Tag: emergence

Happy businessman, walking and city to work for travel on street or pedestrian crossing outdoors. Black man on cross road, walk or traveling to business with suit and smile on asphalt in urban town

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 6, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured2, astigmatism, athletes, awareness, body parts, cars, consciousness, cornea, curvature, emergence, engineering, eyeglasses, headlights, hearing, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, lens, prescription, proprioception, purpose, routine tasks, Secrets of the Human Body, Steve Laufmann, street, three dimensions, vision, walking, Your Amazing Body}

Living in 3-D: Not a Big Deal? New Video Explains Why It’s a VERY Big Deal

_{David Klinghoffer
November 6, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Living in three dimensions is crucial not only for athletes, who excel at exploiting the body’s abilities, but for any one of us walking down the street. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, __recommended, abstraction, aeronautics, airflow, airfoil, Albert Einstein, anatomy, antennae, arches, Aristotle, balloons, biology, bird wings, black-body radiation, duality, emergence, engineering, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, footballs, formalisms, function, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, mathematicians, Michael Behe, molecular biology, parachutes, physics, physiology, Pierre-Simon Laplace, pistons, propellers, pulleys, radiators, René Descartes, Return of the God Hypothesis, rockets, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, Stephen Meyer, structure, structure-function dualism, structure-function relationship, Werner Heisenberg, What Is Life?, wing}

Emergence and Irreducible Complexity: A Unified Theory

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We are all familiar with the duality — structure and function — from both technology and biology. Read More ›

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
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, autopoiesis, bacteria, biologists, Charles Darwin, diversification, emergence, Forensics, Gandalf, Harry Potter, intelligence, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mendelian genetics, Michael Behe, microscopes, molecular structures, Mount Doom, Neo-Darwinism, panpsychism, random variation, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, self-organization, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy, universe}

Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic?

_{Daniel Witt
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 1, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, ancient Greece, civilization, color, complexity, creator, doctors, E.O. Wilson, emergence, emotion, empirical science, engineers, human mind, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, knowing, memory, photon, quantum mechanics, René Descartes, science of purpose, scientific method, scientism, sound, theology, thought, vision, wave function, Werner Heisenberg}

Understanding the Limits of Scientism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 1, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The great impasse in empirical science was reached early in the 20th century when quantum mechanics was first being developed. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
September 28, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aristotle, biomolecules, Charles Darwin, CHNOPS, embryogenesis, emergence, Etienne Gilson, evolution, function, Galileo Galilei, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life, Nicolaus Copernicus, parts, primordial soup, science of purpose, structure, telos, Thomas Aquinas}

Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 28, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aardvarks, biomolecules, cancer, chemical elements, chloroplasts, CHNOPS, DNA, emergence, ententional, Human Genome Project, illness, Irreducible Complexity, John Stuart Mill, materialistic science, neologism, organisms, Reductionism, science of purpose, Terrence Deacon, zebras}

Emergence by Design

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 30, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, caterpillars, consciousness, emergence, empathy, evolutionary theory, explanations, Genesis, intelligence, materialism, mind, monotheism, promissory materialism, religion, RNA, robotics}

In Some Science Contexts, “Emergence” Really Means “We Don’t Know How”

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2023

Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", algorithms, artificial intelligence, computers, consciousness, creativity, emergence, experience, human brain, immortality, mimicry, Non-Computable You, qualia, robots, sentience, Steven Spielberg, strong AI, understanding}

No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 24, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps. Read More ›