Tag: historical sciences
What Is the Positive Case for Intelligent Design?
Imagine that you took your 4×4 truck off-roading and you returned home with the truck covered in mud.
Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?
Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son.
Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?
Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa.
Answering an Objection: “You Can’t Measure Intelligent Design”
We test intelligent design in the same way that we test all historical scientific theories.
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.