Tag: falsifiability

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 26, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain organoids, cancel culture, chickens, Christof Koch, consciousness, Copernican Principle of Consciousness, Debrief, degenerating paradigm, Essentia Foundation, falsifiability, Frontiers in Science, Hans Busstra, Imre Lakatos, machines, Marxism, neuroscientists, predictions, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Science Daily, testability, Tim McMillan, Wiliam Hunter}

Got Any Theories of Consciousness? Sure, About 325 of Them

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 26, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Consciousness research may be a degenerating paradigm. Philosopher Imre Lakatos used the term to refer to a situation where science is not progressing. Read More ›

footprints and a car in the snow, a car stuck in a large pile of snow

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 27, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, bacterial flagella, biochemists, bioinformatics, debates, demarcation criteria, DNA, Douglas Axe, falsifiability, glacial-interglacial cycles, God of the gaps, ID the Future, irreducibly complex systems, Keith Fox, Michael Behe, Peter S. Williams, philosophers, predictions, protein folds, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, Tim McGrew, type III secretion system, Unbelievable?}

Debating Intelligent Design, Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 27, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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With DNA replication, it is unclear what other systems any of the components might be co-opted from. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
December 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, chewing, common descent, Epicurus, evolution, evolutionists, falsifiability, flat tire, Imre Lakatos, intelligent design, organs, predictions, teeth, teleology, testability}

Ultra-Conserved Elements: New Paper, Same Old Results

_{Cornelius Hunter
December 2, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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UCEs are conserved structures that are not functionally constrained. Yet there is not so much as a hint of a problem for evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 12, 2017

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, Columbia University, consciousness, Cosmos (series), evidence, fake news, falsifiability, hype, illusions, multiverse, naturalism, Normal Science, Occam's Razor, panspermia, Peter Woit, post-truth, Scientific American, scientific reliability, simulation theory, Templeton Foundation}

How Naturalism Rots Science from the Head Down

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 12, 2017

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

5}

The prevalence of, for example, fake physics, shows that we are in the midst of a philosophical decline. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
October 27, 2016

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, absence of evidence, argument from ignorance, circular reasoning, Darwinian theory, evidence for id, experimental science, falsifiability, gradualism, Irreducible Complexity, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, logic, Michael Ruse, molecular biology, positive case for design, presuppositions, Response to Criticism, testability, theistic evolution}

Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design: A Response to Critics

_{Michael Behe
October 27, 2016

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Some reviewers of Darwin's Black Box raised philosophical objections. I will discuss several of these. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 29, 2016

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __tedited, academic freedom, falsifiability, intellectual freedom, objectivity, political correctness}

A Trigger Warning for Criticisms of Darwinism?

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 29, 2016

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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David Moshman helps explain the threat to academic freedom that we see in the study of evolution and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 24, 2016

Categories
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __tedited, evolutionary assumptions, falsifiability, scientific method, settled science}

The Devil May Not Be in the Details — But the Truth Is

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 24, 2016

Scientific Reasoning

3}

It's common to hear evolution presented as a nearly impregnable theory. Read More ›

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post

Author
Steve Laufmann

Date
May 31, 2016

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __tedited, causality, causation, defining terms, demarcation criteria, falsifiability, historical sciences, inference to the best explanation, methodological materialism, methodology, motivated reasoning, objectivity, predictive-success, presuppositions, pseudoscience, scientific method, scientific reasoning, testability, worldview}

Foundational Question: Is Intelligent Design Science?

_{Steve Laufmann
May 31, 2016

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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It's long been said that the path to the right answers lies in asking the right questions. Read More ›

Demonstration of osteopathic techniques on the pelvis

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 18, 2015

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, coccyx, falsifiability, The Myth of Human Tails, vestigial structures}

From the Steadily Shrinking Catalogue of "Functionless," "Vestigial" Organs: Now, the Tailbone

_{Casey Luskin
February 18, 2015

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The theory of intelligent design does not demand that the coccyx be medically indispensable. Read More ›

Aerial of Sunset in Princeton New Jersey

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 24, 2012

Categories
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, defining science, demarcation criteria, falsifiability, Karl Popper, Larry Laudan, National Academy of Sciences, pseudoscience, Robert Pennock, testability}

Princeton Historian: Falsifiability Not a Requirement of Science

_{Casey Luskin
September 24, 2012

Philosophy of Science

4}

"The renowned philosopher Karl Popper coined the term 'demarcation problem' to describe the quest to distinguish science from pseudoscience. He also proposed a solution." Read More ›