panda Type post Author Stephen Dilley Date April 8, 2024 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alvin Plantinga, creation, creationism, death, designer, evolution, humans, Incarnation, intelligent design, natural evil, pain, Panda's Thumb, peer-reviewed literature, Peter Van Inwagen, predation, redemption, resurrection, sickness, special creation, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, waste, William A. Dembski Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design? Stephen Dilley April 8, 2024 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 11 Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›
David-Berlinski-Ben-Shapiro Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date February 16, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsBiologyEthicsLinguisticsMathematicsPhilosophy Tagged , __edited, Ben Shapiro, climate change, coronavirus, First World War, future, Homo Deus, Human Nature (book), Incarnation, intellectuals, Ivy League, Jonathan Swift, Malcolm Muggeridge, Martin Luther King, Michael Aeschliman, Middle East, National Review, Steven Pinker, Sunday Special, T.S. Eliot, The Better Angels of Our Nature Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism David Klinghoffer February 16, 2020 Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy 4 From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people. Read More ›