Tag: philosophy

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 19, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blind evolution, Chris Packham, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, denials, ear bones, elephant, evolution, Evolution (TV series), evolutionary biologists, federal funding, food, insinuation, intelligent design, NOVA PBS, PBS, philosophy, plausible deniability, podcasters, Richard Buggs, scientific evidence, theists, theology}

Unlike the BBC, NOVA’s Evolution So Far Prefers Insinuation to Outright Atheism

_{David Klinghoffer
October 19, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I find the clear statement of what you’re trying to convey at least more honorable than always leaving room for future denials as needed. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 19, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Andrew Huberman, animal impulse, Arthur Brooks, calling, citations, Darwinian evolution, Dogs, dopamine, enjoyment, evolution, faith, foresight, h-index, happiness, Huberman Lab, human agents, human brain, human exceptionalism, humans, idols, intelligent design, love, macronutrients, mammals, meaning, Microsoft Word, moral aspiration, neuroscience, parahippocampal gyrus, persistence, philosophy, planning, pleasure, prefrontal cortex, rape, religion, satisfaction, survival of the fittest, thirst, virtue, water, worship}

Happiness Comes When Humans Fulfill Our Designed Purpose

_{Emily Reeves
October 19, 2026

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Our mind, our brain, our physical as well as our metaphysical existence are all designed to deliver satisfaction only after our suffering toward a goal. Read More ›

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Date
October 13, 2026

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aeon, Arizona, artificial inteligence, computer scientists, COSM 2026, David Hume, education, freedom, friendship, Hugging Face, human exceptionalism, Immanuel Kant, injustice, intelligence, large language models, machines, optimisation, philosophers, philosophy, Reality Check, reason, Sasha Mudd, Scottsdale}

With Our Exceptional Place in Nature, Human Reason Is Much More than Machine “Reason”

_{Science & Culture
October 13, 2026

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 12, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Technology
Tagged
, effective altruism, Elon Musk, Émile P. Torres, Epsilon Centauri, ethics, future, Future of Humanity Institute, human race, longtermism, Nick Bostrom, philosophy, posthumans, prophecy, religion, Sam Bankman-Fried, science fiction, technology, The Precipice, Toby Ord, Utopia, What We Owe the Future, William MacAskill}

As an Approach to Ethics, Longtermerism Makes No Sense

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 12, 2026

Ethics, Technology

5}

Elon Musk, whose ambition for space colonies is legendary, has said, “This is a close match for my philosophy.” Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, biology, causal adequacy, creative intelligence, croissants, David Hume, DNA, fine-tuning, functional specificity, God Hypothesis, God of the gaps, hieroglyphics, improbability, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, J. P. Moreland, Kentucky Derby, living systems, materialistic explanations, Michael Shermer, natural world, parsimony, philosophy, physics, Pierre-Simon Laplace, placeholder, postulations, quantum cosmology, racehorse, religious scientists, scientific advance, scribe of the gaps, Seattle Slew II, specified information, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, universe, vera causa, William Lane Craig}

Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Critics of intelligent design or science-based theistic arguments often cite Isaac Newton as the prime example of a scientist who made this blunder. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, atheism, Bible, Britons, cosmologists, cultural Christianity, debates, fine-tuning, Frankie Howerd, Guy Consolmagno, humor, intelligent design, Joseph Stalin, knobs, liturgy, London, masturbation, meteorites, neo-Darwinian evolution, New Atheists, newspapers, philosophy, physicists, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, Sir Martin Rees, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, The Tablet, The Telegraph, Up Pompeii!, Vatican Observatory}

Stephen Meyer versus Richard Dawkins: A Contest Made in Heaven?

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Much of the response by Dawkins is defensive in tone, and shifts the discussion to one of ethics and philosophy with only a vague gesture towards science. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 3, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alexander Hall, Arthur Fine, Bill Wimsatt, David Hull, David Malament, design detection, divorce, doctoral studies, Douglas Axe, Edward Teller, evolution, intelligent design, J. Gresham Machen, Jonathan Wells, mathematics, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), natural theology, Northwestern University, Paul Nelson, Paul Teller, Phillip E. Johnson, philosophy, philosophy of science, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton University, probability, Sisyphus, specification, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, William Paley, Winston Ewert}

Philosophy, Theology, and an Inference to Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 3, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science

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My dissertation on the logic of conditionals came to seems like the rock of Sisyphus. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Skyrms, Cambridge University Press, chance, complexity, improbability, information, Jaakko Hintikka, My Personal History with Information (series), natural selection, Ohio State University, philosophy, randomness, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, Synthese, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, Winston Ewert}

Precursors to the Design Inference — And a Nod to Dawkins

_{William A. Dembski
September 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

For Richard Dawkins, specified complexity required some special effort of explanation, but that effort could be performed by Darwinian natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Arthur Fine, asymmetry, Bill Wimsatt, Christianity, computer science, David Malament, doctorate, economics, faith, Guinness Book of World Records, Harold Booher, Harvey Friedman, James Gleick, mathematics, My Personal History with Information (series), New York Times, nonrandomness, Northwestern University, Noûs, Ohio State University, Persi Diaconis, philosophy, psychology, randomness, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, statistics, The Design Inference, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago}

Randomness by Design: A Derivative Idea, and a Fundamental One

_{William A. Dembski
September 29, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

5}

My Christian faith was indispensable here. From the vantage of naturalism or materialism, randomness is fundamental. Read More ›

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Author
Tom Winkler

Date
September 17, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Academic Questions, Anthony Flew, art, atheists, Big Bang, composers, Dan Asia, Denyse O’Leary, faith and science, intelligence, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, music, National Association of Scholars, North Texas State University, philosophy, religion, settled science, soul, The Immortal Mind, theism, There Is a God, universe, University of North Texas}

Toward Theism, but Cautiously: Reviewing Flew, Egnor, and O’Leary

_{Tom Winkler
September 17, 2026

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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"As with the Big Bang before its widespread acceptance, we may find ourselves increasingly compelled to take such possibilities seriously — even if cautiously." Read More ›