Tag: abductive reasoning
How to Discuss Intelligent Design with Friends
There is so much misinformation about the theory of ID that many well-intended people reject not the actual theory but a silly caricature, a straw man.
Stephen Meyer, James Croft: Philosophers Battle Over the God Hypothesis
Croft ultimately had the worse of the argument on substance, as I intend to show over several forthcoming posts.
Artificial Intelligence: Unseating the Inevitability Narrative
World-class chess, Go, and Jeopardy-playing programs are impressive, but they prove nothing about whether computers can be made to achieve AGI.
Biophysicist and Philosopher Kirk Durston on Experimental, Inferential, and Fantasy Science
In a conversation with host Andrew McDiarmid, Dr. Durston describes how abductive reasoning can be used as we consider the best explanation for the origin of biological information.