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Einstein's Gulf: Can Evolution Cross it? - Sep 1, 2000
/article/einsteins-gulf-can-evolution-cross-itJohn W. Oller, Jr., Ph.D. - Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists of all time, described the "gulf" that logically separates the concrete world of hard objects on the one hand from the abstract world of ideas on the other. He wrote: We have the habit...
The Mere Consistency of Signs and Creation - May 1, 1997
/article/mere-consistency-signs-creationJohn W. Oller, Jr., Ph.D. - Signs are objects, actions, or marks standing for things besides themselves as in figure 1. Signs in ordinary experience are (1) sensory, (2) motoric, and (3) linguistic. To the extent signs are consistent with what they are about, they are...
A Theory in Crisis - Jun 1, 1988
/article/theory-crisisJohn W. Oller, Jr., Ph.D. - The 1986 book by Michael Denton, "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis," is a secular critique of orthodox Darwinism. It is thoughtful, logical, empirical and well-written. Denton ...
Not According to Hoyle - Dec 1, 1984
/article/not-according-hoyleJohn W. Oller, Jr., Ph.D. - No, not poker, and not Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769), the famed authority on card games and chess. Darwinism is the game and Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-present), the distinguished astronomer, is the odds maker. He says, no. Just plain no....
C.S. Peirce's "Neglected Argument" - Mar 1, 1984
/article/cs-peirces-neglected-argumentJohn W. Oller, Jr., Ph.D. - In 1908, Charles Sanders Peirce, the recognized father of America's only distinctive philosophy, namely pragmatism, and the mentor of William James and John Dewey, published an argument entitled "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of...
Learning and Evolution - Oct 1, 1982
/article/learning-evolutionJohn W. Oller, Jr., Ph.D. - A key problem for evolutionists is to find a mechanism that can bring "order from noise." 1 What is needed is a natural process producing a chain of necessary increases in order leading from chaotic conditions to an environment capable...
Words: Genetic and Linguistic Problems for Evolution - Feb 1, 1981
/article/words-genetic-linguistic-problems-for-evolutionJohn W. Oller, Jr., Ph.D. - In 1934, just before his death, the eminent Russian psychologist, Lev S. Vygotsky, 1 concluded his book on Thought and Language with a quotation from Faust which insisted that, "In the...