Tag: reductio ad absurdum

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, Charles Darwin, Cicero, constraints, cooption, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Coppedge, exaptation, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lucretius, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, natural philosophers, Neo-Darwinism, Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum, Stuart Kauffman}

Hello, Stuart Kauffman

_{Daniel Witt
January 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
August 13, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, aliens, debate, inference to the best explanation, James Croft, motives, philosophers, reductio ad absurdum, Return of the God Hypothesis, skeptics, Stephen Meyer, Substack, William A. Dembski}

Croft, Continued: More Thoughts on Meyer’s Debate with a Skeptic

_{Elizabeth Whately
August 13, 2021

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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I think he’s mistaken my emphasis in the specific car break-in examples I gave, namely that the burglars’ behavior was odd and unpredictable. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
December 11, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Tsiaras, artificial intelligence, birth, computers, conception, Darwinism, degradation, errors, evolution, intelligent design, life, reductio ad absurdum, robot, scientists, Stephen Hawking, TED talk}

Robot World Domination? Darwinism as Reductio ad Absurdum

_{Granville Sewell
December 11, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science, Technology

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"If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself. This will be a new form of life which outperforms humans," warns Stephen Hawking. Read More ›

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Author
Jay W. Richards

Date
April 2, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Alvin Plantinga, Asa Gray, BioLogos, Christianity, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, defining science, defining terms, Elliott Sober, equivocation, evidence, evolution, explanations, flagellum, integration, intelligent design, material cause, Michael Behe, mutations, naturalism, Normal Science, random, randomness, reductio ad absurdum, scientific theory, teleology, theism, Thomas Kuhn, Where the Conflict Really Lies}

What’s in a Word? “Randomness” in Darwinism and the Scientific Theory of Evolution

_{Jay W. Richards
April 2, 2012

Evolution, Faith & Science

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This is the third in a series of reviews of Alvin Plantinga's important new book, Where the Conflict Really Lies. Read More ›