Month: September 2023
Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”
When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings.
A Paradigm Crisis for Physicalism
This crisis has converged with two other currents of change with the surprising result that alternatives to physicalism are now taken seriously.
Paper Digest: Application of Animal Forms in Auto Styling
The preeminence of design in nature and the utility of mimicking natural designs is a concept championed by the intelligent design community.
Fossil Friday: Ichthyosaur Birth, Another Evolutionist Just-So Story Falls Apart
This is not how good science is supposed to work but is rather typical for pseudoscience that shields itself against empirical falsification.
Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw
The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts.