Tag: Occam’s Razor

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, Charles Darwin, Cicero, constraints, cooption, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Coppedge, exaptation, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lucretius, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, natural philosophers, Neo-Darwinism, Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum, Stuart Kauffman}

Hello, Stuart Kauffman

_{Daniel Witt
January 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 26, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, alien life, astrobiologists, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, extra-terrestrial intelligence, faith, galaxy, intelligent design, Occam's Razor, Paul Davies, Roger Penrose, stars}

The Conviction that ET Is Out There Survives Every Setback

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 26, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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The usual practice in science would rule out mundane explanations first. But clearly, that is a road not taken. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
May 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amphibians, animal behavior, animals, ants, bats, brains, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, crustaceans, fish, fruit flies, great apes, honeybees, invertebrates, Mary Olmstead, mollusks, Nature (journal), Occam's Razor, pain, philosophers, play, reptiles, scientists, Thomas Nagel, tortoises, Valerie Kuhlmeier, vertebrates, worms}

Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

_{Eric Cassell
May 2, 2024

Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, birds, Darwinian evolution, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Evolution News, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Jurassic period, Microraptor, Occam's Razor, paleontology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

_{Günter Bechly
April 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Darwinists may have to say goodbye to some cherished assumed transitional forms and the evolutionary just-so stories built upon them. Read More ›

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Date
January 27, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, atheism, Darwinism, ID the Future, interview, multiverse, Occam's Razor, philosophers, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, theism}

Andrew Klavan and Stephen Meyer Talk God and Science

_{Science and Culture
January 27, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

2}

Meyer and Klavan discuss a noted atheist philosopher who frankly admits that he doesn’t want theism to be true. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 7, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Christianity, Doug Monroe, Greek, ID the Future, Latin, materialism, miracles, multiverse, Occam's Razor, Praxis Circle, scientific method, scientific revolution, skepticism, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, theology, worldview}

Stephen Meyer: Evidence of Mind in the Natural World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 7, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Can we scientifically detect the activity of a mind behind the universe? Philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer answers this question and more. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 20, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abiogenesis, argument from ignorance, artificial intelligence, biases, ChatGPT, chemical evolution, comets, complexity, cosmic fine-tuning, Directed panspermia, early Earth, higher intelligence, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, interstellar dust, Irreducible Complexity, meteorites, methodological naturalism, multiverse, natural selection, Occam's Razor, panpsychism, panspermia, physical constants, physical laws, primordial soup, self-organization, self-repliation, Strong Anthropic Principle, testability, thermodynamics, Weak Anthropic Principle}

Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
September 20, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bioelectric code, Caltech, codes, codons, Current Biology, DNA, English, epigenetic code, genes, genetic code, Hamlet, Jonathan Wells, membrane code, modENCODE, Occam's Razor, proteins, RNA, University of Barcelona, University of Copenhagen, William Shakespeare}

In Life, Not One Code but Many

_{David Coppedge
May 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

It would be as ridiculous to lump all of these into a single genetic code as it would be to lump Morse Code into the genetic code. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
November 30, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, biopolymers, chirality, DNA, glycans, Holy Grail, homochirality, intelligent design, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, monomers, natural processes, nucleotides, Occam's Razor, polymerization, proteins, RNA, solvents, sugars, YouTube videos}

Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

_{Rob Stadler
November 30, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected. Read More ›

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Date
November 21, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, atheism, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwinism, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Occam's Razor, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Klavan and Meyer on God and Science

_{Science and Culture
November 21, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The pair touch on the Judeo-Christian roots of science, how fine-tuning in physics and cosmology point to intelligent design, and more. Read More ›