Tag: Francisco Ayala

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, acorn, Aristotle, chance, Chance and Necessity, Francisco Ayala, Greek, information, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jacques Monod, Jay Richards, Marcos Eberlin, matter, Metaphysics (book), Michelangelo’s David, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, nature, possibilities, probability, Richard Dawkins, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, Shakespearean sonnet, specified complexity, systems, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Aquinas, tree, William Shakespeare}

Building a Better Definition of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
July 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

41}

Definitional change in science is par for the course: As paradigms shift because of scientific advances, textbook definitions change. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biogeography, complementarity, Douglas Futuyma, dysteleology, embryology, evolution, Evolution News, faith and science, Francis Collins, Francisco Ayala, George Williams, God-talk, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, marsupials, methodological naturalism, Niles Eldredge, NOMA, paleontology, Panda's Thumb, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, textbooks, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology}

Does the Panda Argument Hurt the Case for Evolution?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Gould cannot have it both ways: either theology-laden arguments are legitimate within scientific discourse or not. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, biological origins, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Copernican principle, cosmic design, cosmic origins, creation, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, epigenetic information, faith and science, fossil record, Francisco Ayala, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, heliocentrism, humans, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, Nicolaus Copernicus, Poland, Poles, Renaissance, Richard Sternberg, solar system, universe}

Faith, Science, and Secularization — An Illuminating Conference in Poland

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
June 20, 2023

Astronomy, Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

5}

Similar to many others among the founders of modern science, Copernicus was a believer in God and clearly a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeoraptor, cheetahs, China, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francisco Ayala, fraud, junk science, New World, Pleistocene, PNAS, Russia, Science (journal), skull}

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

_{Günter Bechly
June 16, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, antiquity, Apostle Paul, Aristotle, atomism, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, evolution, Francisco Ayala, Hippocrates, intelligent design, Lucretius, materialism, Modern Synthesis, natural processes, Neo-Darwinism, Plato, population genetics, Romans, Science and Faith in Dialogue, teleology}

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 9, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

5}

Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, creator, faith, Francisco Ayala, Frederik van Niekerk, humanity, intellectuals, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, natural selection, Nico Vorster, NOMA, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert Boyle, Science and Faith in Dialogue, soul, William of Ockham, worldview}

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 4, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Epistemology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics

8}

For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 27, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, creationists, Darwinism, Dave Farina, Encyclopedia Britannica, Ernst Mayr, evolution, evolutionary biology, fact check, Francisco Ayala, Modern evolutionary synthesis, Professor Dave, Richard Dawkins, S. Joshua Swamidass, Stephen Jay Gould, Wikipedia}

Fact-Checking “Professor Dave”: Is the Term “Darwinism” Really Used Only by “Creationists”?

_{Günter Bechly
May 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

As this nonsense is so often found in Internet forums, I here provide the peer-reviewed scientific evidence to put the point to rest once and for all. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 8, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, bacterium, complexity, compound eye, cornea, Cosmos (series), David Berlinski, evolution, eye, Francis Collins, Francisco Ayala, iris, Jerry Coyne, Karl Giberson, lens, light-sensitive spot, Michael Behe, mutations, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Scott Gilbert, Sean B. Carroll, Swarthmore College, The New Republic, vertebrates}

What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design and What Are Its Theistic Implications?

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 23, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

4}

Before Darwin, biologists attributed the beauty, integrated complexity, and adaptation of organisms to their environments to a powerful designing intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
June 2, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, atomism, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Craig Keener, Darrel Falk, Dogs, Epicureanism, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, fossil record, Francisco Ayala, genes, genetic variations, Gerd Müller, Hugo de Vries, intelligent design, materialists, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Paul, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Stoics, The Blind Watchmaker}

Darrel Falk Downplays the Ramifications of the 2016 Royal Society Meeting

_{Brian Miller
June 2, 2021

Evolution

7}

The meeting exposed the reality, hidden from the public, that leading evolutionary theorists recognize that natural selection has no real creative power. Read More ›