Tag: Elliott Sober
Dembski and Ruse Look Back on 20 Years of Debate — And a Special Anniversary
The protest about the “spectre of intelligent design” was telling. When critics start talking that way, you can’t help wondering if ID is onto something.
Peer-Reviewed Paper Cites Stephen Meyer to Critique Darwinian Evolution
“Many life forms with essentially new body types appeared quickly and without precursors in the Burgess Shale in Kicking Horse Valley in British Columbia.”
The Book That Launched a Thousand Barbs
Briefly, the design inference (the method rather than the book) identifies two features as essential for eliminating chance: improbability and specification.
Evolution Is Not Like Physics
A new theory of evolution extends Darwinian processes, making them into physical laws based on “learning theory.”
Philosophers Want Back into Science
One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do.