Tag: Evolution “On Purpose”

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, artifacts, artwork, axes, biology, cats' claws, causality, chairs, conveyances, cups, DNA, dwellings, E.O. Wilson, emergence, enzymes, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, final causality, Francis Bacon, human artifacts, Immanuel Kant, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jacques Monod, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leonard Susskind, Life Itself, Ludwig Wittgenstein, machines, mechanics, Michael Behe, Neo-Darwinism, purpose, randomness-selection hypothesis, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, rockets, science of purpose, Sir Martin Rees, spoons, St. Thomas Aquinas, Stephen Hawking, structure-function relationship, telos, Theodosius Dobzhansky, tools, William Dembski, windmills}

What Is the Originating Source of Design in Organisms?

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 17, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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The genesis of structure-function relationships in human artifacts is as well understood as are their mechanics. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, abiogenesis, biocomplexity, biologists, Case Western Reserve University, credibility, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Freudian slip, grammar, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jan Spitzer, Journal of Molecular Evolution, methodological naturalism, MIT Press, Nita Sahai, origin of life, Peter Corning, scientific establishment, Simona Ginsburg, teleological, teleology, teleonomic}

Is Intelligent Design Gaining the Upper Hand?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Trustworthiness

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The underlying dynamic here is one of fear — fear of being associated with a movement one cannot easily dispel through evidence and argument. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, amino acids, Aristotle, causation, chickens, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, evolutionary theorists, explanations, final cause, G.K. Chesterton, human body, intelligent design, laws of physics, life, materialism, Mereology, Mona Lisa, oncologists, purpose, purposefulness, quantum physics, science of purpose, screwdriver, Stephen J. Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, supernatural, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Theist Doctor, Materialist Doctor

_{Daniel Witt
September 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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To be a good medical doctor, you have to treat the human body as if its parts have purpose and function. There’s really no way around it. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Andréa Morris, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Evolution News, Forbes, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Joana Xavier, MIT Press, neo-Darwinists, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, Perry Marshall, persecution, physiologists, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy}

Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble: Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

_{Daniel Witt and David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

11}

We were wondering when the (often very dramatic) claims made recently in arcane academic texts would begin making more of a splash in the popular media. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 28, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, biological systems, cooption, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Immanuel Kant, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Joana Xavier, Last Universal Common Ancestor, life, LUCA, Michael Behe, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Stuart Kauffman}

“Irreducible Complexity” May Be Part of the Definition of Life

_{Daniel Witt
June 28, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

There are many bad counter-arguments to Michael Behe’s famous irreducible complexity conundrum, and (in my opinion) one pretty good one. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent 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 ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrea Roli, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Dalton, Douglas Axe, Epicureanism, Epicurus, Evolution “On Purpose”, flukes, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, Michael Behe, New York City, On the Nature of Things, philosophers, predictions, Stuart Kauffman, universe, University of Bologna, worldview}

Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent-Design Argument

_{Daniel Witt
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Translation: Everything that exists was made not by intelligent design, but rather by the random arrangement and rearrangement of atoms. Read More ›

Close-up of a bacterium under a microscope, with vivid purple and pink colors highlighting cellular details.

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaea, Arthur S. Reber, bacteria, cells, cellular basis of consciousness, cellular cognition, cognition, consciousness, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, František Baluška, fungal mind, fungi, intelligent design, mind, minds, Neo-Darwinism, Peter Corning, protozoans, sentience, unguided evolution, William B. Miller Jr.}

Was God a Bacterium?

_{Daniel Witt
April 11, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We should acknowledge that this theory is, unlike some similar attempts, at least an actual solution: if true, it would explain how complex life evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chickens, eggs, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, First Cause, intelligent design, living systems, Michael Behe, MIT Press, natural genetic engineering, Peter Corning, Platonic forms, purposiveness, symbiogenesis, teleonomy, William A. Dembski}

Design Without a Designer? New Book Says Yes!

_{Daniel Witt
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

So, does the teleonomic explanation hold up? Well, we have to ask: where does “teleonomy” come from? Why does it exist? Read More ›