12Jun 2024 by Post

Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

André Ariew, Burger King, C.S. Lewis, capitalists, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, eugenics, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Francis Galton, Freudianism, Hugh Desmond, Intelligent Design, J.P. Moreland, Liliana M. Dávalos, Marxism, Marxists, Nancy Pearcey, Nazism, Neil Thomas, Philippe Huneman, Quarterly Review of Biology, Thomas Reydon, Yoda complex
Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Source
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01May 2024 by Post

Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

biology, Casey Luskin, cooperative effects, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, Evolution, Extended Synthesis, genetic change, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Lamarckian evolution, New Synthesis, origin of life, panspermia, Peter Corning, physics, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purposiveness, retroactive admission of ignorance, selective pressures, symbiosis, synergism hypothesis, synergistic selection, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia
I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Source
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06Mar 2024 by Post

Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?

Ann Gauger, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christianity, cosmology, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Education, environmental fitness, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, intrinsic plausibility, Ireland, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Danaher, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, microbiology, motives, Phillip Johnson, prior probability, probability theory, Stephen Meyer, Steve Fuller, teach the controversy, theistic religion, University of Galway, William Dembski
If Danaher wants to scrutinize the religious motives of ID proponents, we have to consider what such a line of attack would do to evolution. Source
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12Feb 2024 by Post

For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff

Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, Darwin’s Bluff, demythologization, dogma, Evolution, history, history of science, Intelligent Design, Jeffrey Kripal, Luther College, On the Origin of Species, religion, rhetorical devices, Rice University, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, scientific naturalism, Steve Fuller, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, University of Warwick
Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished. Source
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23Nov 2023 by Post

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

academia, brain, Darwinism, Evolution, Fornace, gratitude, Harvard University, ID movement, Intelligent Design, Italy, James Tour, Lee Cronin, materialism, matter, Michael Denton, mind, Minding the Brain, origin of life, Scuola di Filosofia di Fornace, Thanksgiving, The Miracle of Man
One reason, he says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. This conversation is itself evidence on the latter point. Source
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01Oct 2023 by Post

Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

audible range, botany, cognition, Darwinism, David G. Robinson, ecologists, EMBO Reports, emotions, Frantisek Baluška, infection, intelligence, Life Sciences, Louvre, mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, panpsychism, plants, random mutations, spirituality, Tel Aviv University, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, University of Heidelberg, water deprivation, ZME Science
Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Source
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03Jul 2023 by Post

With Becket Cook, David Berlinski Discusses Speech as a Problem for Darwin, and More

animal life, animals, Becket Cook, Bible, communication, Darwinism, David Berlinski, discontinuity, Dogs, Evolution, externalization, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, humans, Jesuits, Ovid, pets, Science After Babel
Dog owners know that to look into your dog’s eyes is often to see that the dog has something he wishes to say but lacks the “machinery for externalization.” Source
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