Tag: explanations

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 11, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, biologists, causes, conscious experience, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, explanations, free will, gravity, infinite chain, infinite regress, movement, neuroscientists, Peter Corning, philosophers, physical universe, physicists, promissory note, quantum mechanics, Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, turtles, universe}

Revenge of the Turtle Lady

_{Daniel Witt
March 11, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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You’ve probably heard the story about the old lady who tells a Famous Professor that the world is actually sitting on the back of giant turtle. 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
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

6}

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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Date
September 14, 2017

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, causation, evolution, explanations, hypothesis, intelligent design, Journal of Molecular Evolution, logic, materialism, supernatural, UCLA, unintelligent causes}

Reaching the “Limits” of Material Explanations — Can It Be Done?

_{Science and Culture
September 14, 2017

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

"Science is a game with one defining rule," writes UCLA biochemist Richard E. Dickerson. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 18, 2017

Categories
Cosmology
Philosophy of Science
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __nedited, explanations, fine-tuning, general relativity, logical possibility, many-worlds hypothesis, multiverse, multiverse theory, Nautilus, Principle of Plenitude, Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), problem of evil, theoretical physics}

How Physicists Learned to Love the Multiverse

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 18, 2017

Cosmology, Philosophy of Science, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

6}

The Principle of Plenitude, an idea with a long history, holds that everything that can exist will exist. Read More ›

Large red deer stag walking towards the camera

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post

Date
November 6, 2016

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, designer, explanations, fear mongering, law of non-contradiction, limited claim, limits of science, materialism, methodological naturalism, rhetoric, sciences, theistic evolution}

Horns of a Dilemma: Does Intelligent Design Do Too Little — or Too Much?

_{Science and Culture
November 6, 2016

Intelligent Design

3}

There's no pleasing some people. Read More ›

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Author
Jay W. Richards

Date
April 2, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Alvin Plantinga, appearance of design, Asa Gray, BioLogos, Christianity, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, defining science, defining terms, Elliott Sober, equivocation, evidence, evolution, explanations, failure to elucidate, fallacy of ambiguity, flagellum, integration, intelligent design, material cause, Michael Behe, mutations, naturalism, Normal Science, point mutations, random, randomness, reductio ad absurdum, Scientia, scientific theory, teleology, theism, Thomas Kuhn, Where the Conflict Really Lies}

What’s in a Word? “Randomness” in Darwinism and the Scientific Theory of Evolution

_{Jay W. Richards
April 2, 2012

Evolution, Faith & Science

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This is the third in a series of reviews of Alvin Plantinga's important new book, Where the Conflict Really Lies. Read More ›