Darioconusauricomusshell_large Type post Author Casey Luskin Date July 6, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , "God of the gaps", adaptationist, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, empirical science, evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William A. Dembski, zoologists Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field Casey Luskin July 6, 2021 Evolution, Intelligent Design 12 The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›
eye Type post Author Michael Behe Date June 10, 2021 CategoriesIntelligent Design Tagged , Alvin Plantinga, complex specified information, computer program, Darwinian evolution, eyes, information, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lydia McGrew, mind, minds, philosophers, purpose, purposeful arrangement of parts, spandrels, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts” Michael Behe June 10, 2021 Intelligent Design 4 A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Read More ›
kudzu Type post Author Michael Flannery Date May 4, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ann Gauger, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwin's Doubt, David Berlinski, David Premack, fossil record, intelligent evolution, J. Scott Turner, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Neo-Darwinism, Purpose and Desire, Quarterly Review of Biology, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Human Instinct, Thomas Nagel, Wendell Berry Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct Michael Flannery May 4, 2018 Evolution, Human Exceptionalism 11 Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›