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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Christopher E. Cosans, Civil War, Darwinism, Edward Drinker Cope, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary anthropology, Henrika Kuklik, James Moore, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Josiah Clark Nott, Kyla Schuller, Lamarckian theory, Livia Gershon, Louis Agassiz, Peter Bowler, Racism, Rupert Sheldrake, Rutgers University, Samuel George Morton, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Graham, women’s suffrage, Yoav Soen}

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

_{Michael Flannery
November 23, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, Galen, ideology, intelligent evolution, Joseph Hooker, medicine, Overruling Intelligence, phlogiston, physical chemistry, Quarterly Review, Science, The Malay Archipelago, X Club}

What We Can Learn from Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
November 11, 2020

Evolution

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We hear a lot of talk these days about “following the science.” But science rarely speaks with one unified voice. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", A. P. Mead, Alfred Russel Wallace, At the Edge of History, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, evolution, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, M. R. A. Chance, meaning, natural selection, Pithecanthropus, purpose, The World of Life, William Irwin Thompson}

When Alfred Russel Wallace Spoke to Me

_{Michael Flannery
September 9, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind” to take in what Wallace had to tell me. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 12, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Geology
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Charles Darwin, Darwin Industry, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theism, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolutionary theory, Geological Society of America, intelligent evolution, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Geology, National Academy of Sciences, natural selection, scientific community, theistic evolution}

James Dwight Dana: Falsely Claimed Darwinist

_{Michael Flannery
July 12, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology

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When it comes to claims of the “nearly unanimous” acceptance of Darwinian evolution, mere assertion cannot stand as fact. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 10, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, BioLogos, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Civil War, Darwinian theism, development, evolution, intelligent evolution, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, positivism, progressivism, scientism, St. George Mivart, theism, theistic evolution, theology, Yale University}

Theistic Evolution: The Case of Theodore Munger

_{Michael Flannery
July 10, 2020

Faith & Science

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In an extensive essay, Munger’s purpose was to show that evolution not only poses no threat to Christian faith but can confirm it Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christopher E. Cosans, Europe, Harvard University, James Dwight Dana, Joseph Barnard Davis, Louis Agassiz, Museum of Comparative Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Paul Broca, Racism, religion, Samuel George Morton, Stanford University, The Descent of Man}

Louis Agassiz: Some Additional Thoughts

_{Michael Flannery
May 14, 2020

Evolution

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Despite the significance of Agassiz’s scientific accomplishments, his heavy historical baggage cannot be lightly discarded or ignored. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 4, 2020

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Auguste Comte, biological systems, cryo-electron microscopy, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Hilary Putnam, history of id, intelligent design, John C. Eccles, logical positivism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Polanyi, modeling, molecular biology, Neo-Darwinism, Pajaro Dunes, Phillip E. Johnson, scientific reductionism, Vienna Circle}

What Precipitated the Intelligent Design Movement?

_{Michael Flannery
March 4, 2020

Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Here are some thoughts prompted by a rather curious question posed to me in an email, namely, “What were the findings that most helped ID since the turn of the millennium?” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 3, 2020

Categories
Ethics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, aesthetics, Cambridge University, Duke University, E.O. Wilson, Freeman Dyson, intelligent design, miracles, New York Times, pseudoscience, scientists, Signature in the Cell, telepathy, The New York Review of Books, The Scientist as Rebel, Wendell Berry}

Remembering Freeman Dyson and the Enduring Lesson of “Dyson’s Hypothesis”

_{Michael Flannery
March 3, 2020

Ethics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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Dyson points out that the highly improbable is actually quite probable by invoking “Littlewood’s law of miracles.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 14, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, African Americans, Appomattox Court House, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, Christopher Cosans, Civil War, craniometrics, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, evolution, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, functionalist evolution, Giovanni Camardi, Hottentot, John Hedley Brooke, Joseph Barnard Davis, Malayan, Michael Denton, natural selection, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Paul Broca, Racism, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, structuralist evolution, The Descent of Man, The Reader, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

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

_{Michael Flannery
January 14, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

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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
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Dickson White, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, City University of New York, Cornell University, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harry Bruinius, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Leo Strauss, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›