Category: Philosophy
Space Shuttle Denying Darwinists (SSDD)
| June 18, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Humor, Philosophy |
SSDD is an acronym for “Same Stuff Different Day”. In debate with Darwinists, it’s always the same stuff, different day. SSDD can be also an acronym for Space Shuttle Denying Darwinists — that is to say Darwinists that are so against ID that they will even deny that Space Shuttles are intelligently designed. Such people… more
RDF/AIG as a case of the incoherence and rhetorical agenda of evolutionary materialist thought and/or its fellow- traveller ideologies
For the past several weeks, there has been an exchange that developed in the eduction vs persuasion thread (put up May 9th by AndyJones), on first principles of right reason and related matters. Commenter RDF . . . has championed some popular talking points in today’s intellectual culture. We can therefore pick up from a… more
History: When reductionism started to become ridiculous?
| June 6, 2013 | Posted by News under Philosophy, Science |
Someone might reduce a house cat to chemical elements to see what a cat is, but that isn’t what a cat is. more
Evolution, Intelligent Design and Extraordinary Claims – Part III
| June 2, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under Biology, Complex Specified Information, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Philosophy, Selective Hyperskepticism |
This my third installment of a discussion I began here and continued here on the validity of the claim that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”, or what I call the EC-EE claim. In the first installment we looked at the EC-EE claim itself and asked whether the EC-EE claim is an example of an EC-EE… more
Retro now: C.S. Lewis on scientism and gullibility
| June 1, 2013 | Posted by News under Philosophy, Science |
People who thought we know nothing of historic man believed theories about prehistoric man. more
Brandeis commencement speaker blasts “false,” “disastrous” scientism
| June 1, 2013 | Posted by News under Culture, Philosophy, Science |
Wieseltier is right., and there’s more: Every science that scientism touches, it turns into magic. more
Neuroscientist: Not only isn’t philosophy dead, it isn’t even on life support
| May 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Philosophy, Science |
Tallis is, of course, best known for his recent book, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity. more
The ghost of William Paley says his piece in reply to Darwin and successors, on the commonly dismissed “watch found in the field” argument
Over at the KF blog, we have recently been entertaining some ghosts from our civilisation’s past, who are concerned about its present and now sadly likely future in light of the sad history recorded in Acts 27, of a sea voyage to Rome gone disastrously wrong because the voyagers were manipulated into venturing back out… more
Quality, Quantity and Intelligent Design
| May 27, 2013 | Posted by niwrad under Complex Specified Information, Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
In all things there are two different kinds of characteristics: quality and quantity. While quantity is relatively easy to define, quality is difficult to define or specify. Consider an apple. It is easy to grasp what is the difference between one apple, two apples, three apples… only an integer number changes, representing the amount of… more
Naturalism, Intelligent Design and Extraordinary Claims
| May 24, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under Biology, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Philosophy, Science, Science, Philosophy and (Natural) Theology |
The late Carl Sagan is credited with popularizing the phrase “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. (hereinafter this will be referred to as the “EC-EE” claim) While the phrase has become the skeptic’s mantra, its original roots probably trace back to the French mathematician and astronomer Pierre –Simon LaPlace (1749-1827) who once wrote: “the weight of… more
Academy turning on Thomas Nagel big time, for not spouting nonsense against design in nature
| May 24, 2013 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, Philosophy |
Thought crime: Nagel really got their noses out of joint by sympathizing with theorists of intelligent design. more
A corrective to some remarks regarding first principles of reason, showing that such first principles are just that . . .
| May 20, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Culture, Education, ID Foundations, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Philosophy, Science, worldview issues and society |
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It seems I need to headline a corrective footnote on basic reasoning, from an ongoing exchange in a current discussion thread: ________ >> I decided to take a look around via Google. It was saddening but unsurprising to see the party-spirited objections to first principles of reason coming from the circle of objector sites. Inadvertently, they… more
On pulling a cosmos out of a non-existent hat . . .
| May 12, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cosmology, ID Foundations, language, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Philosophy, Physics |
This morning, CH has by implication raised the issue that has been hotly debated recently: getting a cosmos out of “nothing.” I thought it would be helpful to headline my comment: ______________ >> . . . “Something from nothing” is always problematic. Now, I know I know, here is Ethan Siegel of Science Blogs in… more
Theology According to P.Z. Myers
| May 9, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under 'Junk DNA', Biology, Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
Over on The Panda’s Thumb blog, Darwinian apologist P.Z. Myers recently posted a pejorative laden critique of a review article by Casey Luskin. Luskin was responding to a recent New York Times article on a study purporting to show how certain genes in fish might hold an important clue on how fins turned to feet.… more
A “simple” summing up of the basic case for scientifically inferring design (in light of the logic of scientific induction per best explanation of the unobserved past)
In answering yet another round of G’s talking points on design theory and those of us who advocate it, I have outlined a summary of design thinking and its links onward to debates on theology, that I think is worth being somewhat adapted, expanded and headlined. With your indulgence: _______________ >> The epistemological warrant for… more
Design, Teleology and Omega Watches
| April 24, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under Cosmology, Design inference, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
The Omega watch company’s co-axial chronometer is billed as the most precise mechanical device in the world. In their video ad featured here, the images associate the intricate design of the cosmos with the design of the watch…a classic teleological argument. The implication seems to be that the intricate, superb design of the watch is… more
Rosenhouse Concedes Without Realizing It
| April 2, 2013 | Posted by johnnyb under Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics, Science |
There is currently a discussion going on about Nagel’s new book, Mind and Cosmos between Ed Feser and Jason Rosenhouse. Feser takes Rosenhouse to task pretty well but there’s one thing that I think he overlooks – Rosenhouse actually winds up conceding the entire argument at the end. more
Stirring the Pot, 3a: Responding to G2′s dismissal of philosophy at UD by highlighting the scientific significance of first principles of right reason and corollaries, including those tied to cause and effect . . .
| March 22, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under ID Foundations, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Philosophy, science education, Science, Philosophy and (Natural) Theology, Science, worldview issues and society, Stirring the pot (tentative thoughts/explorations) |
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G2 has made an objection at 45 in the STP 3 thread on how UD is a philosophy-theology site, and how he sees no science advances. I think it worth the whole to highlight a response, as a headlined post supportive to the STP 3 thread; of course with the added features such as images.… more
What’s Your Evolutionary Quotient?
| February 9, 2013 | Posted by William J Murray under Atheism, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
Let’s consider that atheistic, Darwinstic materialism is true. Let’s say that what we believe and think are evolution-generated phenomena, the result of the physics of biology as it interacts with the environment. For instance, if I believe in God and think demons are real and that putting my socks on before I put my pants… more
VIDEO: The Feb 1, 2013 Craig- Rosenberg debate: “Is Faith in God Reasonable?”
| February 2, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Philosophy, Science, worldview issues and society, Video |
Thanks to Bornagain 77′s diligence, we are able to bring to UD’s readership, this important debate on the reasonableness (or otherwise) of theistic faith in an era dominated by Science, with Scientism an influential worldview rooted in the prestige of science: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt (NB: The debate proper begins at 4 10 mins… more
(NB: The debate proper begins at 4 10 mins 27 48 seconds in, with the moderator’s introduction.)
Let us watch, let us reflect, let us discuss. END
PS: I have also put up the Dawkins-Williams Jan 31st 2013 debate here. (HT: SG.)
PPS: I think it worthwhile to add this David Wood video on the argument from reason:
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