuge, Christians, Darwinism, Debating Design, Elliott Sober, epigenetics, evolution, genomics, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, Michael Ruse, Muslims, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, New Atheism, Paul Davies, podcast, problems, puzzles, Richard Swinburne, Robert Pennock, self-organization, Stuart Kauffman, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

Dembski and Ruse Look Back on 20 Years of Debate — And a Special Anniversary

_{Subboor Ahmad
January 30, 2024

Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Social Sciences

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The protest about the “spectre of intelligent design” was telling. When critics start talking that way, you can’t help wondering if ID is onto something. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian gradualism, David A. Hullender, Denis Noble, Elliott Sober, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, intelligent design, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Niles Eldredge, Olen R. Brown, probability, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, punctuated equilibrium, Saint Augustine, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Templeton Foundation}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Cites Stephen Meyer to Critique Darwinian Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
March 16, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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"Many life forms with essentially new body types appeared quickly and without precursors in the Burgess Shale in Kicking Horse Valley in British Columbia." Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, Cambridge University Press, coin toss, cryptography, Darwinists, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Elliott Sober, evolution, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Hamlet, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, monograph, plagiarism, S. Joshua Swamidass, specified complexity, statistics, The Design Inference, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, University of Chicago, William Shakespeare, Winston Ewert}

The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs

_{William A. Dembski
June 17, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, Casey Luskin, Darwin's Doubt, Elliott Sober, Eric Cassell, Ernst Mayr, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, Granville Sewell, gravitation, Isaac Newton, Kirk Durston, National Academy of Sciences, naturalism, neo-Darwinian theory, No Free Lunch, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, punctuated equilibria, Richard Weikart, RNA, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, thermodynamics, vitalism, William A. Dembski}

Evolution Is Not Like Physics

_{David Coppedge
February 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Physical Sciences, Physics

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A new theory of evolution extends Darwinian processes, making them into physical laws based on “learning theory.” Read More ›

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Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, aesthetics, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Elliott Sober, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Karl Popper, materialists, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Nature (journal), Phillip E. Johnson, philosophers, PNAS, science, selection, Summer Seminars, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Nagel, William Whewell}

Philosophers Want Back into Science

_{Science & Culture
April 11, 2019

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 22, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, body plans, common descent, convergent evolution, Elliott Sober, embryonic development, gene expression, genes, homoplasy, organs, Thomas Henry Huxley}

How Embryonic Development Bears on Evolution

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 22, 2018

Evolution, Life Sciences

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In order for evolution to have occurred as the orthodox theory describes, the intricate embryonic development stages of species must have evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, common descent, Cornell University, Elliott Sober, Epicureanism, evolution, Harvard University, homology, religion}

Two Evolutionists Inadvertently Demolish Evolution

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 20, 2018

Evolution

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Yesterday we saw how, in a new paper, Warren Allmon and Robert Ross reformulate the argument for evolution from homologous structures. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
November 17, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, alphabet soup, dandelions, design intuition, dragonflies, Elliott Sober, eyes, functional coherence, glaciers, Hans Vodder, intelligent design, Mars, Mount Rushmore, mountains, probability, theistic evolution, Undeniable (book)}

Challenge to a Critic of the Design Intuition: How Do You Explain Your Own Use of It?

_{Douglas Axe
November 17, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Previously, I questioned a theistic evolutionist's claim that we can’t rule out chance as an explanation for something unless the probability of chance working can be calculated accurately. Read More ›

symbolic chart for creativity workshop | intuition and form | lyrical chaos | ethereal pastels | layered randomness | disjointed elements | concentric forms | pictorial improvisation | spiritual

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Author
Alvin Plantinga

Date
April 3, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Tagged
, __nedited, Christianity, conservatives, Darwinism, defining evolution, defining terms, descent with modification, Elliott Sober, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary psychology, integration, liberals, randomness, theistic evolution, undirected process, universal common ancestry}

Seeking an Official Definition of “Randomness”: A Reply to Jay Richards

_{Alvin Plantinga
April 3, 2012

Evolution, Faith & Science, Mathematics

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How do we tell exactly what the scientific theory of evolution is? There is no axiomatized presentation emblazoned on the walls of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Read More ›