Tag: Thomas Kuhn
Troubles with the Tree of Life
Sixty years ago, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn listed what he described as the “symptoms” of a research field undergoing destabilizing change.
Intelligent Design and Natural Theology
How just is the imputation of “neo-creationist” tendencies to members of the intelligent design community?
Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis?
Biologist Jonathan Wells contends that modern evolutionary theory is a current instance of a dominant paradigm in crisis.
Jonathan Wells: Scientific Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn argued from the history of science that reigning scientific paradigms do not give way gently and rationally before new and conflicting evidence.
The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution
The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack.