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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Fleming, Alfred Russel Wallace, Archimedes, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, evolution, history, intelligent evolution, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, penicillin, R.H. Barfield, Sherrie Lyons, socialism, South America, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Kuhn, Victorians, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

_{Michael Flannery
August 2, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Wallace’s formulation of evolution was quite incompatible with Darwin’s. His theory might be called intelligent evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, An Elusive Victorian, Andrew Berry, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwinian, David Hume, evolution, history, John Duprétly, John Elof Boodin, John Herschel, John Tyndall, Martin Fichman, Max Horkheimer, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Overruling Intelligence, Paul Janet, Quarterly Review, scientism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, transmutation, William James, William Whewell, X Club}

The Outsider: Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

_{Michael Flannery
August 1, 2018

Evolution, History of Science

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As I asked in a previous post: Why is Alfred Russel Wallace today a comparatively little known figure next to Darwin? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 30, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, evolution, HMS Beagle, Island Life, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, Malay Archipelago, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Palms of the Amazon and Rio Negro, Robert Chambers, Samuel Stevens, Sarawak Law, Somerset Maugham, South America, The Malay Archipelago, Use, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Walter Henry Bates}

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

_{Michael Flannery
July 30, 2018

Botany, Evolution

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Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 27, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Christianity, élan vital, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Harvard University, Henri Bergson, idealism, John Elof Boodin, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, paleontology, pantheism, positivism, pragmatism, realism, Stephen Hawking, William James}

Who Was John Elof Boodin and Why Does He Matter?

_{Michael Flannery
July 27, 2018

Evolution, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Boodin’s view that science and metaphysics could mutually inform one another was full of promise. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 26, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Koestler, Binghamton University, biologic institute, Homo sapiens, John Elof Boodin, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, natural selection, neo-Darwinian synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Reductionism, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, teleology, vitalism}

Who Was Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Why Does He Matter?

_{Michael Flannery
July 26, 2018

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Bertalanffy’s systems-based approach continued under George Klir, and is carried on today by Dr. Richard Sternberg, who studied under Klir. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 25, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, anagenesis, anthropocentrism, cladogenesis, creationism, Darwinism, Ernst Mayr, Günter Wagner, Hilary Putnam, Julian Huxley, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, natural theology, neo-Darwinian synthesis, Peter Bowler, positivism, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vienna Circle, Werner Heisenberg}

The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: A Fable Told by Ernst Mayr

_{Michael Flannery
July 25, 2018

Evolution

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Mayr worked tirelessly to establish a synthesis bearing the unmistakable stamp of positivism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 4, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ann Gauger, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwin's Doubt, David Berlinski, David Premack, fossil record, intelligent evolution, J. Scott Turner, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Neo-Darwinism, Purpose and Desire, Quarterly Review of Biology, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Human Instinct, Thomas Nagel, Wendell Berry}

Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct

_{Michael Flannery
May 4, 2018

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, Edinburgh, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Herbert Spencer, history, James Moore, Linnean Society, Loren Eiseley, Plinian Society, Robert Brown, Robert Edmond Grant}

A.N. Wilson’s Charles Darwin — A Sense of Déjà Vu

_{Michael Flannery
December 20, 2017

Evolution

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Factual errors aside, the problem is I’ve heard all this before. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 17, 2016

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, __nedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, brain, credulity, falsified theories, fossil record, hoax, Loren Eiseley, missing links, natural selection, Neanderthals, Piltdown Man, reason, Royal Society, saltationism, The Descent of Man}

What the Piltdown Hoax Tells Us, 104 Years Later

_{Michael Flannery
December 17, 2016

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Scientific Trustworthiness

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A curious anniversary falls this weekend. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 12, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Sociology
Tagged
, __tedited, atheism, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, human exceptionalism, human life, Paul Johnson, Peter Singer, purpose, Richard Weikart, secular culture, self-awareness, Social Darwinism, Susan Blackmore}

Debating Weikart, Peter Singer and Susan Blackmore Omit Atheism’s Glaring Contradictions

_{Michael Flannery
May 12, 2016

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Sociology

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I find troubling Singer's barometer of human worth -- tied to self-awareness -- leading as it does to dangerous nonsense. Read More ›