Tag: open-mindedness

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 10, 2025

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

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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Date
July 3, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, BioLogos, cellular complexity, Christianity, Discovery Institute Press, Edgar Brightman, gatekeeper, inference to the best explanation, integration, Johannes Kepler, materialism, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Minding the Brain, natural theology, open-mindedness, Paul de Vries, philosophical naturalism, presuppositions, Robert Boyle, Robert J. Marks, Robert Larmer, rule of thumb, secondary causation, spontaneous generation, theism}

Methodological Naturalism as Religion in Disguise

_{Science and Culture
July 3, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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If the data points to outcomes that natural causes can't explain, then ruling out supernatural causes is not scientific humility — it’s religious dogma. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 4, 2023

Categories
Epistemology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bias, Big Bang, climate change, closed-mindedness, confirmation bias, denialism, education, epistemic virtues, Eugenie Scott, evidence, evolution, global warming, human evolution, intellectual humility, intelligent design, Julia Galef, motivated reasoning, nanotechnology, open-mindedness, polarization, popular opinion, Science Literacy, self-correcting, self-deception, Stem Cell Research, TEDx talk}

Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset: Lessons from Julia Galef

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 4, 2023

Epistemology, Scientific Reasoning

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The soldier mindset, also known as motivated reasoning, leads us to defend the stronghold of our belief commitments against intellectual threats, come what may. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 29, 2016

Categories
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __nedited, adaptation, appeal to prejudice, creationism, cynicism, Doug Axe, evolutionary biology, intellectual honesty, open-mindedness, rhetoric, sexual reproduction, The Conversation, tribalism, Undeniable (book)}

Evolutionist Recommends “Listening to Other Arguments,” Except When It Comes to Evolution

_{David Klinghoffer
November 29, 2016

Scientific Reasoning

3}

Rob Brooks decries "tribal thinking." Doug Axe replies skeptically. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 1, 2012

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __nedited, constraints, design detection, design hypothesis, Design Inference, designer, God, hypothesis, ID research program, intelligence, open-mindedness, optimality, specified complexity, transmission, variability}

Design Inference vs. Design Hypothesis

_{William A. Dembski
October 1, 2012

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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On a bright December day in 1994 in Green Valley, Arizona, the term "design inference" hit me. Read More ›