Category: Faith & Science | Page 47 | Science and Culture Today

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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, Simon Powell, supernatural, Thomas Malthus}

Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking

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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

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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
, Alfred Tennyson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, asceticism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Dover Beach, Epicurus, Greek gods, In Memoriam, Matthew Arnold, Mrs. Humphry Ward, On the Origin of Species, Oxford, Robert Elsmere, theomachy, Victorian England}

Darwin and Theomachy

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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
, Alec Ryrie, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Das Wesen des Christentums, Death and the Ploughman, faith, James Thomson, literature, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Ruse, Percy Shelley, religion, Richard Swinburne, The Essence of Christianity, Thomas Hardy, William Blake}

Literary Footnotes to the Book of Job

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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
, Alec Ryrie, Arthur Schopenhauer, atheism, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Darwinism, David Hume, doubt, evolution, faith, intellectuals, Ludwig Feuerbach, Mrs. Humphry Ward, novels, On the Origin of Species, Oxford, Robert Elsmere, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

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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 ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, body parts, COVID-19, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), England, evolution, faith, Fleeming Jenkin, Lord Kelvin, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pandemic, reviewers, Victorians}

Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith

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March 1, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Fleeming Jenkin (the distinguished Scottish scientist who with Lord Kelvin spearheaded the laying of the transatlantic cable) was particularly scathing. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 24, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, documentary, Eric Wallace, faith, intelligent design, interview, movies, Return of the God Hypothesis, science, Star Wars, Stephen Meyer, theatrical release}

Meyer, Wallace: Return of the God Hypothesis — The Book…and the Movie!

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February 24, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Actually, now that you mention it, says Stephen Meyer, “a theatrical release documentary is being made about the book." Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apologetics, Aristotle, Christianity, creationism, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolution, faith, Islam, Martin Luther, Muslims, Plato, Protestantism, Pythagoras, Richard Dawkins, scientific establishment, secularization, theology}

Muslims Should Be Natural Allies of Intelligent Design

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February 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I have been invited to speak at many Islamic Centers throughout the United States and Canada over the last ten years. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, antibiotics, aspirin, Associated Press, CDC, COVID-19, Dallas, Dennis Prager, Donald Trump, Evangelical Christians, faith, First Baptist Church, humility, jesus, Jews, libertinism, parents, Protestants, religious leaders, Roman Catholic, Sudafed, totalitarian science, Tylenol, unvaccinated, vaccine}

In a Historic Moment, Many Religious Leaders Fail the Test of COVID-19

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February 18, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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Both David French and Robert Jeffress seem certain that their fellow believers’ religious objections can’t be sincere. Read More ›

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Date
February 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Cornelius Hunter, creation, Darwinism, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, theistic evolution, utilitarianism}

Darwin’s Rhetorical Foundation of Sand: Theological Utilitarianism

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February 8, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Evolutionary theory, argued in the way that Darwin and many of his followers argue the case, is fundamentally theology-based. Read More ›