Tag: “God of the gaps”
Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field
The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan.
Intelligent Design, Ahead of Its Time: More on W. E. Lönnig’s 1971 Thesis
In his youth, Dr. Lönnig bravely opposed dogma that was almost universally accepted and perilous to question.
Meyer: Quantum Cosmology, the Multiverse, and Stephen Hawking
Newton, Kepler, and other founders of modern science were inspired to search out and find the rational order hidden in nature because they were theists.
Meyer on Looking for Croissants in an Art Museum
Scientists who label intelligent design as a “God of the gaps” argument are not unlike the incensed man in the art gallery.
Applying Bayes’ Theorem to Biological Design
Suppose we want to know the odds that a particular individual won last week’s Mega Millions jackpot in the United States.