Tag: secondary causation

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post

Date
July 3, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, BioLogos, cellular complexity, Christianity, Discovery Institute Press, Edgar Brightman, gatekeeper, inference to the best explanation, integration, Johannes Kepler, materialism, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Minding the Brain, natural theology, open-mindedness, Paul de Vries, philosophical naturalism, presuppositions, Robert Boyle, Robert J. Marks, Robert Larmer, rule of thumb, secondary causation, spontaneous generation, theism}

Methodological Naturalism as Religion in Disguise

_{Science and Culture
July 3, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

5}

If the data points to outcomes that natural causes can't explain, then ruling out supernatural causes is not scientific humility — it’s religious dogma. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jay W. Richards

Date
February 15, 2010

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __nedited, causation, Church Fathers, counterflow, definist fallacy, Del Ratzsch, design detection, evidence for id, exoplanets, explanatory filter, extra-terrestrial intelligence, eye, foresight, intervention, Irreducible Complexity, methodological pluralism, Michael Behe, miracles, natural laws, natural processes, positive case for design, Roman Catholicism, secondary causation, straw man, teleology, theism, theistic evolution, theology}

How to Completely Misunderstand Intelligent Design: A Response to Stephen Barr

_{Jay W. Richards
February 15, 2010

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

14}

Catholic physicist Stephen Barr is a constitutionally uncharitable critic of ID. It's not clear that he has even read the books that he criticizes. Read More ›

Digital contents concept. Social networking service. Streaming video. communication network.

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post

Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
December 28, 2009

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Reproductive Science
Science Education
Tagged
, __nedited, Cosmos (series), Daniel Dennett, Darwin Day, Darwin Year, embryology, evo-devo, Evolution (series), fruit flies, Giuseppe Sermonti, Gregor Mendel, Haeckel’s embryos, inheritance, materialism, mutations, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, PBS, secondary causation}

PBS: Pushing Bad Science

_{Jonathan Wells
December 28, 2009

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Reproductive Science, Science Education

7}

The U. S. "Public" Broadcasting System (PBS) has a long history of promoting materialistic philosophy disguised as empirical science. Read More ›