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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, Greek gods, history, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Prometheus, South America, Travel}

The Evolution of Natural Selection

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January 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Remarkably, Darwin’s evolutionary ideas did not derive from his empirical observations in the South Seas or anywhere else. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Charles Darwin, Denis Diderot, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, gods, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Herschel, Judeo-Christian tradition, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lucretius, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorians}

Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention?

_{Neil Thomas
January 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Denis Diderot mooted the possibility of a creature evolving through habitual functioning into another form of life altogether. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Communism, Cristian Bandea, Darwinism, Eric Metaxas, evolution, Freudianism, intelligent design, Is Atheism Dead?, judge, Karl Marx, materialistic science, natural law, Percy Bysshe Shelley, poets, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Meyer, The Return to the God Paradigm (series)}

Materialist Science as Paternalistic Propaganda

_{Neil Thomas
December 14, 2021

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Any attempt to demonstrate the sheer untenability of Darwinian postulates is just met with an ever-closer circling of the wagons. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Antony Flew, brain, Charles Darwin, Church of England, Communism, Cristian Bandea, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, East Germany, Erasmus Darwin, Eric Metaxas, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, philosophes, religion, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, The Return to the God Paradigm (series), Tom Wolfe, William Paley}

Toward a New Natural Theology

_{Neil Thomas
December 13, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Alfred Wallace was arguing his position from simple logic rather than on the authority of revelation from any of the Abrahamic faiths. Read More ›

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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

_{Neil Thomas
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

7}

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

7}

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

_{Neil Thomas
November 15, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

2}

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

6}

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