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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

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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 ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 18, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, electron microscope, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, fossil record, natural selection, Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma (series), Thomas Henry Huxley}

Where Is the Evidence for Darwinism?

_{Neil Thomas
March 18, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Notoriously, one of the shrewdest of Darwin’s “reticences” concerned the lack of fossil evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, evolution, Evolution News, history, natural selection, Nicene Creed, On the Origin of Species, Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma (series), Thomas Huxley}

Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma

_{Neil Thomas
March 17, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A colleague remarked to me (in an uncharacteristically unscholarly disclosure) that he could not share my interest in “all this old 19th-century stuff.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), evolution, faith, history, intelligent cause, intelligent design, jesus, prisoners, scientists, Thomas Woodward, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith: A Postscript

_{Neil Thomas
March 7, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As is the case with the Biblical parables of Jesus, this one is entirely self-explanatory and needs no further comment from myself. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, atomists, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Christian de Duve, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Erasmus Darwin, logos, magical thinking, philosophers, supernatural, Thomas Malthus}

Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking

_{Neil Thomas
March 6, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Life Sciences

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Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), evolution, faith, First Cause, Flower Power, Germany, Higher Criticism, information, Roman Catholic, secularism, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Swinging 1860s

_{Neil Thomas
March 5, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The threat which such thinking posed to theistic beliefs was not lost on the Roman Catholic Church when Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council of 1869. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 4, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Epicurus, Greek gods, Matthew Arnold, On the Origin of Species, Oxford, Victorian England}

Darwin and Theomachy

_{Neil Thomas
March 4, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), faith, literature, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Ruse, Percy Shelley, religion, Richard Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, William Blake}

Literary Footnotes to the Book of Job

_{Neil Thomas
March 3, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Of immediate relevance to Darwin’s generation were writers who can be traced in a fairly direct line from the beginning of the 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Arthur Schopenhauer, atheism, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Darwinism, David Hume, doubt, evolution, faith, intellectuals, Ludwig Feuerbach, novels, On the Origin of Species, Oxford, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

_{Neil Thomas
March 2, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›