Tag: Robert Rosen

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Benjamin Franklin, chicken, Claude Shannon, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Essays on Life Itself, garden snail, genome, George D. Rose, Hypatia of Alexandria, information, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, junk DNA, Levinthal paradox, Life Itself, logos, Michael Levin, nature, Neoplatonism, Nous, Peter Tompa, physical world, Plato's Revenge, Plotinus, Protein Science (journal), Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, seashells, snails, The Physical Basis of Biology, Walter Elsasser, whiteboard, yeast}

A Diffident Revolutionary

_{David Klinghoffer
June 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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In a meeting with colleagues at Discovery Institute in 2024, Richard Sternberg was sketching his thoughts on a whiteboard. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, C.H. Waddington, Casey Luskin, creationists, demiurge, Denis Noble, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, Hans Driesch, Harvard University, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lars Löfgren, Michael Levin, microbes, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, René Descartes, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, sequoia trees, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, theoretical biology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vitalism}

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

_{Daniel Witt
May 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

10}

I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, biology, Christianity, David Klinghoffer, DNA, evolution, genes, genetic instructions, geneticists, genome, Georg Cantor, immaterial genome, infinite sets, intelligent design, Judaism, leather shoes, Life Itself, material genome, materialism, non-coding DNA, pearls, Plato, proteins, recombination, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, set theory, sneakers, transposable elements, tsimtsum}

The Immaterial Genome: Richard Sternberg’s Labor of Love

_{Ann Gauger
May 12, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

Rick Sternberg's thought has the potential to demonstrate conclusively the need for an intelligent designer. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, 23andMe, Amazon, archaeology, Brown University, Columbia University, David Klinghoffer, dementia, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, epigenetics, genome, George Thomas, Greek, Greeks, Harriet Lund, humans, immaterial genome, journalism, Latin, Los Angeles, Mayflower, National Review, Orthodox Judaism, Oscar A. C. Lund, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Robert Rosen, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Smithsonian National Museum, The Gene: An Intimate History, whales, William F. Buckley Jr., yeast}

Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge

_{David Klinghoffer
May 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

7}

All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs. Read More ›

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Date
May 2, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, David Klinghoffer, heredity, intelligent design, Life Itself, Plato's Revenge, providence, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Stephen J. Iacoboni}

In the Conventional Genetic Paradigm, “Something Is Missing, Something Big”

_{Science and Culture
May 2, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

2}

"David Klinghoffer masterfully chronicles Richard Sternberg’s decades-long search to fill the void articulated by Robert Rosen." Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Colin Pittendrigh, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Sahotra Sarkar, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

11}

This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, biology, cognition, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, electric fields, ENCODE project, evolutionary theory, Forrest Mims, genome, goal-directedness, Harvard University, human genome, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Levin, minds, Perry Marshall, Peter A. Corning, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, purpose, random mutations, relational biology, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman, teleonomy, Tufts University, Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, William A. Dembski}

Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 21, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
January 30, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Anthony Flew, Aristotle, arrival of the fittest, causation, causes, Daniel Witt, Darwin's Black Box, David Gelernter, DNA, Energy, Irreducible Complexity, Jacques Monod, Life Itself, logic, mastodons, matter, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, natural law, observation, oxidation, purpose, reduction, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Stuart Kauffman, subatomic particles, supernovae, T. rex, telos, Thomistic Aristotelianism}

The Metaphysics of Irreducible Complexity

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
January 30, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

8}

The vastness of life’s complexity is no longer unfathomable when seen through the light of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 28, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Philosophy
Tagged
, aboutness, angiosperms, biosphere, breeding, cell membrane, combustion, dispositionalism, intentionality, migration, ozone, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Thomas Aquinas, transcription, Unmoved Mover}

Intentionality in Living Systems: What Does It Mean?

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 28, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Philosophy

6}

One historically dominant position on intentionality has been the Brentano thesis, proffered by 19th-century German philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, birds, buoyancy, carbon, computers, flowers, form, function, hydrogen, insects, laboratories, life, Life Itself, microscopes, natural law, nature, nectar, nitrogen, oxygen, Plato, polar bears, pollinators, Pythagoras, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, seals, shape, telescopes, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism, water, wood}

A Closer Look at Natural Law

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 25, 2024

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›