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kairosfocus Seversky, we both know it is notorious that communities differ on their rules across space and time. Your remark, in... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
martin_r of life to give rise to key living processes such as self-propagation, information processing, and adaptive evolution. i don't want... – Researchers propose trying different recipes for...
hoosfoos Where does moral law come from? One option is that law comes from the king. Might makes right. Another option... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
kairosfocus PS, Hitler, indeed used Darwinist type thought in his book and policy. Any crossing of two beings not at exactly... – Weikart’s new book on Darwinian racism...
Barry Arrington Sev. Without an objective and independent moral standard against which to measure it the only objective evidence is the majority... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
kairosfocus Seversky, when a theory indulges a priori ideological imposition, refuses to address the Newton rule that explanatory causal mechanisms be... – Weikart’s new book on Darwinian racism...
Seversky There you have it. Sev’s position is this: They would prefer tossing babies in dumpsters and I would not. There... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
kairosfocus VL, the explanatory filter would assign closely similar outcomes under similar start points to lawlike mechanical necessity, on looking at... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
kairosfocus DD, evasion pursuant to strawman fallacy, the core of design thought as a scientific matter is the design inference. As... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Seversky This sounds like one long argumentum ad consequentiam Even if it's all true it doesn't have any bearing on the... – Weikart’s new book on Darwinian racism...
kairosfocus ET, language and tone. KF – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
polistra Just from the basics, it seems strange to start with a liquid. Living things are solid, not liquid. More complex... – Researchers propose trying different recipes for...
polistra What happens when you use an antibiotic is just the bacteria's immune system learning about the new threat and adapting.... – BioLogos hopes to calm the fears...
Belfast @JVL “ I’ll leave it up to you to decide how that could happen and why.” Too busy to decide... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
Belfast @WJM A Tu Quoque argument is no better coming from you than it is from Seversky. – Materialists Know What They Say is...
ET Viola Lee: For example, since math is designed, every example of math showing up in the world is designed. That's... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Viola Lee To dogdoc: A number of people here would say no. For example, since math is designed, every example of math... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
StephenB WJM: They know it is evil to force someone into a situation that you know with certainty they will endure... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
ET Apparently dogdoc is too willfully ignorant to continue the conversation in a productive manner. There are many possible observations that... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Querius EDTA @64, Nicely said. I think I can add Nothing to this thread. Stay tuned . . . -Q – Remember how endless cycles of universe...
dogdoc Apparently ET is too angry to continue the conversation in a productive manner. If anyone else can answer the simple... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?