Tag: philosophers
Apart from Non-Material Consciousness, Science Is Impossible
Whether and how we choose to measure something has a big impact, which makers consciousness very difficult to just explain away.
Intelligent Design and the Problem of Pain
It is often claimed that the design inference is a religious conclusion. It is not.
William Dembski Offers an Updated Edition of an Intelligent Design Classic
Dembski says he stands by that work and his early contributions to intelligent design theory, but adds that he has learned a lot more in the intervening years.
Behe Answers Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity
Following the philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Pat Flynn says that some of the attacks on Behe have been hysterical, but some have been more thoughtful.
Should Spider Dreaming Really Give Us “Ethical Pause”?
The discovery of REM sleep in spiders is morphing into vast claims that we have “urgent and inexorable ethical obligations” to them and other life forms.