Intelligent Design 1
A given organelle is at its most basic structure and any missing part will cause the structure to cease to function.
What is Irreducible Complexity?
In 1831, this scientist went on a five year expedition for the British Empire and spent five weeks in the Galapagos Islands.
What is Charles Darwin?
This discipline provides Theology the terminology necessary to explain Doctrine.
What is Philosophy?
This philosopher is known as the Father of Logic.
What is Aristotle?
This philosopher is known as the Father of Western Philosophy.
What is Socrates?
The molecular engine that drives bacteria through liquid; composed of 40 different proteins.
What is the Bacterial Flagellum Motor?
The fundamental molecule carrying genetic instructions for an organism's development, functioning, and reproduction.
What is DNA?
The Latin phrase that translates to "I think, therefore I am".
What is Cogito, Ergo Sum?
This philosopher is the founder of the Academy in Athens.
What is Plato?
This philosopher is the author of the Methodic Doubt.
What is René Descartes?
The mechanism of evolution where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is Natural Selection?
Of the two features proposed by William Dembski, this feature suggest something is designed because it is unlikely to be found in nature.
What is Improbability?
The discipline in the process of becoming or of formation.
What is In fieri?
The philosophical knowledge once achieved is unchangeable and timeless and to this extent stands outside of history.
What is In facto esse?
This occurs when you claim something is true solely because an authority figure said it, or false because the person isn't an authority.
What is the Fallacy of Authority (Argument from Authority)?
Of the two features proposed by William Dembski, this factor suggests something is designed because there is a recognizable pattern in the object.
What is Specification?
Proposed by Dean Kenyon, this theory suggests that life may have commenced because of the attraction between its chemical parts.
What is Biochemical Predestination (Chemical Evolution)?
The formula that states that every thing is the same as itself.
What is the Law of Identity?
The formula that suggests that any proposition must be either true or false.
What is the Law of Excluded Middle?
The formula that states two things cannot be both true and not true at the same time and in the same sense.
What is the Law of Non-Contradiction?
The argument that suggests a molecular machine can borrow certain parts from other complex systems to account for its complexity.
What is the Co-option Theory?
The term used to describe the current scientific convention that only natural causes can be used to explain the world.
What is Methodological Naturalism?
This is a formal error in "if-then" reasoning; occurs when you see the result and assume that the specific cause you were thinking of must be responsible.
What is Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent?
This occurs when you claim that event A correlates to event B because they happened around the same time, without actually proving a link.
What is Fallacy of False Cause?
This is the mistake of assuming that what is true for the parts must be true for the whole.
What is the Fallacy of Composition?