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Design Disquisitions: Design & the Problem of Intelligibility

Many critics of intelligent design argue that not only is ID false (or at least unscientific), but that it is basically meaningless. Such lines of criticism come from philosophers such as Sahotra Sarkar and Elliott Sober. They argue that the general concepts that are assumed in ID discussions like ‘design’ and ‘intelligence’ are too primitive and Read More…

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Design Disquisitions: Critic’s Corner-Elliott Sober

Over at Design Disquisitions I have a new ‘Critic’s Corner’ post. This one focusses on the work related to ID and evolution by Elliott Sober, a prominent ID critic and philosopher of science. I’ve always seen Sober as a more sophisticated critic of ID. This will be a handy resource for finding pretty much everything that Read More…

Karen McMannus In Hawkings A Brief History of Time, Hawkings wrote that the universe, "Just Is." I wrote him and asked, "why... – Stephen Hawking was Sometimes Embarrassingly Stupid
polistra This also fits the complex-first template. The ipsilateral plus bilateral arrangement requires a lot of coordination and trickery in the... – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
martin_r News> Isn’t this becoming a trend? just yesterday i posted the same here, and also the day before yesterday... and... – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
Pearlman per Pearlman YeC: considering the one year that was the 1656 anno-mundi impacts year, aka global flood by Noach accounts... – Günter Bechly: Paper says Cambrian Explosion...
Mung Upright Biped, you need to learn how to lie. – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Mung No. My brain appeared circa 1959. – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
Karen McMannus Speckle – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic Seversky The phenomenon or entity has not been observed to result from natural processes and it resembles what human beings... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic Seversky What I do not accept – and neither, apparently, do many of those working in this field – is... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
JVL Upright BiPed: Yes JVL, you go lay down for a while. Those mean ID proponents are only picking on you... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic JVL No, that’s not the whole criteria. Well, I actually came up with that scenario to help you out -... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
polistra Amazing. We reinvented this function with System Restore on computers. Billions of years late as usual. – More Pseudogene Function
mohammadnursyamsu The fact that organisms exhibit functionally integrated complexity, is evidence that they came to be by sophisticated decisionmaking processes, intelligent... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Upright BiPed Yes JVL, you go lay down for a while. Those mean ID proponents are only picking on you for using... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
JVL Upright BiPed: And neither can address it. I think I will quit for a while at least. I'm tired. Tired... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
JVL Silver Asiatic: So, it’s not a matter of independently looking at the evidence, but rather of assigning value to proposal... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic Seversky @444 That's an excellent response - thank you. There are subtle points that miss the target but the detailed... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Upright BiPed . One uses a gratuitous double standard to ignore the evidence, the other merely requires a logical impossibility. Birds of... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
JVL Seversky: I think that in spite of your valiant efforts you are not going to make any further headway. IDCists... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic Here's a possible solution. I framed JVL's position something like this (and he agreed): "I’m not an expert and I... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Seversky JVL, I think that in spite of your valiant efforts you are not going to make any further headway. IDCists... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...