Tag: teleonomy

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", biology, cells, Chance & Necessity, CRISPRs, Daniel Witt, Evolution on Purpose, final cause, foxes, hares, integrons, intelligent design, internal regulatory control networks, James Shapiro, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, materialist paradigm, miracles, Modern Synthesis, molecules, mutations, neo-Darwinian evolution, organisms, organs, Peter Corning, purpose, retroposons, science of purpose, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, transposons}

From Materialist Biologists, a Profound Capitulation

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific 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

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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 ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Brian Miller, cognition, David Klinghoffer, decision-making, DNA, embryos, genes, Harvard University, ID the Future, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, life, Michael Levin, nucleotide alteration, physicalism, physicists, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, podcast, purpose, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, scientific revolution, software, splicing, teleonomy, Tufts University}

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 6, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

4}

Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, biology, cognition, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, electric fields, ENCODE project, evolutionary theory, Forrest Mims, genome, goal-directedness, Harvard University, human genome, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Levin, minds, Perry Marshall, Peter A. Corning, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, purpose, random mutations, relational biology, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman, teleonomy, Tufts University, Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, William A. Dembski}

Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 21, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, autopoiesis, bacteria, biologists, Charles Darwin, diversification, emergence, Forensics, Gandalf, Harry Potter, intelligence, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mendelian genetics, Michael Behe, microscopes, molecular structures, Mount Doom, Neo-Darwinism, panpsychism, random variation, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, self-organization, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy, universe}

Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic?

_{Daniel Witt
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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

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Francis Heylighen’s “ontology of relational agency” starts with an interesting observation. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Andréa Morris, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Evolution News, Forbes, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Joana Xavier, MIT Press, neo-Darwinists, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, Perry Marshall, persecution, physiologists, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy}

Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble: Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

_{Daniel Witt and David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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We were wondering when the (often very dramatic) claims made recently in arcane academic texts would begin making more of a splash in the popular media. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
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 ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chickens, eggs, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, First Cause, intelligent design, living systems, Michael Behe, MIT Press, natural genetic engineering, Peter Corning, Platonic forms, purposiveness, symbiogenesis, teleonomy, William A. Dembski}

Design Without a Designer? New Book Says Yes!

_{Daniel Witt
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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So, does the teleonomic explanation hold up? Well, we have to ask: where does “teleonomy” come from? Why does it exist? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
September 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›