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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atomism, barnacles, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin and His Critics, David L. Hull, Duke of Argyll, Epicureanism, evolution, Fleeming Jenkin, Inkwell Press, ipse dixit, Jacob Gruber, James Barham, Lucretianism, odium antitheologicum, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholics, Samuel Haughton, Sir Charles Lyell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Jay Gould, The Descent of Man, theists, vera causa}

A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Read More ›

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Author
Kate Kavanaugh

Date
October 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Annelida, Arthropoda, biology, butterfly metamorphosis, churches, co-ops, Creepy Crawly Complexity, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute Press, earthworm, ecosystems, education, George Damoff, homeschools, ID Education Day, Idaho, insects, intelligent design, megadrilologists, Nematoda, Paul Nelson, Pedro Moura, private schools, roundworm, schools, spiders, Spokane, Tacoma, The God Proofs, Washington State, Western Washington, worms, zoology}

ID Education Day Is Coming to Tacoma, November 6!

_{Kate Kavanaugh
October 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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This is a fantastic field trip opportunity for middle and high school students in homeschool and private school settings to interact directly with scientists. Read More ›

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Author
James Barham

Date
September 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Church of England, Darwin’s bulldog, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, evolutionism, excommunication, faith and science, General Morphology of Organisms, Generelle Morphologie der Organismen, historical figures, history, James Barham, King’s College, Lincoln’s Inn, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, social elite, St. George Jackson Mivart, Thomas Henry Huxley, Wikipedia, William Dembski}

St. George Jackson Mivart: A Historical Snapshot

_{James Barham
September 30, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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In the end, Darwin, Huxley, and their friends collectively decided to “cut him dead,” meaning to ostracize him socially. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Ethics
Planetology
Tagged
, animals, astrobiology, comprehension, Convention on Biological Diversity, copper mining, COPUOS, COSPAR, Elon Musk, ethicists, geological features, indigenous people, International Court of Justice, Mars, moons, nature rights, planets, Science Direct, solar system, space exploration, space microbes, trees, waves}

Now, It’s Rights for Planets, Moons, and Space Microbes

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 29, 2025

Astronomy, Ethics, Planetology

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The ultimate purpose in granting such rights would be to disincentivize investments in space exploration and keep us Gaia-bound. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, ampersand, athan Jacobson, bookmark, Center for Science and Culture, creationism, discernment, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution News, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, Möbius strip, Nathan Jacobson, news media, podcast, Rob Crowther, Science and Culture, Science and Culture Today, science reporting}

On the Origin of Science and Culture Today

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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First, the conversation delves into the site’s launch in December 2004, when the modern intelligent design movement and the Internet were both relatively new. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Tagged
, activism, assisted dying, assisted suicide, children, coercion, disability rights, England, equality, facilitation, gender ideology, Harry Potter, House of Commons, J. K. Rowling, liberals, Neil Murray, physicians, popular culture, prevention, private spaces, suicidal people, Wales, women}

J. K. Rowling Comes Out Against Legalized Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2025

Arts, Bioethics

2}

Two of the core tenets of liberalism are (supposed to be) protecting vulnerable people from exploitation and promoting equality among all people. Read More ›

Making mistakes and wrong answer concept. Hand wiping math formula off blackboard in classroom at school. Student or teacher correcting incorrect calculation on chalkboard.

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Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Mathematics
Tagged
, ethics, fraud, funding, German Mathematical Society, mathematicians, mathematics, metrics, misconduct, rankings, sciences, Tibi Puiu, ZME Science}

Now It’s Science Fraud in…Mathematics?

_{Science and Culture
September 26, 2025

Ethics, Mathematics

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Most lay people would not think that mathematics is a particularly safe place to do fraud. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, advocacy, Cherokee, dams, earth goddess, environmental public policies, flowing, Great Lakes, Harvard Climate Action Week, Harvard Kennedy School, human harm, indigenous knowledge, intelligentsia, nature rights, neo-pagan mysticism, Pachamama, rivers, water}

Nature Right Pushes Neo-Pagan Mysticism at Highest Academic Levels

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 25, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism

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Most recently, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a symposium on “nature rights” undergirded by “indigenous knowledge.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Ben Jonson, Charles Bradlaugh, Christopher Marlowe, Cicero, David Berman, Doctor Faustus, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, H. J. Shephard, history, HMS Beagle, intellectual history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Journal of Researches, literature, Lucretianism, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Misia Landau, Origin of Species, Peter Bement, philosophy, Plato, Renaissance, seafaring, The Alchemist, Tom Wolfe}

Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist: Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea

_{Neil Thomas
September 25, 2025

Arts, Evolution

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Today we would of course brand both Faust and the Alchemist fantasists or “mad scientists” of the first order. Was Darwin prone to such wishful thinking? Read More ›

Magic imaginary world full with color and happiness. Generative ai.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 22, 2025

Categories
Epistemology
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Carole Hooven, Clarence Darrow, Colin Wright, common descent, Darwinists, Edward Larson, evidence, evolutionary biology, folk beliefs, fundamentalism, gravity, human origins, Jerry Coyne, logic, New York Times, Parting Shot, private truth, public truth, reason, Richard Dawkins, Scopes Monkey Trial, subjectivism, Summer for the Gods, Tennessee, The Story of Testosterone, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan}

In Science, the Rising Power of Private Truth

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 22, 2025

Epistemology, Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Many people experience a vast liberation when they are freed from the constraints of logic, reason, and evidence. Read More ›