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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 21, 2012

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
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, __k-review}

The Magician’s Twin Provides a Tour de Force Exploration of C.S. Lewis and His Legacy

_{Michael Flannery
September 21, 2012

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The contributors to this volume are to be commended for offering -- even amplifying -- this prophetic voice to a new generation. The service they perform has never been more important than now. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 14, 2012

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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, __k-review, The Privileged Planet}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Down-to-Earth Astrobiology

_{Michael Flannery
September 14, 2012

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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For Wallace the conditions required for life (much less the complex diversity of life found on earth) were so many that they make the likelihood of extraterrestrial life highly improbable. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 29, 2012

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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, __k-review, Views}

Hitler, Evolution and the Historical Context

_{Michael Flannery
August 29, 2012

Bioethics, Evolution

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Darwinian theory allowed a framework and easy fit into which Hitler's Nazis could cast their racial program as both scientific and even inexorable. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
June 26, 2012

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Darwin's Heretic (Alfred Wallace), history}

Don’t Mess with Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
June 26, 2012

Intelligent Design

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Why must Wallace suffer the insults of George Beccaloni? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
June 12, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Darwin's Heretic (Alfred Wallace)}

The Human Brain as an Argument for Intelligent Design

_{Michael Flannery
June 12, 2012

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Why develop speaking or extraordinary learning capacities or complex social units when sheer stealth or speed or agility would have sufficed? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
June 1, 2012

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, history}

What Darwin Would Say If He Could Speak to Us Today: Another Perspective

_{Michael Flannery
June 1, 2012

Evolution

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Darwin came to his ideas not by the evidence but by an a priori ideology that dictated methodological naturalism and philosophical materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 10, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, Darwin, history, law, science, Tennessee}

A New Book Poses the Question: At the Birth of Modern Science, Was Darwin Present — or AWOL?

_{Michael Flannery
April 10, 2012

Evolution

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In The Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura J. Snyder feels compelled to make the founders of modern science Darwin-friendly. Read More ›

Aerial view showcasing a dense collection of assorted books piled together in a chaotic arrangement

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 4, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
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, __nedited, Alvin Plantinga, defining evolution, defining terms, intelligent design, Jay Richards, nanotechnology, Normal Science, rhetorical strategies, Thomas Kuhn, Where the Conflict Really Lies}

What Textbooks Say about the “Randomness” at the Heart of Darwinian Theory

_{Michael Flannery
April 4, 2012

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Plantinga has decided that modern evolution is whatever he chooses to make it by citing his favored sources. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 21, 2012

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, evolution, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, law, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), natural theology, science, Stephen Meyer, William Paley}

A New Study of James Clerk Maxwell Attempts to Defend His Design Argument at the Expense of Intelligent Design

_{Michael Flannery
March 21, 2012

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Maxwell breathed new life into natural theology and helped in some measure to sustain the design argument in Victorian England. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 23, 2012

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin, Darwin's Heretic (Alfred Wallace), evolution, Jerry Coyne, origin of life, PNAS, Skeptico}

When Science Becomes Polemic: My Reply to Jerry Coyne’s Interview at Skeptiko

_{Michael Flannery
February 23, 2012

Evolution

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There appear to be only two possible reasons for Wallace's conspicuous absence in Jerry Coyne's book. Read More ›