Tag: suboptimality

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 21, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, dexterity, efficiency, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionists, ID the Future, intelligent design, NOMA, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Panda's Thumb, philosophers, podcast, precision, religion, science, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, trade-offs}

The Panda’s Thumb: An Extraordinary Instance of Design?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 21, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Optimizing a structure can sometimes come at the cost of certain design constraints. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biogeography, complementarity, Douglas Futuyma, dysteleology, embryology, evolution, Evolution News, faith and science, Francis Collins, Francisco Ayala, George Williams, God-talk, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, marsupials, methodological naturalism, Niles Eldredge, NOMA, paleontology, Panda's Thumb, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, textbooks, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology}

Does the Panda Argument Hurt the Case for Evolution?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Gould cannot have it both ways: either theology-laden arguments are legitimate within scientific discourse or not. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, creation, creationism, death, designer, evolution, humans, Incarnation, intelligent design, natural evil, pain, Panda's Thumb, peer-reviewed literature, Peter Van Inwagen, predation, redemption, resurrection, sickness, special creation, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, waste, William A. Dembski}

Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, creationism, devolution, evolution, harmony, intelligent design, Louis Agassiz, Natural Theology (book), Panda's Thumb, Peter Van Inwagen, proportion, Religions (journal), St. Paul, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, symmetry, theology, thumb, William A. Dembski, William Paley, Young Earth Creationists}

Gould’s God-Talk: Is the Panda’s Thumb Incompatible with ID?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 5, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

12}

Stephen Jay Gould was renowned as a paleontologist, not as a theologian. Yet perhaps his most iconic argument is theological in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, carnivores, common ancestry, dexterity, digits, economy, efficiency, evolution, evolutionists, intelligent design, leaves, mammals, Panda's Thumb, Religions (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality}

Is the Panda’s Thumb Suboptimal?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The basic argument is that “[o]dd arrangements and funny solutions” point to evolution whereas “ideal design” points to a “sensible God.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayes’ Theorem, Bayesian reasoning, belief, biological design, designer, evidence, Evolution News, human agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Life Sciences, Lydia McGrew, objections to intelligent design, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, suboptimality}

The Advantages of a Bayesian Approach to ID

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 16, 2020

Intelligent Design

4}

Lydia McGrew gives the analogy that there is always a possibility that prehistoric civilizations did not have the ability or desire to make arrowheads. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
March 7, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Darwin’s God, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, homoplasy, Isaac Newton, modus tollens, mutations, nested hierarchy, religion, science, special creation, suboptimality, theism, theology, utilitarianism, vestigial structures}

Claim: Evolution Proves Molinism, and Molinism Proves Evolution

_{Cornelius Hunter
March 7, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science

9}

Unfortunately, religion has infected science and the result is bad religion and bad science. Read More ›

Illustration of the systems of the human body. An image with a human skeleton, nervous and muscular system. Generative AI.

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post

Author
Ann Gauger

Date
February 5, 2016

Categories
Anatomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, engineering, suboptimality, theology, trade-offs}

Are Our Bodies the Product of “Unintelligent Design”?

_{Ann Gauger
February 5, 2016

Anatomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Science Education

5}

A couple of years ago prominent evolutionary biologist David Barash opened a remarkable window on his classroom teaching. Read More ›

Low key image of jewish holiday Hanukkah background with menorah (traditional candelabra) and burning candles

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 18, 2009

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, __k-review, "poor design", Adam, Chanukah, Hebrew Bible, Israel, natural evil, suboptimality, theodicy}

Over Chanukah, Thinking About “Botched Design”

_{David Klinghoffer
December 18, 2009

Faith & Science

6}

You think I'm kidding but this line of reasoning is commonly heard from devotees of evangelizing atheism like Richard Dawkins. Read More ›