Author: Bruce Chapman

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
July 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Bible, Clarence Darrow, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Dayton, Field Museum of Natural History, Inherit the Wind, Jerome Lawrence, Melvyn Douglas, mental hospitals, mental illness, On the Origin of Species, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Proverbs, Robert E. Lee, Spencer Tracy, Tennessee, William Jennings Bryan}

Scopes and History: A Personal Reminiscence

_{Bruce Chapman
July 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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In 1956 my father, a devout Darwinian who had failed to persuade me by taking me to the esteemed Field Museum in Chicago, treated me to a theater offering. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Associated Press, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Christianity, Curia, elitism, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Evangelical Catholicism, evolution, George Weigel, intelligent design, materialism, media, National Review, newspapers, Pontifical Council on Culture, Pope Francis, religion, Roman Catholic, secularism, sexual misbehavior, Templeton Foundation, Vatican City, young people}

Pope Francis, Evolution, and the Curia

_{Bruce Chapman
April 21, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is “just another office down the street,” as one Vatican insider told me. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
January 9, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Science Reporting
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, A Meaningful World, abstraction, Benjamin Wiker, cosmos, culture, earth, evolution, genius, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Islam, Jesus Christ, Jonathan Witt, materialism, media, nature, Pope Benedict XVI, reality, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, theology, unreason}

Pope Benedict on Intelligent Design and the Dangers of Darwinian Materialism

_{Bruce Chapman
January 9, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Science Reporting, Scientific Reasoning

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“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution,” he said. “Each of us is the result of a thought of God.” Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
September 15, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Discovery Institute, Genesee, Gonzaga University, Idaho, intelligent design, Pacific Northwest, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, think tank, Washington State}

Barnyard Biology Is a Hit in Idaho

_{Bruce Chapman
September 15, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Country people obviously know something about biology, and to run a wheatland farm these days also requires executive skills. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
August 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Discovery Institute, friendship, government, gratitude, leadership, mentoring, policy, Politics, senators, Steven Buri, U.S. Senate}

Remembering Senator Slade Gorton

_{Bruce Chapman
August 20, 2020

Bioethics, Science Reporting

1}

Some will submit that his kind are gone, but I know that they are still around, because he helped get them there. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
September 17, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, anthropology, California, climate change, conservatives, Darwinian theory, dating, evolution, George Gilder, group selection, Indiana University, Left, men, Wall Street Journal, weather, women}

An Evolutionary Guide to Paying on Dates

_{Bruce Chapman
September 17, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution

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It must be hard for young daters to follow. It’s an even bigger challenge to square with Darwin’s theory. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
September 13, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Africa, Berlin, Charles Darwin, concentration camp, Darwinists, First World War, From Darwin to Hitler, genocide, Germany, history, John West, New York Times, Racism, Richard Weikart, The Biology of the Second Reich}

On Biology of the Second Reich, New York Times Misses the Elephant in the Room

_{Bruce Chapman
September 13, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Yes, yes, Timesmen. But where did German racist science get its justification? Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
May 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, artificial intelligence, athens, Big Data, C.S. Lewis, Darwinism, Dataism, democracy, Homo Deus, Israel, Marxism, Politics, privacy, religion, scientism, Socrates, Yuval Noah Harari}

From Darwinism to Dataism: Will We Lose Democracy to Techno-Religion?

_{Bruce Chapman
May 26, 2018

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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When tyranny comes it often is introduced as some improvement, or as the correction of some perceived problem. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
May 22, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Philosophy
Political Science
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Bruce Chapman, Columbia University, culture, Darwinian theory, economics, Ernst Haeckel, Germany, gnosticism, government, Heritage Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Politicians, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson}

Darwin, Marx, and Something Called Political “Science”

_{Bruce Chapman
May 22, 2018

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Philosophy, Political Science

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A central progressive theme was historicism, crediting history almost exclusively with the development of culture. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
August 25, 2017

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Aquinas and Evolution, Catholicism and Evolution, Father Michael Chaberek, Georgetown University, intelligent design, logos, Neo-Darwinism, Roman Catholic, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

New Book Replies to Modern Thomists Who Would Make Peace with Evolution

_{Bruce Chapman
August 25, 2017

Faith & Science

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There are several reasons that some theists remain reluctant to dispute the Darwinian account of life’s origins — and man’s origins. Read More ›