Category: History of Science | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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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 ›

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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, augustine, Big Bang, Christians, Darwinian evolution, faith and science, history of science, 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

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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, Clarence Darrow, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Father Martin Hilbert, Georges Lemaître, intelligent design, New York Times, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Scopes trial}

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

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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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, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, Dayton, drinking, eating, Ernest Hemingway, Evangelical Christians, fishing, Günter Bechly, headlines, Jews, John Scopes, journalism, newspapers, paleontologists, Paris, Princeton University, Scopes trial, Spain, William Jennings Bryan}

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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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
, apologetics, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, culture, Dayton, Discovery Institute, Francis Galton, H.L. Mencken, Hollywood, Inherit the Wind, John Scopes, John West, Origin of Species, science and religion, scientific racism, scientism, Scopes trial, Tennessee, 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 & Culture
July 7, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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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, 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, Niall Ferguson, Orthodox Jews, Pew Research Center, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, 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

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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, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, China, cooperation, COVID-19, Denis Noble, Erasmus Darwin, eugenics, evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joana Xavier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Marxism, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, Peter Corning, Stuart Kauffman, UNESCO, Zeitgeist}

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

_{Daniel Witt
June 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

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

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Alexis de Tocqueville, animals, capitalism, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Europe, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biologists, food, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Margaret Sanger, Modern Synthesis, Neil Thomas, On the Origin of Species, paradigm shift, population, printing press, Social Darwinism, Thomas Malthus, United States, Winston Churchill, World War II, worldview, Zeitgeist}

Evolution Evolved to Mirror the Zeitgeist

_{Daniel Witt
June 4, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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By the mid 1800s, the mental climate had shifted, and the time was ripe for a new Darwin to craft a new Darwinism. Read More ›