A Naturalistic Fairy Tale–Part I

Once upon a time, long, long ago, before time, there was nothing.  Which as all scientists know, nothing is not really nothing.  Just a wee little empty void, but not truly empty.  The void did fluctuate before time existed.  It did it anyway…it found a way to fluctuate even though time didn’t exist.  And from [...]

On Labels

Many people seem to think that just by applying a label to something, it is true and factual.  But the reality is, all you have done is apply a mental representation and your own bias.  Take for example a recent discussion regarding the ‘real-world’ benefits of evolution to society.
Similar to genetic algorithms, engineers can use [...]

Intelligent Design, Naturalistic Evolution, and Philosophical Underpinnings

It often seems to me that scientists lose track of the fact that their research methods and interpretation of results are based on philosophical assumptions.  Now, to be fair, sometimes I have seen this awareness, but oftentimes it is absent.
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is [...]

Does Intelligent Design Make Testable Predictions?

A recent commenter wrote:
An inference is useful in so much as it makes a prediction that can be tested. If the prediction succeeds, we then have some validating evdence. If the prediction fails, we then have some invalidating evidence. Once an inference is very strongly supported by a wide and diverse range of validating evidence, [...]

On Intelligent Design

Intelligent design is a theory that purports that what we see in the universe, world, and nature, is the product of design.  Atheists purport that everything that we see “just happened.”  They think that in “the begining, there was a singularity, that moved in and out of existence.  Time didn’t exists then.  Then, the singularity [...]