Author: Stephen C. Meyer
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
On Independence Day, it’s appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens.
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident
On Independence Day, it’s appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens.
Dawkins’s Dilemma: Misrepresent the Mechanism…or Face the Math
I was flattered to learn that Dawkins felt it necessary to come to the aid of his friend Lawrence Krauss in Krauss’s dispute with me.
Denying the Signature: More on Substance Dualism
Some form of dualism may well be a properly basic belief, justified by the universal human experience.
Denying the Signature: Of Minds and Causes
Bishop and O’Connor claim that in Darwin’s Doubt, my “analysis assumes that… mind is fundamentally immaterial.”
Denying the Signature: Methodological Naturalism and Materialism-of-the Gaps
O’Connor and Bishop offer no evolutionary mechanism as an explanation for the origin of the information necessary to produce novel forms of life.
Denying the Signature: Was My Argument Subjective?
Bishop and O’Connor claim there is no objective, scientific basis for privileging, or focusing on, “life” in my analysis.
Denying the Signature: Functional Information Is the Fact to Be Explained
Philosophers of science analyzing scientific arguments make a clear distinction between what needs to be explained and the competing explanations.
Denying the Signature: A Response to Bishop and O’Connor
Philosophers Robert Bishop and Robert O’Connor offer a cleverly titled joint review of Darwin’s Doubt and Signature in the Cell.
What Should Politicians Say When Asked About Evolution?
Scott Walker is not the only Republican hopeful to have stumbled on this question.