Tag: Elliott Sober
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.
How Embryonic Development Bears on Evolution
In order for evolution to have occurred as the orthodox theory describes, the intricate embryonic development stages of species must have evolved.