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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Some comments on "ID is just disguised creationism"

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1) I don't know if ID is vaguer that C, it's just a weaker claim. It could turn out that ID is supportable by scientific evidence wh...
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Friday, December 23, 2005

The history of intelligent design

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I am concerned about the use of the history of intelligent design in the judge's decision. I have not read Creationism's Trojan Hors...
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A key clarification in the ID debate

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I think it's important to note that the Dover school board went far beyond even what the Discovery Institute was prepared to advocate. I...
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On design

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This is an interesting article on the use of the design debate in school.
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Thursday, December 22, 2005

Lippard links to the decision text

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This entry on Jim's blog links to the text of the Kitzmiller decision. If you want to follow h is advice and read the whole decision, th...
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A Bayesian argument against atheism

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Since I don't believe there are any ways of getting objective antecedent probabilities, I guess I have to be counted among the skeptics ...
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Angus Menuge on Dover

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Victor, I did a radio interview on this for the LC-MS radio channel My main concerns are that Judge Jones uses throughout an argument from ...
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Clarification for Jim Lippard

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What I was talking about was strong forms of methodological naturalism, the kind of MN that is supported by Hume's essay on miracles. Yo...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

From the beginning of my paper on miracles

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Bertrand Russell was reportedly once asked what he would say to God if he were to find himself confronted by the Almighty about why he had n...
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Could there be scientific evidence for the existence of a ghost? or God?

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Amstar: As for your ghost bites, absence of any evidence what is wrong with saying "We don't know what happened”?   So if there wer...
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Reply to amstar

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The question of whether there is evidence of a designer is hotly debated. There are some people who think there is evidence of a designer bu...
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Reply to Greg

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You seem eager to include the supernatural into science. Isn't it incumbent upon you to define what you think the term supernatural mean...
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On defining the supernatural

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Is everything that doesn't have a location in space and time supernatural? If so, that makes the number two supernatural. Does everythin...
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J P Holding on the trilemma

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The irrepressible J. P. Holding defends the trilemma.

Ray Schneider of Spare Oom on ID

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Ray Schneider, of the newsgroup Spare Oom that I subscribe to, has some comments about the ID controversy: This morning's paper in Harri...
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DI replies to the Dover Decision

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Evangellical Outpost on methodological naturalism

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There are 87 comments on this!
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Further notes on "the supernatural"' and testability

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In the Elijah case the result came out positive. Of course we can ask whether it happened that way. And we can ask what would happen if we t...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Are supernatural claims testable? You bet

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Anonymous: No one has ever been able to devise a test that provides evidence that there is such a thing as the supernatural. Do you know of ...
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On ID and testability

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I am troubled by the claim that all intelligent design claims are untestable. Look, if I could believe that Elvis was raised from the dead ...
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I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
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