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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, history of id, intelligent design, logical positivism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Polanyi, molecular biology, Neo-Darwinism, Pajaro Dunes, Phillip E. Johnson, scientific reductionism}

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, 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, 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
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, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Cornell University, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, 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 ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Brooklyn College, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, David Berlinski, E.O. Wilson, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, Janet Browne, Jews, Julian Huxley, Library of Congress, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, 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
Tagged
, __edited, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, David Klinghoffer, 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, 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, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, brain, Charles Darwin, Edinburgh, Ernst Haeckel, Genesis, Harvard University, historiography, human consciousness, Jacques Barzun, Man’s Place in the Universe, materialism, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Psalms, Romans, Scripture, teleology, 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, demons, Duke of Argyll, Ernst Mayr, First Cause, Freeman Dyson, Harvard University, Jonathan Wells, materialists, Nature's Prophet, spiritualism, Summa Theologica, T.H. Huxley, 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
Tagged
, __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 ›