Trinity007 Type post Author Daniel Witt Date June 6, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignPhilosophyScientific Reasoning Tagged , academia, animals, biological complexity, biology, chemistry, Evolution News, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, materialism, methodology, Michael Levin, nest-building, nurturing, Peter Corning, physics, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, 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, hunter-gatherers, materialism, niche construction, Plato, self-organization, 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, horizontal gene transfer, panspermia, Peter Corning, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, symbiosis, 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, eukaryotes, evolution, foresight, genes, genetic code, intelligent design, Michael Behe, multicellularity, natural selection, No Free Lunch, Peter Corning, proteins, random variation, RNA, sexual reproduction, 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 ›
