Tag: testability

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 26, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain organoids, cancel culture, chickens, Christof Koch, consciousness, Copernican Principle of Consciousness, Debrief, degenerating paradigm, Essentia Foundation, falsifiability, Frontiers in Science, Hans Busstra, Imre Lakatos, machines, Marxism, neuroscientists, predictions, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Science Daily, testability, Tim McMillan, Wiliam Hunter}

Got Any Theories of Consciousness? Sure, About 325 of Them

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 26, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Consciousness research may be a degenerating paradigm. Philosopher Imre Lakatos used the term to refer to a situation where science is not progressing. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birth, brain, conception, Elliott Sober, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, Evolution of the Brain, evolutionary theory, fetus, individuality, intelligent design, John C. Eccles, Karl Popper, lottery, Mehmet Elgin, mind, natural selection, neuroscience, purpose, purposeful nature, recant, recantation, spiritual creation, testability, The Self and Its Brain, theology, uniqueness}

Popper and Purposeful Nature: A Note on the So-Called “Recantation”

_{Michael Flannery
March 10, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A correspondent raises this famous statement of Karl Popper on natural selection, with his “historically loaded word ‘recant.’” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, AI Overview, archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, Forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, intelligent design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine}

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, attorneys, biology, Casey Luskin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwinian evolution, defining id, defining science, definist fallacy, demarcation criteria, evidence, evidence for id, evolution, geologists, historical sciences, ID research program, intelligent design, lawyers, natural world, peer-reviewed literature, predictive-success, Research, science, scientific method, testability}

The Divide Between Science and Non-Science

_{David Klinghoffer
July 7, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The most commonly heard charge against ID is that it “isn’t science” and therefore can’t even be evaluated as a scientific alternative to Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
October 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, beauty, conflict myth, empirical data, empiricism, evolution, faith and science, Paul Dirac, physical world, scientific theories, scientism, secularism, Steven Weinberg, testability, truth, water}

What Science Owes to Faith, Hope, and Love

_{Stephen Dilley
October 31, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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It's a stretch to say that our ability to do realist science arose from a mindless process of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 20, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abiogenesis, argument from ignorance, artificial intelligence, biases, ChatGPT, chemical evolution, comets, complexity, cosmic fine-tuning, early Earth, higher intelligence, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, meteorites, methodological naturalism, multiverse, natural selection, Occam's Razor, panpsychism, panspermia, physical constants, physical laws, primordial soup, self-organization, testability, thermodynamics}

Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
September 20, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
December 2, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, chewing, common descent, Epicurus, evolution, evolutionists, falsifiability, flat tire, Imre Lakatos, intelligent design, organs, predictions, teeth, teleology, testability}

Ultra-Conserved Elements: New Paper, Same Old Results

_{Cornelius Hunter
December 2, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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UCEs are conserved structures that are not functionally constrained. Yet there is not so much as a hint of a problem for evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 13, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", bacterial flagellum, Big Bang, Christianity, cosmic design, cosmic fine-tuning, Craig Venter, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, evolution, Francis Collins, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Denton, New Atheists, non-coding DNA, physical constants, Richard Dawkins, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, testability, The Language of God, Wired Magazine}

Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

_{Jonathan Witt
October 13, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, abstract thought, brain, cloning, DNA, embryos, gestation, human cloning, intellect, mammals, matter, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, proteins, scientific evidence, somatic cell nuclear transfer, testability, Wesley J. Smith, will}

Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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A premise here is that abstract thought is a unique human endowment, so our colleague Wesley Smith will also find this of interest as a scientific test of human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
April 30, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, bacteria, chemical energy, common ancestor, common ancestry, common descent, Darwinian theory, evolution, evolutionary tree, evolutionists, mitochondria, multicellular life, predictions, species, testability}

Rewrite the Textbooks (Again): Origin of Mitochondria Blown Up

_{Cornelius Hunter
April 30, 2018

Evolution

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Why are evolutionists always wrong? And why are they always so sure of themselves? Read More ›