Tag: Jeffrey Shallit

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 21, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bullies, censorship, Daniel Witt, Darwinists, evolution, Expelled (movie), free speech, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jeffrey Shallit, Neo-Darwinism, peer-reviewed journals, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer}

Progress Since the Sternberg Smithsonian Saga 20 Years Ago

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 21, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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For decades, opponents of intelligent design derided the theory as unscientific because it hadn’t been published in peer-reviewed science journals. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 27, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, intelligent design, Jeffrey Shallit, Larry Sanger, Michael Behe, New York Times, no true Scotsman, peer review, peer-reviewed literature, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Intelligent Design and the “Stop Hitting Yourself” Argument

_{Daniel Witt
August 27, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A look at an underexamined rhetorical device, in the hands of Wikipedia and other ID critics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Dickson White, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, City University of New York, Cornell University, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harry Bruinius, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Leo Strauss, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
November 6, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Barbara Forrest, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Divine Foot, Donald Prothero, Jeffrey Shallit, Jerry Coyne, Laurence Moran, Martin Gaskell, Michael Ghiselin, Motoo Kimura, mullahs, New York Times, Phillip E. Johnson, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Robert Pennock, Stephen Jay Gould, The Blind Watchmaker, The New York Review of Books, U.C. Berkeley, University of Kentucky}

Majestic Ascent: Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial

_{David Berlinski
November 6, 2019

Evolution

12}

There is some evidence that once again, the diapason of opinion is being changed. The claims of intelligent design are too insistent and too plausible to be frivolously dismissed. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 11, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Baylor University, Black Hills, black holes, calculations, equations, information, intelligent design, Jeffrey Shallit, Mount Fuji, Mount Rushmore, Robert J. Marks II, rock, sculpture, textbook}

Rankled by Mount Fuji, Darwinist Jeffrey Shallit Offers Little Self-Refuting Black Holes

_{Michael Egnor
October 11, 2019

Intelligent Design

3}

Dr. Marks is obviously right. A sculpture has more information than the raw material from which the image was sculpted. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 31, 2019

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, abstractions, animals, challenge, Darwinian theory, dictionary, humans, Jeffrey Shallit, mathematician, mercy, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience, Oxford English Dictionary}

More on Animals and Their “Reasoning”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 31, 2019

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether your dog can philosophize is not a puzzle you need to look to the Oxford English Dictionary to resolve. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 29, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, books, brain, brain function, Discovery Institute, eyes, hands, human beings, insults, Jeffrey Shallit, learning, legs, lungs, machines, materialism, mental function, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, Neural Networks, organs, Walter Bradley Center}

Egnor Versus Shallit: Can Brains Learn?

_{David Klinghoffer
September 29, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

2}

Egnor he nails it by noting that Shallit, not uniquely, falls victim to the mereological fallacy. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 30, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, alchemy, atheism, Big Bang, Christopher Hitchens, croissants, Darwinism, David Berlinski, evolution, Faith vs. Fact, Fox News, Jeffrey Shallit, Jerry Coyne, Karl Marx, Lawrence Krauss, Mark Levin, New Atheists, Paris, progressivism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, scientism, second of law thermodynamics, socialized medicine, The Devil’s Delusion}

With Mark Levin on Fox News, David Berlinski Talks “Evolution, Science, Progressivism”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 30, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science, Physics

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I think it’s the first time I’ve heard a discussion of the second of law thermodynamics on cable TV. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 13, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, afterlife, atheism, Daily Mail, Facebook, free will, Jeffrey Shallit, Jerry Coyne, Laurence Moran, morality, motives, Panda's Thumb, pastor, prayer, purpose, PZ Myers, religion, Richard Dawkins Foundation, Texas}

Taking Atheism Seriously

_{Michael Egnor
November 13, 2017

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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When a militant atheist rampages, we look in vain for reflections from atheist evolutionists. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 15, 2016

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract thought, animal intelligence, animal personhood, common sense, David Hume, human intelligence, Jeffrey Shallit, language, Nature}

David Hume Notwithstanding, Abstract Thought in Animals Is a Myth

_{Michael Egnor
July 15, 2016

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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Abstract thought in animals is a cultural myth at the heart of the Darwinian understanding of man. Read More ›