Eugene V. Koonin – Uncommon Descent

Flap over use of term “intelligent design” in PNAS paper

It’s possible that what Phillips means by “positive Darwinian selection” is random selection that looks a lot like design. The sin is in actually using words that imply that that IS what it looks like. Just when it looks like they’ve hammered everything into submission, another bulge appears.

AnimatedDust Jerry @ 65: Well said. Either we conform our desires to the truth, or we conform the truth to our... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @58 Thanks, that is a helpful exegesis of Spinoza's position. I would add a few further points, hopefully this clarifies... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry But demanding that scientists prove the unguided OoL by producing life in a lab certainly speaks volumes about the reasoning... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes StephenB Ori: Ted is made by God, so, Ted is a secondary cause. God is the necessary/sufficient cause of the... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
kairosfocus Origenes, PM1 is trying to put a wall of partition between convictions, intuition, reasoning and arguing. This may well reflect... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PPS, well do I remember the advice that when one gets truly stuck on a geometry problem, take a break,... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes KF ~ Charles Darwin & self-referential incoherence. On the other hand, if we consider the whole universe, the mind refuses... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, he is tracing the imagined discredit of mind and its convictions to ancestry as he imagines. Notice, he does... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus F/N: I should add from Marx, Communist Manifesto, Ch 2: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm But don’t wrangle with us so long as you... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry It’s interesting the extent to which people will make up gobbledygook in order to justify being against something. The universe... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 In re: 251 and 253, I really do think you are badly misreading what Darwin is actually saying. He is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes DogDoc @56 I think it might help for you to reconsider each of these questions, but instead of asking how... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 Belfast at 58 and 60. Thanks. – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 And in the following video, the late Isabel Piczek, who made a 3-D sculpture from the Shroud of Turin states... – Has string theory really fallen this...
bornagain77 So again, and mathematically speaking, the main problem unifying Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity is that there is apparently an... – Has string theory really fallen this...
bornagain77 The first paragraph of the article states, "String theory began over 50 years ago as a way to understand the... – Has string theory really fallen this...
kairosfocus PM1, I think I should add some remarks. First, the letter, which is not easy to find as there is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus Origenes [attn FP, JVL & Sandy]: it is manifest that if chemistry was valid 3 - 5 BYA, it is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, precisely. CRD was playing logic with a swivel, when it is massively evident that Math is as abstract, abstruse... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Querius Belfast @60, One who “accepts” Spinoza’s God need not worry about origin of the universe – the universe IS God,... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus FP, piling on on a widespread, intentional slander speaks volumes, not in your favour. We are all aware of how... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...