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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 10, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Anthony Flew, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Carlo Rovelli, Christian de Duve, Eric Metaxas, Goldilocks Zone, intelligent design, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Nobel laureates, quantum physics, The Return to the God Paradigm (series), theism, Uncertainty Principle, Werner Heisenberg}

The Tip of a Larger Iceberg

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December 10, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Our profound ignorance of what Lucretius termed the nature of things has been revealed by the work of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Heisenberg. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 9, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthony Flew, Aristotle, atheism, British Rationalist Association, Cicero, Cristian Bandea, DNA, electron microscope, Epicurus, Eric Metaxas, First Cause, Galen, intellectual history, Irreducible Complexity, Is Atheism Dead?, Lucretius, Paul Davies, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Plato, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Return to the God Paradigm (series)}

Nothing New Under the Sun

_{Neil Thomas
December 9, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Cristian Bandea, Darwinians, Eric Metaxas, evolution, Evolution News, Is Atheism Dead?, Lawrence Krauss, lottery, mutations, nature, On the Origin of Species, Phillip E. Johnson, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Steve Taylor, The Blind Watchmaker, The Return to the God Paradigm (series)}

The Return to the God Paradigm

_{Neil Thomas
December 8, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The year 2021 witnessed the publication of three similarly but not identically themed books which all oppose the current evolutionary paradigm. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 1, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, English, evolution, French, German, intelligent design, Lamarckism, Latin, Mother Nature, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, telos, translation}

Natural Selection: A Conceptually Incoherent Term

_{Neil Thomas
December 1, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As a schoolboy I remember being told that the surest way of finding out if any given English proposition made sense or not was to try to translate it into Latin, French, or German. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Cicero, common sense, David Hume, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, Geoffrey Chaucer, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Lucretius, materialism, natural selection, Plato, Victorian England}

How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin: A Coda

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November 15, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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After seeing my recent book through to publication, I began to experience a certain gnawing feeling. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle, Darwinian theory, evolution, freedom of conscience, Great Britain, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), intelligent design, nature, paradigm shift, Paul Davies, Scopes Monkey Trial, Tennessee, Thomas Kuhn, United States, Unmoved Mover}

Intelligent Design and Natural Theology

_{Neil Thomas
November 12, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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How just is the imputation of “neo-creationist” tendencies to members of the intelligent design community? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 11, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Copernican Revolution, cosmic rays, earth, evolution, heliocentric model, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), humankind, intelligent design, Lucretius, Michael Denton}

The Stars Above Us

_{Neil Thomas
November 11, 2021

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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What Lucretius once termed in the widest sense “the nature of things” is no respecter of modern scientific conventions. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Louis Pasteur, macromutations, Mars, micromutations, Niles Eldredge, Paul Davies, sociobiology, Stanley Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Viking mission, William Harvey}

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

_{Neil Thomas
November 10, 2021

Chemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Paleontology

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Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 8, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, cognitive dissonance, evolution, Fred Hoyle, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), intelligent design, materialists, On the Origin of Species, public opinion, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker}

Darwin’s Many Doubts

_{Neil Thomas
November 8, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Did the admirably candid Charles Darwin himself really believe all that he wrote about evolution? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, animal husbandry, biologists, Charles Darwin, Communism, Darwinism, East Germany, evolution, genetic code, Homo sapiens, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), missing links, Nazis, Piltdown Man, propaganda}

Darwin on Trial (Again)

_{Neil Thomas
November 6, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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My attempt to disentangle this “case” forensically was to lead me on what was often a surprising journey of discovery. Read More ›