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Confusion on Falsifiability Still Prevalent at Discovery Institute

2017/06/10 Wesley R. Elsberry 1 Comment contrived dualism, david klinghoffer, kitzmiller v. dover area school district, mclean v. arkansas

Yes, this is another “dog bites man” story, but it is probably worth memorializing that various and sundry “intelligent design”

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Antievolution Law and Politics Philosophy 

Good Reason: A Ouija Board?

2011/07/07 Wesley R. Elsberry

There’s an essay by Randal Rauser at “Christian Post” offering what’s termed a rebuttal to a criticism of an earlier

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The Synthese Editors-in-Chief Respond to a Petition

2011/05/14 Wesley R. Elsberry

The main petition regarding the Synthese disclaimer published in the January, 2011 issue was signed by 470 academics. It asked

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Antievolution Law and Politics Philosophy 

Questions, Francis Beckwith, and a Tangible Absence of Answers

2011/05/072011/05/07 Wesley R. Elsberry

Yes, this is yet another bit related to the Synthese flap. One of the issues still outstanding is whether the

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Antievolution Philosophy 

Petition for Synthese to Retract the Disclaimer

2011/04/27 Wesley R. Elsberry

Just in case there’s any academics who haven’t gotten the word yet, there’s a petition going requesting four things of

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Antievolution Law and Politics Philosophy 

Religious Antievolutionists and Civility: Paul Giem

2011/04/252011/04/26 Wesley R. Elsberry

Professor Paul Giem, M.D., of Loma Linda University has a batch of video lectures online. One of them has him

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Antievolution Philosophy 

Some of My Best Friends Are Authors…

2011/04/23 Wesley R. Elsberry

Over at New APPS, the comments continue. Jeff Shallit, my co-author on the paper in Synthese, weighed in with a

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Antievolution Philosophy 

“New APPS” and Synthese Comments

2011/04/22 Wesley R. Elsberry

Mark Lance makes an excellent point over at “New APPS” concerning the Synthese disclaimer flap. I think it deserves more

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Antievolution Philosophy 

The Synthese Editors-in-Chief Strike Back

2011/04/21 Wesley R. Elsberry

The Synthese Editors-in-Chief issued a joint statement today about the disclaimer in the special issue. The closest approach to an

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Antievolution Philosophy 

Is the Synthese Thing Just Business as Usual?

2011/04/19 Wesley R. Elsberry

Chris Pincock at “Honest Toil” has a different take on the Synthese disclaimer issue. Pincock makes the argument that since

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Antievolution Law and Politics Philosophy 

Synthese Shenanigans

2011/04/182011/04/18 Wesley R. Elsberry

I had a co-authored paper published in the philosophy journal, Synthese. It appeared online back in 2009 and then in

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Antievolution Philosophy Science 

Grab the PDFs — Ends 12/31

2010/12/30 Wesley R. Elsberry

The Synthese special issue on “Evolution and Its Rivals” allows downloads of the full PDFs for all the articles, but

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Computation Philosophy 

The Turing Test as Gender Discrimination

2010/09/252010/09/25 Wesley R. Elsberry

I jumped into discussion of a comment by Greg Laden on Facebook that touched on the Turing test. There was

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Concern Trolling at the Mansfield News-Journal

2010/01/16 Wesley R. Elsberry

A perfectly reasonable letter to the editor from Walter Kania elicited a response from Andrew Ricks with all the hallmarks

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Antievolution Education Law and Politics Philosophy 

IDCs Accept Common Descent? News to Me

2009/12/28 Wesley R. Elsberry

A philosophical look at evolution and creation by a newly-minted history Ph.D., Leslie Tomory, is titled The Shock and Awe

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Opderbeck and Dover, Round 3

2009/12/092009/12/22 Wesley R. Elsberry

This is a reply to a comment by David Opderbeck in this thread. Since David has consistently accused me of

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Opderbeck and Dover, Round 2

2009/12/01 Wesley R. Elsberry

I’m going to respond to a comment left by David Opderbeck to my previous post. [David Opderbeck:] Wesley, I have

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Out of the Ashes?

2009/11/022009/11/02 Wesley R. Elsberry

Philip Clayton at “Religion Dispatches” has a post up about evolution/creationism issues and the yin/yang of the classes of antievolutionists

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Philosophy Science 

Another Look at Law and Theory

2009/07/03 Wesley R. Elsberry terminology

There’s a lot of philosophical discussion about what, precisely, constitutes a law or a theory in scientific practice. There’s also

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Antievolution Philosophy 

Specified Complexity Relies Upon Implicit Design Conjectures

2009/06/052009/06/05 Wesley R. Elsberry specified complexity, William Demsbki

William Dembski’s No Free Lunch contains the following passage: The presumption here is that if a subject S can figure

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