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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, argument from analogy, Carl Sagan, category error, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Copernican principle, evolution, Frank Drake, Georges Cuvier, Goldilocks Zone, HMS Beagle, James Hutton, Louis Agassiz, Mendelian genetics, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Principles of Geology, Robert Shedinger, Royal Society, Scotland, South America, uniformitarianism, William Paley}

Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences

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February 1, 2023

Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Charles Darwin indiscriminately lumped together the organic and inorganic spheres — a grand category error. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 19, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, automation, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, circulation, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, heart, Howard Glicksman, innovation, intelligent design, Lucretius, Michael Denton, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Paul Davies, physiology, prosthetics, Steve Laufmann}

On the Miracles of Physiological Design

_{Neil Thomas
January 19, 2023

Anatomy, Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science

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The book under review is a splendid and uniquely well-informed contribution to the debate about what is by all indices a theory in possibly terminal crisis. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

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January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 9, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Christianity, evolutionary processes, Higher Criticism, logic, nature, nihilism, On the Origin of Species, poetry, spirituality, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism

_{Neil Thomas
November 9, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Paradoxically, Wordsworth's theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, Bible, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, faith, Great Britain, nature, Psalms, theology, UK Parliament, Victorian England, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth and the Faith of the Victorians

_{Neil Thomas
November 8, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Even Charles Bradlaugh, the first atheist member of Parliament, was haunted by the psalmist’s reproach, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, China, Christianity, Eucharist, Europe, history, India, Jesus Christ, John Keats, John Milton, Middle Ages, Middle East, nature, Paradise Lost, poets, Roman Catholic, Thomas Aquinas, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

The Apotheosis of William Wordsworth

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November 7, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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What many responded to in Wordsworth’s evocations of Nature’s sacrality was his restoration of a partially obscured link between Nature and the divine. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 6, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, cosmogony, earth, Heaven, Hell, Matthew Arnold, Mircea Eliade, poetry, The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad

_{Neil Thomas
November 6, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 5, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, bestseller, Charles Darwin, George Eliot, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, nature, poets, transcendence, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth: The Sage of the Lakes

_{Neil Thomas
November 5, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Wordsworth gave rise not just to a minority group of high-culture admirers but to a popular revolution in ordinary people’s thinking. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 4, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Geology
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, faith, nature, On the Origin of Species, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Science, spirituality, St. Paul, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series), worship}

A Wordsworthian Disciple: William Hale White

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November 4, 2022

Astronomy, Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology

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Many reported being “converted” to a Wordsworthian view of the world after reading him. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, England, France, French Revolution, Mircea Eliade, natural theology, Natural Theology (book), nature, soul, spirituality, William Paley, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Darwin, Wordsworth, and Natural Theology

_{Neil Thomas
November 3, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

I give here a short sample of just one of the passages in “Tintern Abbey” where Wordsworth reports undergoing what might be described as a moment of epiphany. Read More ›