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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Brooklyn College, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, David Berlinski, David Quammen, E.O. Wilson, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, Janet Browne, Jews, Julian Huxley, Library of Congress, Oliver Cromwell, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, University of Chicago, Winston Churchill}

Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution”

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 24, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, David Klinghoffer, David Quammen, Edinburgh, evolution, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harriet Martineau, John Murray, materialists, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Paul Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, rhetoric, The Descent of Man, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, transmutation}

Darwin’s Origin of Species — Some Historical Reflections 160 Years Later

_{Michael Flannery
November 24, 2019

Evolution

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Surely the “iconic” status of Darwin’s book could never have been predicted by either the author or his publisher. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 20, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Abrahamic religions, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, brain, Charles Darwin, Corinthians, Darwinism (book), Edinburgh, Ernst Haeckel, frenemies, Genesis, George Romanes, Harvard University, historiography, human consciousness, Jacques Barzun, John Lukacs, Man’s Place in the Universe, materialism, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, Notebook C, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Psalms, Romans, Scripture, Social Environment and Moral Progress, teleology, The American Scholar, The Wedge of Truth, The World of Life}

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

_{Michael Flannery
November 20, 2019

Evolution, Faith & Science

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We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Deborah Blum, demons, Duke of Argyll, Ernst Mayr, First Cause, Freeman Dyson, Ghost Hunters, Harvard University, John Magens Mello, Jonathan Wells, magicians, materialists, Nature's Prophet, spiritualism, Summa Theologica, T.H. Huxley, The Scientist as Rebel, The Screwtape Letters, The World of Life, Thomas Aquinas}

Why Nature’s Prophet Had to be Written

_{Michael Flannery
November 19, 2019

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Wallace’s greatest “heresy” was to become, after his co-discovery of natural selection, “godfather” of the modern theory of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 5, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Darwinian paradigm, Discovery Institute, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Reductionism, Veritas Forum, William A. Dembski}

Phillip E. Johnson: Awaking a Sleeping Giant

_{Michael Flannery
November 5, 2019

Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Part of his brilliance was in recognizing that an appropriate challenge to the reductionisms of our age required a thoroughly multidisciplinary approach. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 29, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited}

Darwinism: Past, Present, and Future

_{Michael Flannery
October 29, 2019

Evolution

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Amidst all this chest thumping over neo-Darwinian certainties, doubts are unmistakably on the rise. Read More ›

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Michael Flannery

Date
May 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, anthropocentrism, Associated Press, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, history, John Lukacs, Owen Barfield, Roman Catholic, St. Paul, Western civilization}

Farewell to John Lukacs: A Great Historian, and an Unequivocal Darwin Doubter

_{Michael Flannery
May 7, 2019

Evolution

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Unlike many of his academic colleagues, Lukacs did not stand in awe and wonder of Charles Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 14, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell}

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

_{Michael Flannery
August 14, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin's principal failing in developing his theory. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 8, 2018

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

Discovering Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
August 8, 2018

Intelligent Design

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For those who wish to caricature the theory of intelligent design, Wallace becomes a very inconvenient historical figure. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 7, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, agent, causation, common descent, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, John West, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Neoplatonism, principle of utility, relic principle, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Edge of Evolution, The World of Life, theology}

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

_{Michael Flannery
August 7, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Wallace was the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. He later broke with Darwin over the question of teleology. Read More ›