Tag: phrenology

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, George Church, information, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Michael Ruse, money, Moon, Perry Marshall, phlogiston, phrenology, Richard Dawkins, rockets, Silicon Valley, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski}

Origin of Life Challenge: $10 Million, Just Lying Around

_{Daniel Witt
January 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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This is an obvious way to judge such theories. If someone claims to know how to make something, the natural response is, “Let’s see it, then.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 20, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, academic freedom, alchemy, commitment, ether, faith, faith and science, hypocrisy, Institute for Advanced Study, intellectual humility, obedience, overconfidence, phlogiston, phrenology, Roman Catholic, sacred cows, science and religion, simplicity, Swarthmore College, theory}

Science, Faith, and Einstein

_{William A. Dembski
June 20, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Einstein’s dictum about thinking for yourself therefore holds for faith as much as for science. It must come before commitment and obedience. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Big Bang, Bonfire of the Vanities, cosmogony, Genesis, Headlong Hall, homologies, ideology, language, Michelangelo’s David, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, Oxford English Dictionary, perverse incentives, phrenology, Richard Lewontin, Steady State, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Theory of Everything, Thomas Love Peacock, Tom Wolfe}

Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery

_{Neil Thomas
August 18, 2022

Cosmology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, brain, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, crime, criminal justice, criminals, criminologists, criminology, Darwin Day in America, evolution, heredity, human rights, Italy, museums, phrenology, prisoners, skeleton, skulls, Social Darwinism, Turin}

In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso

_{John G. West
June 24, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

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Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 10, 2015

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __nedited, brain sex, cerebral cortex, fMRI, gender, gyri, junk science, moral agency, phrenology, pseudo-pronouns, public policy, Research, scientific racism, sexual differences, sexual dimorphism, sexual realism, transgenderism}

At the Intersection of Phrenology and Public Policy

_{Michael Egnor
December 10, 2015

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Reproductive Science

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A recent PNAS study is the latest iteration of dial-a-science: just call and order science to fit your favored narrative. Read More ›

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Date
May 29, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __nedited, association fallacy, bandwagon fallacy, discarded theories, double standard, evidence, Karl Giberson, Larry Laudan, mythology, phrenology, psychiatry, rhetorical strategies, scientism, self-correcting, special pleading}

Karl Giberson’s Scientism Refuses to Die, but It Should

_{Science and Culture
May 29, 2013

Evolution, Medicine, Scientific Reasoning

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"Science is a self-correcting process," Giberson assures us. Where have we heard that before? Read More ›