Category: History of Science | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, aether, air, Aristotle, Bible, Center for Science and Culture, change, circular movement, cosmologists, creation, dark energy, dark matter, destruction, earth, elements, ethers, fire, galaxies, heavens, heavy elements, immutability, light elements, linear movement, modern science, natural forces, night, outer space, pace, physics, rotation, smoke, speed, stars, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, water, Winston Ewert}

Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question

_{Winston Ewert
March 11, 2026

History of Science, Philosophy, Physics

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Modern theories postulate entities to account for differences between what we would expect from physics and our observations of distant space. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, ancient philosophies, Center for Science and Culture, Christian thinkers, Christianity, data, discovery, early church, Epicureanism, faith, faith and science, history of science, ID the Future, intelligent design, modern science, philosophy, reason, science, scientific debates, scientific revolution, software engineers, technology, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge}

Science Before the Scientific Revolution: What Can We Learn from It?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 10, 2026

Faith & Science, History of Science, Philosophy

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Ancient and medieval thinkers possessed impressive reasoning powers despite lacking modern technology and data. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 29, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, atheism, Atheists: The Origin of the Species, Avebury, Bishop of Exeter, Book of Job, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Church Fathers, Corsica, Darwinism, Dennis Harding, False Messiah, Gregory the Great, hochvart, Hugh Trevor-Roper, James Henry Froude, John Aubrey, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kellow Chesney, Lisbon earthquake, London, Middle High German, New Testament, Nick Spencer, Old Testament, Origin of Species, Peace of Augsburg, Pentre Ifan, Poor Henry, practical atheists, Ring of Brodgar, secularization, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stonehenge, symmetry thesis, The Nemesis of Faith, The Victorian Underworld, United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh, Voltaire}

“The Monster in the Sky”: Revisiting Atheism’s Creation Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 29, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Faith & Science, History of Science

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The fact that Darwin’s evolutionary ideas could not be shown to be scientifically coherent remained for the uncritical a side issue. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 27, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratory, DNA, faith and science, Francis Crick, history of science, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, James Watson, Latin, physicists, pleasure, Presbyterians, Psalms, scientists, Stephen Meyer, theology}

Watch: Stephen Meyer in Cambridge, at the Doors of the Cavendish Lab

_{David Klinghoffer
January 27, 2026

Faith & Science, History of Science

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Even these atheist scientists recognized that beauty was a marker that pointed to truth in their field, in which they too could take pleasure. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 6, 2026

Categories
Historical Sciences
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, Casey Luskin, code, conflict thesis, DNA, engineering, history of science, ID the Future, information science, intelligent agency, Kitzmiller v. Dover, logos, mathematical laws, natural world, philosophy of science, podcast, reality, University of Warwick}

Casey Luskin and Professor Steve Fuller on the Rich Tradition of Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 6, 2026

Historical Sciences, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Fuller describes a historical understanding where modern science originated from a theological foundation. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 18, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, American Scientist, avida, Caucasians, creationists, Dover trial, education, Edwards v. Aguillard, Ethiopian, Eugenie Scott, genetic algorithms, intelligent design, iron ore, Jay Wexler, Kitzmiller v. Dover, law, methodological naturalism, Michigan State University, natural, NOMA, Of Pandas and People, philosophers, Robert Pennock, Scopes trial, Stephen Jay Gould, supernatural, Supreme Court, terminology, Winston Ewert, Young Earth Creationism}

On Scopes and Dover Trials, Philosopher Robert Pennock Twists History and Science

_{Casey Luskin and John Bloom
December 18, 2025

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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There is no reason for Pennock’s rule other than to short-circuit the origins debate and rule intelligent design out-of-court without addressing the evidence. Read More ›

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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, computer science, Copernicus, cosmology, evolution, Galileo Galilei, Genesis, genomes, Google, history, history of science, intelligent design, Mount Doom, natural philosophy, poetry, 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, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, David Galloway, Enlightenment, False Messiah, French Revolution, George Eliot, history, James Le Fanu, literature, Marxism, Michael Behe, Neil Thomas, philosophy of nature, purpose, Steve Fuller, Steve Laufmann, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Origin of Species, Victorian England, William Wordsworth}

New Book: Darwinism as “The God That Failed”

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October 21, 2025

Culture, Evolution, History of Science

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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, Daniel Dennett, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Lisbon earthquake, Meister Eckhart, natural selection, New Atheists, Noam Chomsky, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, Thomas Aquinas, truth, Unmoved Mover, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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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, Church Fathers, computer scientists, Copernican Revolution, creationists, Darwinian evolution, evolution, faith and science, historians, intelligent design, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, 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

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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 ›