In hmolscience, sudden emergence, or “spontaneous emergence”, tends to be an ontic opening and or god of the gaps like term employed by theists, closet theists, and or middle grounders, etc., to figure in metaphysical, spiritual, and or supernatural arguments into the scheme of reductionist physics.
Quotes
The following are related quotes:
“A draft of Pandas and People’s sequel, The Design of Life, had been previewed during Dover’s trial (2005). Just as Foundation for Thought and Ethics substituted the word ‘creationism’ with ‘intelligent design’—following Edwards vs Aguillard (1987) —throughout versions of Pandas, this edition substituted ‘sudden emergence’ for ‘intelligent design’. This prompted Rothschild to ask Michael Behe during cross-examination, ‘will we be back in a couple of years for the ‘sudden emergence’ trail.”
— Lauri Lebo (2008), The Devil in Dover [1]
“The concept of ‘emergence’ is a crypto-metaphysical concept pretending to offer physical explanations, at once allowing and accounting for gaps in the latter through reference to ‘complexity’.”
— Nathan Brown (2011), “Introduction” to To Be Done With Life conference [2]
References
1. Lebo, Lauri. (2008). The Devil in Dover: an Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America (pg. 210). The New Press, 2013.
2. Brown, Nathan. (2011). “Introduction” (ΡΊ), WordPress, DoneWithLife.mi2.hr.
