panda Type post Author Stephen Dilley Date April 8, 2024 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alvin Plantinga, creation, creationism, death, designer, evolution, humans, Incarnation, intelligent design, natural evil, pain, Panda's Thumb, peer-reviewed literature, Peter Van Inwagen, predation, redemption, resurrection, sickness, special creation, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, waste, William A. Dembski Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design? Stephen Dilley April 8, 2024 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 11 Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›
panda Type post Author Stephen Dilley Date April 5, 2024 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & ScienceIntelligent Design Tagged , Charles Darwin, creationism, devolution, evolution, harmony, intelligent design, Louis Agassiz, Natural Theology (book), Panda's Thumb, Peter Van Inwagen, proportion, Religions (journal), St. Paul, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, symmetry, theology, thumb, William A. Dembski, William Paley, Young Earth Creationists Gould’s God-Talk: Is the Panda’s Thumb Incompatible with ID? Stephen Dilley April 5, 2024 Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design 12 Stephen Jay Gould was renowned as a paleontologist, not as a theologian. Yet perhaps his most iconic argument is theological in nature. Read More ›
spider Type post Author Douglas Axe Date December 18, 2017 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & ScienceIntelligent Design Tagged , __nedited, calculator, coincidences, counterflow, Del Ratzsch, design intuition, dragonfly, functional coherence, Hans Vodder, hummingbird, intelligent design, Mars rover, monkey, natural processes, Neo-Darwinism, Peter Van Inwagen, probabilities, probability, Star Trek, theistic evolution, Undeniable (book) The Calculation-Free Design Intuition and the Calculations That Validate It Douglas Axe December 18, 2017 Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design 7 From childhood, we all naturally ascribe things like spiders and hummingbirds to a “God-like designer.” But are we right to do this? Read More ›
