2560px-Land_planarian_(21248664896) Type post Author Daniel Witt Date February 28, 2025 CategoriesBiologyEngineeringMathematicsMetaphysics Tagged , a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism Daniel Witt February 28, 2025 Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics 15 Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›
Joe_Rogan Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date February 10, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Bret Weinstein, Darwinism, designer, epigenetic information, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionists, Günter Bechly, immaterial genome, intelligent design, Joe Rogan, morphological change, natural selection, parsimony, Platonists, random mutation, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer, tiger, USAID Bret Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Podcast: Darwinism Is “Broken,” Intelligent Design Is “Catching Up” David Klinghoffer February 10, 2025 Evolution, Intelligent Design 6 Dr. Weinstein alludes to another Darwinian mechanism operating on top of the standard one of random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›
Bust_of_Plato,_Vatican_Museum,_Rome Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date December 16, 2021 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent DesignPhilosophy Tagged , Aristotle, demiurge, evolution, fossil record, Genesis, information, intelligent design, natural world, Platonists, population genetics, Richard Sternberg, Science Uprising, Stephen Meyer, Timaeus, University of Toronto, waiting-time problem Evolutionary Biologist Richard Sternberg: Why I’m a Platonist David Klinghoffer December 16, 2021 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy 3 The evolutionary turns that life has taken, he says, “ultimately have their source in an informational realm that is outside space and time.” Read More ›
