Category: History of Science

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, bioethics, biology, Christians, Christopher Columbus, complementarian model, computer science, concordance models?, conflict model, Copernicus, cosmology, evolution, flat-earth cosmology, Galileo Galilei, Genesis, genomes, Google, Grove City College, history, history of science, intelligent design, Mount Doom, natural philosophy, poetry, pre-Copernican science, religion, Robert J. Marks II, skeptics, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, Winston Ewert}

Science Before the Rise of Modern Science

_{William A. Dembski
October 27, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science

25}

An interview with Winston Ewert about his fascinating new book on the interaction between science and faith before Copernicus. Read More ›

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Date
October 21, 2025

Categories
Culture
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, A. N. Whitehead, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alistair McKitterick, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, David Galloway, Enlightenment, False Messiah, French Revolution, George Eliot, history, James Le Fanu, literature, Marxism, Michael Behe, Neil Thomas, Paul Beasley-Murray, Peter Jeavons, philosophy of nature, purpose, purposeless, Steve Fuller, Steve Laufmann, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Origin of Species, The Prelude, Victorian England, William Wordsworth}

New Book: Darwinism as “The God That Failed”

_{Science and Culture
October 21, 2025

Culture, Evolution, History of Science

8}

There is hope for renewal in a flanking movement against materialism — the spiritually charged philosophy of nature in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, atheism, Basil Willey, Brights, C. S. Lewis, causality, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christian Bandea, Daniel Dennett, Deborah Lavin, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, ineffable, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Leslie Stephen, Lisbon earthquake, logomachia, Louise Mabille, Marcus du Sautoy, Meister Eckhart, Moses Maimonides, natural selection, negative theology, New Atheists, Newtonianism, Noam Chomsky, Peter Vorzimmer, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Robin Le Poidevin, Sextus Empiricus, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, The above consideration, Thomas Aquinas, truth, tsunami, Unmoved Mover, via negativa, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg, wortelos, wortlos}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

17}

Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, augustine, Basil Willey, Christianity, Chrysostom, Church Fathers, computer scientists, Copernican Revolution, creationists, Darwinian evolution, evolution, faith and science, historians, intelligent design, modern era, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universal common ancestry, Winston Ewert}

What’s Bothering Augustine?

_{Winston Ewert
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

7}

I began to understand that there was a rich history of the interaction between the Church and premodern science, but not one that is widely known. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 24, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, ancient world, Assured Facts of Modern Science, augustine, Big Bang, Christians, climate claims, Darwinian evolution, faith and science, history of science, Jed Macosko, medieval Church, modern science, multiverse theory, private truth, psychology, Reformation, Romans, Winston Ewert}

Faith and Science Before Modern Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 24, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

5}

Winston Ewert offers a surprising look at how Christians debated science theories in the ancient and medieval world. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, biology, Christoph Schönborn, Clarence Darrow, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Father Martin Hilbert, Father Raymond J. de Souza, Georges Lemaître, intelligent design, National Catholic Register, New York Times, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Scopes trial, Toronto Oratory}

National Catholic Register: Father Hilbert “Would Have Won the Argument with Darrow”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

3}

For Catholics (and others) interested in the subject, Father de Souza has a book recommendation from Discovery Institute Press. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, BBC Earth Science, bullfighters, bullfighting, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dayton, drinking, drumstick, eating, Ernest Hemingway, Evangelical Christians, evolutionary orthodoxy, fishing, fist-fighting, Günter Bechly, H. L. Mencken, headlines, Jake Barnes, jealousy, Jews, John Scopes, journalism, Lady Brett Ashley, newspapers, paleontologists, Pamplona, Paris, Princeton University, Robert Cohn, Scopes trial, Spain, The Sun Also Rises, William Jennings Bryan}

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

6}

William Jennings Bryan had a hard time coming up with expert scientific witnesses who were dubious of Darwinian theory. He wouldn’t now. Read More ›

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Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, American Birth Control League, American Crisis, apologetics, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, culture, Dayton, Discovery Institute, Eugene Debs, Eugenics Education Society, Francis Galton, fundamentalist Christianity, H.L. Mencken, Hollywood, Industrial Workers of the World, Inherit the Wind, Jefrey Breshears, John Scopes, John West, Only Yesterday, Origin of Species, Roaring Twenties, science and religion, scientific racism, scientism, Scopes trial, Tennessee, The Areopagus, The Descent of Man, The Magician’s Twin, trial lawyers, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, Young Earth Creationists}

Scopes Revisited: An Interview with Historian Jefrey Breshears

_{Science and Culture
July 7, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

10}

Promoted as a battle royale between science and religion — evolutionary theory versus biblical creation — in its actual content the trial was underwhelming. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, americans, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Big Bang, biology, brain, Christians, cultural Christianity, cultural Christians, Dayton, Denyse O'Leary, DNA, Elon Musk, evolution, faith and science, feelings, immaterial genome, intellectuals, Jonathan Haidt, Jordan Peterson, mainstream media, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, New Atheist, Niall Ferguson, Orthodox Jews, Peter Savodnik, Pew Research Center, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Salvo Magazine, Scopes Monkey Trial, Stephen Meyer, Tennessee, The Free Press, The Immortal Mind, Western civilization}

With Scopes Trial Anniversary Approaching, We Need Science, Not Just Feelings

_{David Klinghoffer
June 30, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

5}

At best, Christian commitment without a reasonable basis is only shifting sand under believers’ feet. At worst, it invites disdain. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Alan Rayner, Albert Einstein, Antón Barba-Kay, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, China, cooperation, COVID-19, Cultural Revolution, Denis Noble, Erasmus Darwin, eugenics, evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joana Xavier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Marxism, mutationism, N. S. Lyons, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, orthogenesis, Peter Corning, Stuart Kauffman, Synergism Hypothesis, UNESCO, world government, Zeitgeist}

Nature in the Image of Man: Introducing the New Social Darwinism

_{Daniel Witt
June 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

16}

Always, the initial social/intellectual change has come first, and the scientific paradigm shift has followed after. Read More ›