Tag: methodology

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Aristotelian cosmos, Copernican displacement, cosmic enormity, cosmic scale, cosmology, Dante, demotion, divine hiddenness, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, Hell, human centrality, intelligent cause, intelligibility, methodology, motivation, natural philosophy, naturalism, posteriors, priors, promotion, Psalms, Robert B. Stewart, Satan, scientific revolution, Scripture, Sean Carroll, Stephen Meyer, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Apologetics, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, Timothy McGrew, universe}

Sean Carroll and the Counter-Evidence Considered

_{Bruce Gordon
March 11, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

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My present concern is to articulate and confront Carroll's charge that the fine-tuning argument engages in some evidential shenanigans. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 10, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, analogy, anthropologists, biology, compartmentalization, defining science, Forensics, geologists, geology, gravity, integration, intelligent design, intelligent designer, methodological pluralism, methodology, natural laws, naturalistic explanations, open-mindedness, patterns, physical world, predictions, psychologists, psychology, real world, science}

Are Scientists Allowed to Consider Unscientific Explanations?

_{Daniel Witt
July 10, 2025

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Let’s consider a narrower field. Geology, as everyone knows, is concerned with the natural processes that act upon the earth. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, academia, animals, biological complexity, biology, chemistry, Evolution News, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, materialism, methodology, Michael Levin, nest-building, nurturing, Peter Corning, physics, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, Richard Sternberg, synergy, teleonomy, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vital force, vitalism}

Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism

_{Daniel Witt
June 6, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 31, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ATP synthase, bacterial flagellar motor, biological systems, biologists, biology, cancer, Emily Reeves, engineered systems, engineers, glycolysis, ID the Future, living systems, methodology, nanotechnology, podcast, Research, scientific literature, systems engineering}

Emily Reeves: How to Study Biology with Systems Engineering Principles

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 31, 2025

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Traditional methods in biology have proven insufficient for understanding and accurately predicting complex biological systems. Why? Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, An Introduction to Systems Biology, cancer, ecosystem, evolution, glycolysis, intelligent design, living systems, methodology, radio, reverse-engineering, Richard Dawkins, scientific progress, Systems Biology, systems engineering, The God Delusion, topology, Uri Alon}

Studying Biology with System Engineering Principles

_{Emily Reeves
October 29, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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As a biologist, I’ve often wondered what the best way is to integrate engineering ideas in biology research. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, branches, equations, hierarchy, intelligent design, methodology, multifunctionality, Paper Digest, reverse-engineering, roots, Stuart Burgess, trees, trunks, wind}

Paper Digest: Are Trees Well Designed?

_{Emily Reeves
January 25, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Consistent with Stuart Burgess’s general strategy, this paper is an excellent example of how ID research can be applied in a scientific discipline. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 8, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Ann Reid, creationism, Darwinian evolution, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, Evolution: Education and Outreach, Glenn Branch, intelligent design, methodology, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Nature (journal), Next Generation Science Standards, scientists, survey, teachers}

Survey Misclassifies Darwin-Doubting Teachers

_{Casey Luskin
July 8, 2020

Evolution

13}

This project cannot tell us how many students are taught evolution dogmatically and how many are studying it scientifically. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 10, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Psychology
Tagged
, __cedited, adaptation, babies, behavior, college students, evolution, fairy tales, football, junk science, methodology, MIT, Neanderthals, PZ Myers, satire}

Why an Evolutionist Disses Evolutionary Psychology

_{Michael Egnor
April 10, 2019

Biochemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Psychology

3}

Darwinian fairy tales about prehistoric Neanderthal proclivities and modern psychology are obvious junk science. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 9, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, algorithms, APOB, Arthur Hunt, Cell (journal), Darwin Devolves, genes, Liu et al. (2014), methodology, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, proteins, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: Unacknowledged Discrepancies, Inconsistent Standards

_{Casey Luskin
April 9, 2019

Evolution

9}

The discrepancy in method is crucial to understanding this argument against Behe. Yet curiously, it is omitted from mention by Lents and Hunt. Why? Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
February 25, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, Ann Gauger, bacteria, BIO-Complexity, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian mechanism, David Berlinski, Elizabeth Pennisi, evolution, Evolution News, exaptation, genes, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Long Term Evolution Experiment, methodology, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, proteins, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Salmonella, Science (journal)}

Näsvall et al. Demonstrates the Effectiveness of Intelligent Design

_{Ann Gauger
February 25, 2019

Intelligent Design

11}

The dispute started when a review in Science proposed the 2012 article by Näsvall et al. as evidence against Mike Behe’s book Darwin Devolves. Read More ›