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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, complexification, Darwinian theory, evolution, evolutionary biology, Harold Urey, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, materialism, microbes, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, nature, Stanley Miller, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Existential Implications of the Miller-Urey Experiment

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April 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Words, even meaningless words, have the power to create their own virtual realities in our minds. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, biotechnology, book reviews, defining terms, evolution, film, film review, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, intellectual history, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, movies, panspermia, satire, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Frankenstein and His Offspring

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April 13, 2022

Biology, Origin of Life, Technology

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"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Carl Sagan, DNA, double helix, early Earth, Francis Crick, Harold Urey, James Watson, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, Nobel Prize, proteins, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, University of Chicago, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Imagining “Abiogenesis”: Crick, Watson, and Franklin

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April 12, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alexander Oparin, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, evolution, Francesco Redi, Harold Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, Louis Pasteur, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, Stanley Miller, University of Chicago, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series), William Harvey}

Considering “Abiogenesis,” an Imaginary Term in Science

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April 11, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

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In the 17th century, medical pioneer Sir William Harvey and Italian scientist Francesco Redi both proved the untenability of spontaneous generation. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antony Flew, Charles Darwin, complexification, evolution, heredity, John Gray, phlogiston, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

The Dawkinsian Mythology

_{Neil Thomas
April 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Philosopher Mary Midgely pointed out the fatuousness of the “meme” hypothesis in painfully direct terms. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, aliens, extraterrestrials, Italian, Man’s Place in the Universe, Mars, Moon, The World of Life, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

The Man on the Moon and Martian Canals

_{Neil Thomas
April 8, 2022

Evolution, Physical Sciences

5}

French writer Bernard de Fontenelle expressed the belief that there really was a man on the moon — and a whole civilisation to boot, if you please. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Antoine Lavoisier, biosphere, Charles Darwin, David Hume, Epicurus, evolution, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, natural selection, neologisms, Peter Atkins, Stephen Hawking, universe, Victorians, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science

_{Neil Thomas
April 7, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, "natural selection." Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, creator, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, Europe, evolution, Germany, history, Jesus Christ, materialism, Naturphilosophie, New Testament, nihilism, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma (series), Rome, teleology, world spirit}

As Many Opinions as There Are Men?

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March 22, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

4}

The ideas of Ernst Haeckel, in his youth a hardline Darwinian materialist, were to evolve to a surprising degree. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, creation, evolution, James Moore, Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma (series), Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, theistic Darwinism, theistic evolution, theology}

The Rise of Theistic Darwinism

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March 21, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This form of objection left the door ajar to the kind of “hybrid” interpretation favored by some in both Britain and America in the later Victorian period. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 19, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterium, Charles Darwin, complexification, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Lamarckian theory, natural preservation, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma (series), Richard Dawkins, whales}

The Hamlet of Down House

_{Neil Thomas
March 19, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Darwin began casting around in his mind for supplementary theories, sometimes going so far as to reconsider evolutionary thinking he had once firmly rejected. Read More ›