beaks – Uncommon Descent

At Smithsonian Magazine: Why birds survived but not dinosaurs

Researchers: Beaked birds had the advantage that they could live on seeds from destroyed forests until new vegetation grew again.

StephenB SB: Dissatisfaction with the current state or condition is not the only possible motive for creating the universe. It could... – Hitchhiker’s Guide author’s “puddle” argument against...
polistra There's a lot of dense jargon in that paragraph. If I'm reading it right, the most important irreducible complexity is... – Forget what you thought you knew...
StephenB KM: ---"All that is fine [rules of right reason] within spacetime by brains doing Reason. You establish premises and you... – Hitchhiker’s Guide author’s “puddle” argument against...
kairosfocus F/N: I think we need to hear Paley in his own voice from Ch 2 of his Nat Theol, failure... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
kairosfocus KM, I generally agree with your note just now. KF – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
Karen McMannus Paige: Emergence as an explanation is based on a claim that consciousness is based on process that we do not... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
hnorman42 In reading over the comments that deal with the OP, I've noticed that there's a high degree of accord on... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
kairosfocus Paige, you yourself experience conscious self-aware intelligence. To create an objecting comment you intelligently directed some sort of computer to... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
StephenB JVL: --- "When you look at unguided evolution and assume that a bunch of small steps cannot possibly add up... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
Viola Lee If it's not too late, UB, you might fix the block quotes in 139. I look forward to responding in... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
Upright BiPed . VL at 134, As I said in 43 and quoted in 118, ” I think ID is primarily a... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
kairosfocus PS: As it seems images were messed up in older OPs when WP went over to the block style approach... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
paige BA Going back to the subject of the OP (consciousness), the design explanation is obviously better because it might possibly... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
kairosfocus JVL, here is a discussion I just updated with illustrative maps on search challenge with islands of function. KF – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
Querius This is a nice excerpt from the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago: Over a century ago, G.K.... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
Querius False dichotomy. There are other options besides those two. Vacuous unsupported assertions. Maybe they're true, but someone making such an... – Some thoughts from Richard Feynman on...
kairosfocus JVL, you have been here long enough to know the threshold set by search challenge on sol system scale [10^57... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
Viola Lee Yes, my point about guided/unguided being a non-productive dichotomy applies to certain metaphysical views, including mine and other philosophical and... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle
Querius . . . can be applied to this bizarre situation where young adherents to theistic evolution join ranks with atheists... – Karsten Pultz: Christian students in Denmark...
Querius Dr. Hossenfelder posted an amazing graph comparing the expected relationship between orbital velocity versus distance. This graph encapsulates the frustrating... – How Sabine Hossenfelder’s opinion of dark...
Barry Arrington JVL Perhaps it would be good to explore what ID proponents mean by it being a ‘better’ explanation of the... – Emergence and the Dormitive Principle