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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, empirical science, evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William A. Dembski, zoologists}

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 28, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Berlin, Cologne, Darwinism, German, intelligent design, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, University of Bonn, volcano, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Intelligent Design, Ahead of Its Time: More on W. E. Lönnig’s 1971 Thesis

_{Granville Sewell
June 28, 2021

Intelligent Design

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In his youth, Dr. Lönnig bravely opposed dogma that was almost universally accepted and perilous to question. Read More ›

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Date
April 20, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Brian Keating, creator, history, ID the Future, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, multiverse, quantum cosmology, Return of the God Hypothesis, solar system, Stephen Hawking, universe, University of Cambridge, USA Today}

Meyer: Quantum Cosmology, the Multiverse, and Stephen Hawking

_{Science & Culture
April 20, 2021

Faith & Science, Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences

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Newton, Kepler, and other founders of modern science were inspired to search out and find the rational order hidden in nature because they were theists. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
April 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", information, intelligent design, materialism, methodological naturalism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Lewontin, science stopper, scientists, Stephen Meyer}

Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum

_{Bethel McGrew
April 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Scientists who label intelligent design as a “God of the gaps” argument are not unlike the incensed man in the art gallery. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Alpha Centauri, Bayes’ Theorem, cosmic fine-tuning, hydrogen, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, jackpot, living cells, Lydia McGrew, prior probability, probability}

Applying Bayes’ Theorem to Biological Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 15, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy

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Suppose we want to know the odds that a particular individual won last week’s Mega Millions jackpot in the United States. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, "God of the gaps", American Association for the Advancement of Science, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, ideology, industrial melanism, John Haught, Luther College, Michael Ruse, peppered moth, religion, Roman Catholic, scholars, science, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, theology}

Have Religion Scholars Been Deceived by Darwin?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 14, 2019

Evolution

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On the relationship between religion on science, few scholars have been more influential than the late Ian Barbour, a physicist and theologian. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
August 2, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, "God of the gaps", archeology, CERN, Cold War, DNA, fingerprints, Forensics, functional information, genomes, intelligence, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, James Tour, Large Hadron Collider, Michael Behe, ocean, Robert Hazen, scientific method, SETI, smartphones, Stephen Meyer}

A Scientific Method for Design Detection

_{Kirk Durston
August 2, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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My first exposure to intelligent design detection in science took place during a summer job with National Defence Research in 1978 as an engineering student. Read More ›

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Date
March 7, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", ID the Future, ignorance, Nonsense of a High Order, perpetual motion machine, podcast, Rabbi Moshe Averick, skepticism}

Averick Takes on the “God of the Gaps” Objection

_{Science & Culture
March 7, 2019

Intelligent Design, Physics

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He offers as an illustration the widespread skepticism in the physics community toward the possibility of anyone ever building a perpetual motion machine. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 22, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", Darwinian theory, David Klinghoffer, debate, Douglas Axe, human life, ideology, intelligent design, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kevin Williamson, lawyers, Michael Behe, natural selection, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Research, science, Stephen Meyer, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Stifling the Intelligent Design Debate Is Bad Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 22, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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Kevin Williamson deploys an absurd reductionist construct of the ID field as consisting of ideological assertions by “lawyers” and “amateurs.” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 28, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", bats, behavior, body plans, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, design intuition, development, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, evolutionary theory, Galileo Galilei, genera, genetic variations, Harvard University, innovation, intelligent design, mammals, Michael Denton, philosophers, physiology, postdoc, Research, Royal Society, species, telescope, theologians, whales}

The Intelligent Design Underground and Other Reflections

_{Brian Miller
December 28, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A biologist in our network worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. He recounted how about a quarter of the postdocs he encountered were at least sympathetic to design arguments. Read More ›