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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
November 17, 2017

Categories
Critique and Response
Tagged
, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Darwin's Doubt, explanatory power, faith and science, god of the gaps, response to criticism, Signature in the Cell}

Denying the Signature

_{Stephen C. Meyer

November 17, 2017

Critique and Response}

Philosophers Robert Bishop and Robert O'Connor offer a cleverly titled joint review of Darwin's Doubt and Signature in the Cell. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
November 13, 2005

Categories
Research and Analysis
Tagged
, defining science, defining terms, demarcation problem, explanatory power, Featured Articles, historical sciences, philosophy of science, pseudoscience, scientific method}

The Scientific Status of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer

November 13, 2005

Research and Analysis}

Underlying Darwin's repudiation of creationist legitimacy lay an entirely different conception of science than had prevailed among earlier naturalists. Darwin's attacks on his creationist and idealist opponents in part expressed and in part established an emerging positivistic "episteme" in which the mere mention of unverifiable "acts of Divine will" or "the plan of creation" would increasingly serve to disqualify theories from consideration as science qua science. Read More ›