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Design Disquisitions: Jeffrey Koperski on Two Bad Ways and Two Good Ways to Attack ID (Part 1): Two Bad Ways

Here’s my new article at Design Disquisitions. Enjoy: In the next two (potentially three) articles I’ll be taking an in-depth look at an excellent paper written by Jeffrey Koperski, a philosopher of science at Saginaw Valley State University. Koperski has written about ID in several publications (1), which I highly recommend, and he takes a balanced Read More…

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Origenes The whole article reads like this terrible sentence: Takehome: If information flow in the brain is “largely unconstrained” by anatomical... – At Mind Matters News: GWT: A...
Yarrgonaut I think if we just started pointing out that a multiverse implies that we're most probably a simulated universe -... – Ethan Siegel makes another paper assault...
Yarrgonaut The researcher gave up speculating about evolutionary history to make predictions, but made a discovery based on design mechanics. This... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
polistra There seems to be a changing consensus on the damage of inbreeding. Deliberate inbreeding to achieve specific and unnatural characteristics... – Finding re endangered snakes is the...
Bob O'H Jerry - in Germany they use "heiss" for temperature-hit and scharf ("sharp") for spicy hot. – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
jerry We Made a Big Mistake…We’re Inoculating a Poison This has been known since the beginning. MedCram discussed the affect of... – BREAKING: President Trump, Mrs Trump &...
jerry What I find interesting is that spicy hot is the same as hot hot. I often comment that the food... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
Bob O'H A friend who knows the scene writes: First, their findings run counter to classic theory with respect to depression caused... – Finding re endangered snakes is the...
Hanks Neither William Lane Craig nor Ronald Cram are theoretical physicists You need to keep in mind that all scientific discoveries... – Another shot in the campaign against...
bornagain77 So that Special Relativity, (considering its 'renormalization' with quantum mechanics), would provide a more robust proof for an absolute beginning... – Another shot in the campaign against...
bornagain77 (Leaving aside Seversky's disingenuous attempt to, once again, equate science itself with his philosophy of atheistic materialism), Seversky protests that,... – Another shot in the campaign against...
Hanks I can see how a channel that warns of potentially damaging heat could be advantageous from an evolutionary perspective. First... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
polistra Acquired pleasurable tolerance is the more interesting purpose. This one receptor, with its feedback circuit, helps us to eat and... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
AaronS1978 I absolutely love it. I eat food that melts through cement Although I’d like to point out that the heat... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
Seversky Martin_r/3 Why Materialism Needs Ape Ancestors i posted the following before, but let me remind you again…. not only ape... – Science Uprising 8: Why materialism needs...
Seversky I can see how a channel that warns of potentially damaging heat could be advantageous from an evolutionary perspective. What... – Nobel Prize Medicine win exchanges evolution...
Seversky I can just imagine a Neanderthal dropping in to his local convenience cave for a pack of twenty Dunghill. Maybe... – Horrors! Our Stone Age ancestors… SMOKED!!
Seversky Maybe we should just tear down all the monuments to celebrities, past and present, as all of them will have... – Classifier of life forms Linnaeus gets...
Seversky Bornagain77/8 As usual, Chuck Darwin is not telling the full story. Carrol was indeed dishonest in the debate in that... – Another shot in the campaign against...
EDTA >"and thereby return religion to its rightful realm–not as the secular interpreter of the biological minutiae of our physical existence,... – A 2010 Oxford U Press book...