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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)

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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

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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)

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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 ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Christian de Duve, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolution, fundamentalists, gravity, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, john lennox, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, natural selection, Nobel Prize, Peter Atkins, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, William A. Dembski}

How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin

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November 5, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

I had once assumed that any opposition to Darwin must necessarily be confined to the ranks of such as Biblical fundamentalists. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Devil, Greek gods, Heaven, Hell, HMS Beagle, Jesus Christ, John Milton, Joseph Hooker, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, religion, Satan, Scripture, spontaneous generation, Titan}

Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species

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October 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, animism, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, evolution, James Le Fanu, materialistic science, natural selection, natural theology, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, Samuel Wilberforce, selfish genes, Zeus}

The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment

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September 13, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 26, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Anglo-Saxons, Anthropic Principle, astrophysics, Bertrand Russell, cosmic fine-tuning, Friedrich Nietzsche, intelligent design, Michael Denton, Middle Ages, Nazis, New Atheists, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Richard Dawkins, The Privileged Planet, Voltaire, World War II}

Cosmos, Chaos, and a Privileged Address in the Universe

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August 26, 2021

Evolution, Physical Sciences, Physics

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What are we to make of this radical discontinuity between the Earth and the rest of the cosmos? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, apes, brain, Charles Darwin, Great Britain, humans, The Descent of Man}

In Darwin, the Descent of a PR Man

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August 19, 2021

Evolution

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Darwin's reiteration here and elsewhere of the phrase “we may confidently believe” veils the tenuous truth-value of what he proposes. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago}

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

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August 12, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, atomism, Charles Darwin, creation, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Greek gods, intelligent design, Lucretius, Romans}

Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate

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August 5, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction. Read More ›