Tag: vital force
Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism
As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started.
Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?
Vitalism is the age-old idea that living things possess a vital force — some fundamental element that generally does not exist in non-life.
Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?
For proponents of ID, there is a natural temptation to respond to this sort of explanation with derision. I suspect this reaction may be short-sighted.
Listen: Nancy Pearcey on the Surprising Early History of Darwinism
Some of Darwin’s chief defenders believed in God or a “vital force” guiding evolution. But Darwin would have none of it.