Evolution in the related senses of transformism, Darwinism, Neo-Darwinism, and evolutionism
Darwin initiated a rhetorical strategy of minimizing the difference between species — or what is the same thing, of maximizing the difficulties of delineating one species from another. He made the species concept suspect, although he continued to use it where it suited him. The implication was that larger taxonomic categories were also suspect, and […]
The Darwinian evolution paradigm is based on the evolution paradigm and forms a “bundle of theories” that are contrary to the special creation paradigm. It concerns the origin and development of organic life on earth. 1. Science and History The subject of natural history is primarily natural science and secondarily history. The laws and generalizations
The main problem with evolution is not that it has the wrong history but that for evolution history is everything. That’s everything including the laws of nature, philosophy, religion, God, literally everything. The one law of evolution is that everything evolves. There is no being, only becoming; there is nothing fixed, only change. But surely they
The word “creation” in theological and philosophical circles means (1) “creation from nothing”, that is, the transcendent and self-existing God producing other entities without starting from something pre-existing. However, that is not the only meaning of “creation” in the Bible or common usage. The other meaning is (2) making something from something, particularly, making something more
Recall that mathematical induction has two requirements: a base case and an inductive step. Show that a statement is true for x=1 and show that if it is true for x=n, then it is true for x=n+1. The induction follows as a falling series of dominoes. Evolutionists try to do something similar. They show that evolution is true in
Evolution Evolution in Stanford Encyclopedia National Center for Science Education Society for the Study of Evolution Talk.Origins Archive Understanding Evolution Intelligent Design Access Research Network Discovery Institute Intelligent Design Network Origins Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity Progressive Creation God and Science Reasons to Believe Special Creation Answers in Genesis Creation on the Web Creation
Elliott Sober is a professor of philosophy who has written in support of evolutionary biology. I’m going through his book “Evidence and Evolution.” Sober argues for the superiority of the likelihood approach. The “law if likelihood” states that evidence E favors hypothesis H1 over H2 if and only if the probability of E given H1
Mortimer J. Adler’s “Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth” is very stimulating, though we would disagree on some points. One point that needs qualification is his unqualified endorsement of Augustine’s principle that religion must always accord with the science of the day. He doesn’t define science here perhaps because
Naturalism assumes that what is true in local places or times must be true for all places and times — after all, isn’t that Occam’s razor? But it does not follow. For example, the earth seems flat in each locality but globally it is not. In mathematics there are many examples where what is locally
One thing I’ve noticed with evolutionists is the level of what I call “explanation anxiety” is high. That is, they must have an explanation for everything. If something is observed, they need an explanation for it and they need it now. They can’t wait. They must know. A few minor things can be unexplained for a
