Tag: ignorance

woman vaccinated and with a band-aid on her arm, giving a sign that all is well.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 25, 2025

Categories
Epistemology
Evolution
Tagged
, buzzwords, causation, complexity, cosmos, emergence, escape hatch, ignorance, John Heil, materialistic philosophy, philosophers, promissory materialism, scientists, Washington University}

Materialism’s Band-Aid, “Emergence” Is Bad Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 25, 2025

Epistemology, Evolution

3}

The idea is that some properties of systems emerge only after a certain level of complexity is reached. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemists, biologists, Charles Darwin, DNA, evolution, function, genome, graduate students, How Life Works, ignorance, intelligent design, junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Nature (journal), null hypothesis, Philip Ball, postdocs, researchers, science journals, science writers, University of Toronto}

With One Short Rule, Philip Ball Explains Why “Junk DNA” May Be a Placeholder for Ignorance

_{Paul Nelson
February 20, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Here is Ball’s proposed rule for molecular biologists: “stop assuming,” he writes, “we know which parts of DNA matter and which don’t.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, aboutness, Allen Institute for Brain Science, awareness, Christof Koch, consciousness, Franz Brentano, ignorance, intentionality, Ludwig Wittgenstein, M. R. Bennett, neuroscience, P. M. S. Hacker, panpsychism, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Socrates, subjective experience, wisdom}

Leading Neuroscientist Wavers on Physical View of Consciousness

_{Michael Egnor
January 30, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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"Consciousness cannot be explained only within the framework of space and time and energy, but we need to postulate something additional — experience.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 5, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Anselm, atheism, Augustinian Proof, Big Bang, Edward Feser, general relativity, ground of existence, ignorance, insanity, intelligent design, Necessary Existence, Ontological Argument, philosophers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholic, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Aquinas}

God Hypothesis: In Defense of Stephen Meyer’s Book Title

_{Michael Egnor
December 5, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences

5}

What Dr. Meyer did was enter the atheist camp, take up their flawed tools, and defeat them with their own weapons. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 23, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, debate, Divine Hiddenness argument, evidence, faith, ground of existence, ignorance, logic, Matt Dillahunty, nature, theists}

Theists vs. Atheists: Who Has the Burden of Proof?

_{Michael Egnor
January 23, 2022

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Because Dillahunty refuses to debate me again, I’ll address his claim that atheists have no burden of proof in the debate over God’s existence in this post. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 5, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, Dallas Science and Faith Conference, earth, ignorance, intelligent causation, intelligent design, James Tour, malpractice, mystery, nanotechnology, Rice University, science media, Science Uprising, spontaneous generation, Stephen Hawking, synthetic organic chemistry}

Chemist James Tour: The Unacknowledged Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2019

Evolution, Origin of Life

3}

The problem isn’t that “We have no idea” how life originated. Admitting ignorance is a good thing! Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 5, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, Dallas Science and Faith Conference, earth, ignorance, intelligent causation, intelligent design, James Tour, malpractice, mystery, nanotechnology, Rice University, science media, Science Uprising, spontaneous generation, Stephen Hawking, synthetic organic chemistry}

Chemist James Tour: The Unacknowledged Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2019

Evolution, Origin of Life

3}

The problem isn’t that “We have no idea” how life originated. Admitting ignorance is a good thing! Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, biological adaptation, disorder, entropy, evolution, Fifth Way, form, ignorance, information, knowledge, medicine, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, quantum physics, Scrabble, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

On Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 5, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Physics

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Universal Darwinism is the belief that Darwin’s theory can be applied fruitfully to many scientific disciplines, not just to biology. 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 and Culture
March 7, 2019

Intelligent Design, Physics

1}

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
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 6, 2016

Categories
Chemistry
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __tedited, abiogenesis, functional complexity, ignorance, mystery, nanomachines, natural causes, origin of life, prebiotic chemistry, prebiotic synthesis experiments, synthetic chemistry}

On Prebiotic Chemistry, Synthetic Chemist James Tour Urges an Admission of Ignorance

_{David Klinghoffer
June 6, 2016

Chemistry, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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Taking aim at biologists who assume the matter of life from nonlife is well in hand, Tour sets out this way. Read More ›