falsifiability

^{George Gilder
August 5, 2013
Economics}

Surprise and Creativity

_{George Gilder
August 5, 2013
Economics}

Why in the world do we need yet another “new” economics? Jamming the libraries and the bookstores of the world are avatars of what must be every variation on the great themes of market and managerial economics. Scores of Nobel Prizes have been awarded for various nugatory refinements of the prevailing ideas. All these schemes, however, fail to answer the Read More ›

Chemist or scientist in rubber gloves changing a column on high performance liquid chromatography HPLC for separation organic compounds. Analytical chemistry laboratory. Analyzing process.

^{Casey Luskin
September 8, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design (ID) Has Scientific Merit Because it Uses the Scientific Method to Make its Claims and Infers Design by Testing its Positive Predictions

_{Casey Luskin
September 8, 2008
Intelligent Design}

“In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the system is known by experience or observation, intelligent design or engineering played a role [in] the origin of the system.”1 Stephen C. Meyer (Ph.D. Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University) & Scott Minnich (Professor of Microbiology, University of Idaho). Intelligent design (ID) has scientific merit because it uses the scientific Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
November 13, 2005
Intelligent Design}

The Scientific Status of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
November 13, 2005
Intelligent Design}

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 ›

^{The Center for Science and Culture
July 1, 2005
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design is Falsifiable

_{The Center for Science and Culture
July 1, 2005
Intelligent Design}

There is a belief among media commentators that intelligent design is unscientific because it is unfalsifiable or untestable: no empirical evidence can count against it. Though common, this charge is demonstrably false. Of course there’s no way to falsify a mere assertion that a cosmic designer exists. This much we are agreed on. But contemporary design arguments focus not on such vague claims, but on detectible evidence for design in the natural world. Therefore, the design arguments currently in play are falsifiable. Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
January 1, 2000
Intelligent Design}

The Demarcation of Science and Religion

_{Stephen C. Meyer
January 1, 2000
Intelligent Design}

What is science? What is religion? How do the two intersect? Historians of science address these questions by analyzing how the scientific and religious beliefs of particular scientists or cultures have interacted at specific times. Philosophers of science and religion, however, have sought to characterize the relationship between them in more general terms. Their endeavor has required defining science and religion in order to distinguish or "demarcate" them from each other by clear and objective criteria. During modern times, theologians and philosophers of science have attempted to make categorical demarcations between science and religion on various definitional grounds. Read More ›

3D illustration Virus DNA molecule, structure. Concept destroyed code human genome. Damage DNA molecule. Helix consisting particle, dots. DNA destruction due to gene mutation or experiment

^{Michael J. Behe
January 12, 1985
Intelligent Design}

Selected Journal Articles by Michael Behe

_{Michael J. Behe
January 12, 1985
Intelligent Design}

Getting There First: An Evolutionary Rate Advantage for Adaptive Loss-of-Function Mutations Michael J. Behe Biological Information: New Perspectives, edited by R. J. Marks II, M. J. Behe, W. A. Dembski, and B. L. Gordon. World Scientific Publishing, Hong Kong, 450-473. Abstract: Over the course of evolution organisms have adapted to their environments by mutating to gain new functions or to Read More ›