happy-father-having-fun-while-playing-with-his-small-son-at-432892410-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Michael Egnor Date June 12, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , adjectives, agent causation, B. F. Skinner, behavior, behaviorism, children, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, free will, grammar, intellect, Jerry Fodor, language, Language Acquisition Device, language organ, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, mental states, Michael Behe, Noam Chomsky, nouns, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, The Immortal Mind, Verbal Behavior, verbs, What Darwin Got Wrong Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done Michael Egnor June 12, 2025 Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 5 The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes. Read More ›
Daniel-Dennett Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date January 22, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , Aeon, atheism, chairs, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, eliminative materialism, folk psychology, humans, Jerry Fodor, Monash University, philosophers, What Darwin Got Wrong Daniel Dennett: The Final Prophet? Denyse O’Leary January 22, 2025 Evolution, Faith & Science 6 Dennett’s approach to human consciousness has not only borne no fruit but it is hard to see how it ever could. Read More ›
Lamprey Type post Author Casey Luskin Date March 8, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionLife Sciences Tagged , Altenberg 16, athletes, biological novelty, body size, Cambrian Explosion, Communications Biology, evolution, Gerd Müller, gradualism, humans, Jeffrey Schwartz, Jerry Fodor, lamprey, mammals, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, New Zealand, Paul Nelson, PowerPoint, Richard Goldschmidt, Royal Society, Science Daily, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Material Basis of Evolution, What Darwin Got Wrong Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism Casey Luskin March 8, 2022 Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences 15 Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology. Read More ›
Darioconusauricomusshell_large Type post Author Casey Luskin Date July 6, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , "God of the gaps", adaptationist, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, empirical science, evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William A. Dembski, zoologists Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field Casey Luskin July 6, 2021 Evolution, Intelligent Design 12 The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›
