Tag: “God of the gaps” | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 12, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", argument from ignorance, convergence, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian mechanism, Dave Farina, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Galápagos Islands, genetic information, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, macroevolution, Martin Nowak, Michael Behe, microevolution, mutations, peer-reviewed journals, Professor Dave, speciation, Stephen Meyer, waiting-time problem, young people, YouTubers}

“Crazy Stuff”? Dave Farina on the Waiting Time Problem

_{Günter Bechly
December 12, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The formulation “crazy stuff” of course implicitly suggests that this is a pseudo-problem invented by evil and stupid creationists. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", ad hoc hypotheses, Big Think, Dartmouth College, David Klinghoffer, Eugene Koonin, Evolution News, First Cause, Gottfried Leibniz, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Durston, multiverse, universe}

Physicist: “The Multiverse Is a Lot Like God”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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I have to admit it makes me smile to think Professor Gleiser’s thoughts ahead of him. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", algorithms, artificial intelligence, computers, consciousness, creativity, emergence, experience, human brain, immortality, mimicry, Non-Computable You, qualia, robots, sentience, understanding}

No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 24, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Christianity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, dark energy, dark matter, ether, Galileo Galilei, Hebrew Bible, Isaac Newton, John West, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Reformation, Renaissance, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholic, scientists, theism}

Stephen Meyer Takes Questions, Including: “Has Science Matured Past Its Christian Origins?”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 2, 2022

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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Granted that the early scientists were Christians, does it follow that science necessarily supports Christianity or any form of theism? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", argument from ignorance, BioLogos Foundation, Brown University, Charles Marshall, CSI, Denis Lamoureux, evolution, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, paleontologists, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), UC Berkeley, University of Alberta}

Using the Positive Case for Intelligent Design to Answer Common Objections to ID

_{Casey Luskin
May 4, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As for the “God of the gaps” charge, the basic objection is that ID is an argument from ignorance, based upon what we don’t know. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Communism, Cristian Bandea, Darwinism, Eric Metaxas, evolution, Freudianism, intelligent design, Is Atheism Dead?, judge, Karl Marx, materialistic science, natural law, Percy Bysshe Shelley, poets, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Meyer, The Return to the God Paradigm (series)}

Materialist Science as Paternalistic Propaganda

_{Neil Thomas
December 14, 2021

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Any attempt to demonstrate the sheer untenability of Darwinian postulates is just met with an ever-closer circling of the wagons. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 13, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", bacterial flagellum, Big Bang, Christianity, cosmic design, cosmic fine-tuning, Craig Venter, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, evolution, Francis Collins, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Denton, New Atheists, non-coding DNA, physical constants, Richard Dawkins, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, testability, The Language of God, Wired Magazine}

Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

_{Jonathan Witt
October 13, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›

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Date
September 26, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", books, critics, intelligent design, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, multiverse, New Atheists, podcast, Rabbi Moshe Averick}

Rabbi Moshe Averick Deflates the Multiverse, and the New Atheists

_{Science & Culture
September 26, 2021

Faith & Science, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Rabbi Averick shares his spirited takedown of the multiverse theory for the origin of life, and dismantles the “God of the Gaps” objection to ID. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Allison Hopper, alt-right, Arizona, atheism, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Dan Falk, Darwinism, earth, evolution, fiction, Human Zoos, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, James Croft, John West, Kirk Durston, meaning, multiverse, purpose, Racism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scientific American, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, Thomas Nagel, universe}

From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The upshot of the best modern biology and cosmology can be epitomized by changing just one word in physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous comment. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", biologists, Eugene Koonin, ideology, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Durston, multiverse, universe}

The Multiverse Is Some Scientists’ “God of the Gaps”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This brand of scientific ideology requires a “God of the gaps” — Eugene Koonin’s “present model” — to explain away mysteries like the origin of life. Read More ›