Tag: watchmaker

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, Annie Besant, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, Connop Thirlwall, David Hanke, David Newsome, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, James Henry Froude, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, accident, acorn, Aristotle, atheism, causation, cellular metabolism, chance, complexity, Darwinism, deism, efficient cause, evolution, Fifth Way, final cause, Five Ways, formal cause, intelligent design, material cause, natural science, nature, oak tree, order, patterns, purpose, specification, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, watchmaker}

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

_{Michael Egnor
October 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics

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What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›

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post

Date
June 13, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, A Universe from Nothing, amino acid residues, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian processes, DNA, Douglas Axe, E. coli, genes, genetic information, intelligent design, Joseph Thornton, Lawrence Krauss, Long Term Evolution Experiment, Michael Behe, mind, natural selection, Nature (journal), nucleotide sequences, polypeptides, proteins, Richard Lenski, Undeniable (book), Uppsala University, watchmaker, William A. Dembski}

“Genes Out of Nothing”? Two Studies Demonstrate the Power of Mind

_{Science and Culture
June 13, 2019

Intelligent Design

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Researchers at Uppsala University describe the challenge they face — and that standard Darwinian processes had to face. Read More ›

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post

Date
November 28, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, Boltzmann brains, Charles Darwin, Cleanthes, clockmaker, cosmic fine-tuning, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Edinburgh, Flying Spaghetti Monster, instinct, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life, natural theology, Philo, physicists, rationality, Richard Dawkins, software, universe, vitalism, watchmaker}

Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

_{Science and Culture
November 28, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
November 25, 2016

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, appearance of design, complexity theory, Darwin skeptics, defining id, defining terms, design intuition, molecular machines, Mount Rushmore, Rocky Mountains, watchmaker, William Paley}

Best of Behe: Design for Living

_{Michael Behe
November 25, 2016

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

5}

I have found widespread confusion about what intelligent design is and what it is not. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
April 29, 2012

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Age of Reason, deism, design intuition, history of id, intellectual history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, watchmaker, William Paley}

Reason, not Revelation: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Watchmaker

_{Mike Keas
April 29, 2012

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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"I admire the workman in the details of his work, and I am quite certain that all these wheels only work together in this fashion for some common end which I cannot perceive." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 14, 2006

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, avida, blind, Dawkins, meaningful, mutations, random, Robert Pennock, simulation, UC San Diego, watchmaker, Weasel program, wiker, witt, world}

University of California, San Diego Forces All Freshmen To Attend Anti-ID Lecture

_{Casey Luskin
November 14, 2006

Intelligent Design, Science Education

10}

Since 1998, Michael Behe, Phillip Johnson, Jonathan Wells, William Dembski, and Paul Nelson have all spoken at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Now UCSD is striking back. Tonight, anti-ID philosopher of science Robert Pennock is being paid by UCSD’s Council of Provosts and the Division of Biological Sciences to speak against intelligent design in a lecture that is free and open to the public in UCSD’s RIMAC Arena (which holds about 5000 people). Of course, these groups are all taxpayer-supported. Not only is this free event open to anyone, but TritonLink, the UCSD student website, on its main home-page, reports that Professor Pennock’s lecture is mandatory attendance for all freshmen: “All first-quarter freshmen are required to attend Read More ›

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Author
Logan Paul Gage

Date
November 14, 2006

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, avida, blind, Dawkins, meaningful, mutations, random, simulation, Views, watchmaker, Weasel program, wiker, witt, world}

Random Mutation Generator

_{Logan Paul Gage
November 14, 2006

Evolution

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If you have not seen it already, you will enjoy playing with this random mutation generator. You will see how wonderful the Darwinian process is at taking your text and moving on to ever-greater levels of complexity.