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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, evolution, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, meaning, natural selection, purpose, The World of Life}

A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
October 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Correcting a Cartoon Version of Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
October 2, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Was Darwin a Nazi? Of course not. But did his ideas form a causal nexus via Galton to ideas that would be integrated into Nazi policy? Yes. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day in America, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Discovery Institute Press, history, intelligent design, John West, Michael Behe, natural selection, Phillip E. Johnson, teleology, The World of Life, Traipsing Into Evolution, University of Alabama, William Dembksi}

How I “Discovered” Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
September 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I certainly wouldn’t have recognized his full significance if I had not already been introduced to ID by reading Johnson, Behe, and Dembski. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, teleology, teleonomy, The World of Life, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
September 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, eugenics, evolution, forced sterilization, From Darwin to Hitler, Germany, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Heidelberg University, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Jacques Barzun, James Moore, Janet Browne, Joseph Stalin, New Scientist, On the Origin of Species, Paul Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Racism, Richard Weikart, Slate, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Malthus, United States, Victorian England}

Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
January 12, 2023

Evolution, Science

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The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, common descent, Copernican principle, fleas, Human Zoos, Jacques Barzun, John West, London, pandemic, plague, Plato, Racism, rats, scientism, Thomas Henry Huxley, Werner Heisenberg, X Club}

Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley

_{Michael Flannery
September 14, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Cornelius Hunter, Darwin’s God, Edinburgh, evolutionary theory, Janet Browne, John Murray, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, neo-Darwinian synthesis, positivism, theology}

Devil’s Chaplain: Evolution as a “Theological Research Program”

_{Michael Flannery
September 10, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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This stands the standard historiography and received wisdom concerning the development of modern evolutionary theory on its head. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, African Americans, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, Civil War, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, evolution, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, John Hedley Brooke, Michael Denton, natural selection, Paul Broca, Racism, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts

_{Michael Flannery
July 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 14, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, culture, Darwinian theory, gender, history, James Moore, morality, prejudices, Racism, Richard Owen, The College Fix, The Descent of Man, University of Sheffield, women}

Charles Darwin: Racist Spokesman for Anglo-Male Superiority?

_{Michael Flannery
July 14, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The University of Sheffield’s teaching and research handbook has declared Charles Darwin a “racist.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 13, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, anthropologists, Civil War, colonialism, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, genius, genocide, James Moore, Paul Johnson, Princeton University, Racism, Science (journal), slavery, textbooks, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, women}

Congratulations to Science Magazine for an Honest Portrayal of Darwin’s Descent of Man

_{Michael Flannery
July 13, 2021

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

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On the book’s 150th anniversary, a prestigious journal is catching up with Darwin critics. Read More ›