Tag: functional coherence
A Child’s Intuition of Purpose in Nature Is No Accident
In 1929, child psychologist Jean Piaget called children “artificialists” who tend to regard everything as “the product of human creation.”
Undeniable Intuitions and Unbelievable Coincidences
Any appeal to accidental processes to accomplish an unbelievable coincidence is really just an appeal to unbelievable coincidence.
Why Certainty Doesn’t Always Require Accuracy — A $5 Lesson in Probability
As our dialogue continues, I think I’m starting to understand your position more clearly.
The Calculation-Free Design Intuition and the Calculations That Validate It
From childhood, we all naturally ascribe things like spiders and hummingbirds to a “God-like designer.” But are we right to do this?
Challenge to a Critic of the Design Intuition: How Do You Explain Your Own Use of It?
Previously, I questioned a theistic evolutionist’s claim that we can’t rule out chance as an explanation for something unless the probability of chance working can be calculated accurately.