Trinity007 Type post Author Daniel Witt Date June 6, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignPhilosophyScientific Reasoning Tagged , academia, animals, biological complexity, biology, biopsychism, chemistry, Communicative & Integrative Biology, Evolution and the Fate of Humankind, Evolution News, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Manuel DeLanda, Marco Masi, materialism, metaphysical vitalism, methodology, Michael Levin, min, nest-building, nurturing, Peter Corning, physical vitalism, physics, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, protection, Richard Sternberg, synergy, teleonomy, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vital force, vitalism Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism Daniel Witt June 6, 2025 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning 11 As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started. Read More ›
Mountain_gorilla_(Gorilla_beringei_beringei)_female_2 Type post Author Daniel Witt Date August 15, 2024 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignPhilosophy Tagged , agency, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, coevolution, evo-devo, evolutionary theorists, hunter-gatherers, materialism, niche construction, Parmenides, Plato, sacred cows, self-organization, symbiogenesis, synergy, Systems Biology, teleonomy An Evolutionary Theorist Plays with Words; Let’s See How Far It Gets Him Daniel Witt August 15, 2024 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy 9 Francis Heylighen’s “ontology of relational agency” starts with an interesting observation. Read More ›
DNA Type post Author Daniel Witt Date May 1, 2024 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent DesignOrigin of LifePhysics Tagged , Casey Luskin, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, genetic change, horizontal gene transfer, New Synthesis, panspermia, Peter Corning, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purposiveness, symbiosis, synergistic selection, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia Another Call for a “New Synthesis” Daniel Witt May 1, 2024 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics 7 I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Read More ›
emperor penguins Type post Author Daniel Witt Date April 10, 2024 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Bertrand Russell, chromosomes, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, DNA, emperor penguins, eukaryotes, evolution, foresight, genes, genetic code, Grand Unified Theory, intelligent design, Michael Behe, multicellularity, natural selection, No Free Lunch, Peter Corning, proteins, random variation, RNA, self-replicating molecules, sexual reproduction, synergistic selection, synergy, The Design Inference, turtles, William A. Dembski Synergies All the Way Down Daniel Witt April 10, 2024 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 7 Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth. Read More ›
