Tag: explanatory power

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, biology, bird beaks, Charles Darwin, circular reasoning, Darwinism, ENCODE project, evidence, evolution, explanatory power, François Jacob, frogs, genome, homologous features, Karl Marx, Karl Popper, philosophy of science, psychologists, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud}

Why Evolution Is Undeniable

_{Daniel Witt
July 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The challenges continue to pile up, but the pile never gets any bigger because each piece of contrary evidence is reinterpreted for “general reasons.” Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle, body, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, earth, explanatory power, Heaven, John Dewey, Joshua Farris, Karl Marx, matter, mind, modus tollens, On the Origin of Species, personhood, Plato, René Descartes, Sigmund Freud, soul, Thomas Aquinas}

What Is Primary: Mind or Matter?

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 27, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

9}

The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 31, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, Andrew McDiarmid, cosmic inflation, cosmic origins, Discovery Institute, explanatory power, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Ockham’s razor, predictions, Return of the God Hypothesis, Salvo Magazine, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Four Reasons the Multiverse Fails as Science

_{David Klinghoffer
January 31, 2023

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

3}

The multiverse theory has been embraced as a defense against what Stephen Meyer calls the God Hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, chronology, CSI, data, dependency graph, Douglas Axe, explanatory power, function, gene sequences, intelligent agents, intelligent design, junk DNA, observations, predictions, scientists, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), Winston Ewert}

Does Intelligent Design Make Predictions or Retrodictions?

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

I would argue that a chronology of exactly what was predicted when is not dispositive as to whether a positive argument can be made. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, CSI, dependency graph, DNA, evolution, explanatory power, Forrest Mims, genomes, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, medicine, Michael Behe, mutations, Nature Reviews Genetics, nested hierarchy, predictions, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Science (journal), Scientific American, selection, software, Susumu Ohno, systematics, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), The Selfish Gene, Winston Ewert}

Does Darwinian Theory Make the Same Predictions as Intelligent Design?

_{Casey Luskin
May 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

11}

Richard Dawkins predicted that “a large fraction” of our genomes has no function, because, “The true ‘purpose’ of DNA is to survive, no more and no less." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 9, 2016

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, Darwinian medicine, evolutionary explanations, explanatory power, Health & Wellness, Randolph Nesse}

Against “Darwinian Medicine”

_{Michael Egnor
August 9, 2016

Medicine

5}

Randolph Nesse laid out his vision of medical science informed by Darwinian speculations two decades ago. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
June 17, 2016

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Tagged
, __tedited, common descent, common design, convergence, design motifs, emergence, Endogenous retroviruses, explanatory power, genetic code, logic, origin of information, placenta, predictions, probabilities, separate ancestry, syllogism, V.J. Torley}

The Placenta Problem: How Common Descent Fails

_{Ann Gauger
June 17, 2016

Biology, Genetics

9}

Philosopher Vincent Torley (and Professor Josh Swamidass) have been trying to persuade me that common descent is the only rational view to affirm. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 12, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __tedited, agent causation, argument from analogy, Cambrian fossils, entropy, evolutionary biology, explanatory power, fossil record, gradualism, intelligent causation, methodological naturalism, scientific reasoning, The Origins of Life}

Why Should Evolutionary Biology Be So Different?

_{Granville Sewell
June 12, 2016

Evolution, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

9}

Joseph LeConte, professor of geology at the University of California, provides an insight into the way most scientists think about evolution. Read More ›

sign at the railroad station at the edge of the platform looking toward the tracks warning you to watch the gap

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post

Date
February 24, 2015

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, "God of the gaps", agency, agent causation, deism, designer, events, explanatory power, First Cause, free will, physicalism, promissory materialism}

This Weekend in California, Paul Nelson Will Speak on the "God of the Gaps" Challenge and the Explanatory Superiority of Design

_{Science and Culture
February 24, 2015

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

2}

You've heard the objection: The theory of intelligent design is nothing but a "God of the Gaps" argument. Read More ›

illustration of close-up chess board idea for tactic and strategy background theme, Generative Ai

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post

Author
Michael Behe

Date
February 27, 2014

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __nedited, __unspecified, cosmology, debate, explanatory power, First Cause, Kalam cosmological argument, metaphysics, multiverse theory, nothing, quantum cosmology, rhetorical strategies, theism}

From the Craig-Carroll Encounter, Discerning the Next Move on the Atheist Intellectual Chessboard

_{Michael Behe
February 27, 2014

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences

3}

As you may know, William Lane Craig debated physicist Sean Carroll in New Orleans last weekend. Read More ›