Tag: epistemology

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __featured1, Adam Rutherford, African savannah elephant, animal kingdom, BBC, bodies, cells, Chris Packham, creator, Current Biology, David Coppedge, documentary, DoorDash, elephant trunk, elephants, epistemology, Evolution (TV series), gills, Harvard University, inventor, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, lungs, mammals, Mary Droser, methodology, muscular hydrostat, musculature, mutations, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Noel Naughton, NOVA PBS, Peter Girguis, phylogenetic analysis, presuppositions, Richard Buggs, UC Riverside}

In NOVA Evolution Series, Biological Novelties “Arrive” as if Ordered from DoorDash

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2026

Biology, Evolution

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The question of how bodies are actually built remains as unclear at the end of these 54 minutes as it was at the beginning. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 21, 2023

Categories
Science Reporting
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, cars, Charles Sanders Peirce, consciousness, epistemology, immaterial reality, John Dewey, John Horgan, Matt Ridley, Nautilus, Philip Ball, science writers, scientism, Stanford University, The End of Science}

For a Change, Science Writers Think Critically About Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 21, 2023

Science Reporting, Scientific Trustworthiness

6}

They can be quite interesting when they allow themselves to play around with ideas a bit. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 30, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, black hole, epistemology, knowledge, Politics, science}

Science, Knowledge, and the “Epistemic Horizon”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 30, 2016

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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In reply to Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kevin Williamson offers the profound image of a limit to knowledge like the "event horizon" of a black hole. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 19, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __cedited, anti-science, debate, epistemology, language, Views}

What’s Wrong with the Terms "Anti-Science" and "Anti-Evolution"?

_{David Klinghoffer
February 19, 2016

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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A colleague forwards to me a confused article dealing with "antievolution state laws," aka academic freedom legislation. Read More ›