Tag: Karl Popper

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Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's House of Cards, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, evolutionary theory, Galileo Galilei, John C. Eccles, Karl Popper, Michael Flannery, natural selection, nature, offspring, parents, philosophy of science, purpose, sexual selection, Tom Bethell}

On Natural Selection, Popper’s Posthumous Gift

_{Science & Culture
March 11, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy of Science

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If philosopher of science Karl Popper wanted to leave a gift for those who came after to puzzle over and discuss, he couldn’t have chosen more astutely. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birth, brain, conception, Elliott Sober, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, Evolution of the Brain, evolutionary theory, fetus, individuality, intelligent design, John C. Eccles, Karl Popper, lottery, Mehmet Elgin, mind, natural selection, neuroscience, purpose, purposeful nature, recant, recantation, spiritual creation, testability, The Self and Its Brain, theology, uniqueness}

Popper and Purposeful Nature: A Note on the So-Called “Recantation”

_{Michael Flannery
March 10, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

A correspondent raises this famous statement of Karl Popper on natural selection, with his “historically loaded word ‘recant.’” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, AI Overview, archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, Forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, intelligent design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine}

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

36}

Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, biology, bird beaks, Charles Darwin, circular reasoning, Darwinism, ENCODE project, evidence, evolution, explanatory power, François Jacob, frogs, genome, homologous features, Karl Marx, Karl Popper, philosophy of science, psychologists, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud}

Why Evolution Is Undeniable

_{Daniel Witt
July 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

8}

The challenges continue to pile up, but the pile never gets any bigger because each piece of contrary evidence is reinterpreted for “general reasons.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 19, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Carlo Rovelli, dark matter, fine-tuning, Higgs Boson, hype, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Karl Popper, multiverse, Nature (journal), Nobel Prize, physicists, physics, quantum gravity, Standard Model, string theory, theoretical physics, Thomas Kuhn}

What Drives All that “New Physics” Hype? Could It Be Fear of Intelligent Design?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 19, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physics

5}

Many thinkers are troubled by the massive evidence for fine-tuning of our universe. They want to believe that a multiverse just popped into existence. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, England, Ernst Mayr, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Harrisburg, Judge John E. Jones, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, Karl Popper, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, L’Homme Machine, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Norman Macbeth, Of Pandas and People, Pennsylvania, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, United States}

Teaching Darwin: A Hypothetical Program

_{Neil Thomas
February 20, 2025

Evolution, Science Education

17}

Charles Darwin himself contemplated being mistaken, writing “I have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to a fantasy.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, China, evolution, eyes, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, intelligent design, Karl Popper, microbes, paleontologists, preservation, South Australia, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

_{Günter Bechly
November 15, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

10}

All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinism, evolution, funding, intelligent design, Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis? (tribute series), jobs, Karl Popper, natural selection, paradigm, Research, scientific revolutions, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, theory, Thomas Kuhn, truth, unguided processes}

Theory in Crisis? Some Cautionary Words

_{Jonathan Wells
October 1, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn was criticized for various inconsistencies in his argument. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, abiogenesis, apologetics, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, Charles Bradlaugh, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Karl Popper, Lucretius, natural preservation, natural selection, New Atheists, randomness, Richard Dawkins, spontaneous generation, teleology, The Descent of Man, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malthus, Werner Heisenberg}

Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 12, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

20}

The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, birds, common descent, convergence, evolution, homology, intelligent design, Jurassic, Karl Popper, nested hierarchy, synapomorphy, thought police}

Fossil Friday: Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery

_{Günter Bechly
December 15, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

12}

Common descent is assumed and the evidence interpreted accordingly, rather than common descent being deduced from the evidence. Read More ›