David Stove – Uncommon Descent

Neil Thomas on “The Dawkinsian Mythology”

Thomas: In the course of opposing Dawkins’s attempt to extend further the Darwinian imperium into the realm of “universal Darwinism,” philosopher Anthony Flew even disputed whether the term “natural selection” had any genuine meaning at all, questioning the selective power Darwin claimed for it.

Design inference Intelligent Design

Did the argument for design in nature suffer a fatal blow from David Hume?

A friend writes to remind us that agnostic Australian philosopher David Stove, author of Darwinian Fairytales, did not think so.

martin_r Alan Fox Not only R. Dawkins disagree with you, but what is more important, because your education, you are not... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Alan Fox By the way, the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to you as well, you don’t realize that, do you ?I have spent... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Alan Fox Not only R. Dawkins disagree with you, but what is more important, because your education, you are not qualified to... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Alan Fox so far i gave you several examples where top biologists comment on design/engineering.No you didn't. Whether "Design" is involved is... – Man-ape chasm of differences
martin_r Alan Fox so far I gave you several examples where top biologists comment on design/engineering. You perfectly understand that these... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Alan Fox Regarding Dunning-Kruger, try asking a question that doesn't contain a preconception. – Man-ape chasm of differences
Alan Fox Martin_r Lents is making the same point that I made in 165. Evolutionary changes are constrained by the requirement for... – Man-ape chasm of differences
martin_r Alan Fox, you wanted some additional explanation on "In what way is the passage you quote a comment on design/engineering?... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Alan Fox But finding an example of a constraint violation in evolutionary theory would not be evidence of "Intelligent Design". ID's problem... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Alan Fox I think most "Intelligent Design"vs evolution hinge on constraints. Evolution imposes the requisite of the unbroken chain of descent on... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Alan Fox Martin_r “The Laryngeal Nerve is obviously bad design” Good catch. I see you didn't have to do much work to... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Alan Fox @ KF You omitted a couple of pivotal facts. 1. The process of selection. Evolution is more than blind chance.... – Man-ape chasm of differences
martin_r Alan Fox, first of all, i found out, that it is not entirely true that Dawkins does not say much... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Caspian PM1@ 30: I appreciate your thoughts. Part of what you said is: "This contains, I think, the main idea that... – The Thought that Stops Thought
Origenes Naturalistic evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood perfectly. 1) No gods worth having exist; 2) no life after... – The Thought that Stops Thought
bornagain77 As to: Some scientists suspect that quantum processes, including entanglement, might help us explain the brain’s enormous power, and its... – At Big Think: Brain experiment suggests...
jerry My problem is with the notion of emergence or essentially, it just happened. This is part of the Rosen book.... – The Thought that Stops Thought
kairosfocus Q, a very good approach to science is, that it is reverse engineering nature, identifying how it was put together... – Man-ape chasm of differences
kairosfocus SG [attn AF], gaslighting on a turnabout projection. We do routinely observe intelligently directed configuration producing FSCO/I beyond 500 -... – Man-ape chasm of differences
kairosfocus PS, One certain William Provine, similarly: Naturalistic evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood perfectly. 1) No gods worth... – The Thought that Stops Thought
kairosfocus PM1, I give you as a key case in point, one certain Sir Francis Crick (1994: The Astonishing Hypothesis), raising... – The Thought that Stops Thought