Tag: agnosticism

Natural Selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype, text concept button on keyboard

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Artificial Selection, breeders, Charles Darwin, Christianity, English, fossil record, George Eliot, HMS Beagle, livestock, metaphors, natural selection, naturalists, Naturphilosophie, Origin of Species, physiology, Quarterly Review, Richard Owen, Samuel Wilberforce, terminology, theology, Victorian England, world spirit}

What’s in a Name? Darwin’s Confusing Terminology

_{Neil Thomas
November 17, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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In the English language prior to Darwin, “natural selection” was a term used by those who reared animals to denote nature’s serendipity. 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 ›

Larry Sanger at Discovery Institute's 2024 COSM Technology Summit

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Andrew McDiarmid, apologetics, Christianity, clergy, courage, editors, faith, ID the Future, Larry Sanger, Nathan Jacobson, neutrality, podcast, religion, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Intelligent Design and His Conversion to Christianity

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Sanger was content with his agnosticism until a student posed a question about the fine-tuning of the universe and whether it pointed to a mind behind nature. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, England, ID the Future, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, materialists, Paul Davies, podcast, Richard Dawkins, science teachers, Stephen Hawking, theism, universe, worldview}

A Philosopher Defends Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 24, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Peter S. Williams explains the deceptively simple test he uses to silence claims that intelligent design is not a scientific pursuit. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, Bible, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, faith, Great Britain, nature, Psalms, theology, UK Parliament, Victorian England, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth and the Faith of the Victorians

_{Neil Thomas
November 8, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Even Charles Bradlaugh, the first atheist member of Parliament, was haunted by the psalmist’s reproach, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Read More ›

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Date
July 12, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), Design Inference, DNA, extra-terrestrial intelligence, Gifford lectures, ID the Future, intelligent design, Paul Nelson, podcast, radio signals, science fiction, theism}

Carl Sagan’s Love/Hate Relationship with Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
July 12, 2022

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Philosopher of science Paul Nelson explores an intriguing tension in the thinking of the famous scientist and science popularizer. Read More ›

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Date
February 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Christianity, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwinism, Epicurus, evolution, Hank Hanegraaff, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, logical positivism, Neil Thomas, nihilism, Orthodox Christians, podcast, Richard Dawkins, Taking Leave of Darwin, theism}

Neil Thomas Takes on Epicurus and the Logical Positivists

_{Science and Culture
February 5, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Hanegraaff and Thomas provide a model of how two men with differing positions on Christianity can challenge each other while remaining cordial. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 1, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, animals, Arthur Balfour, C.S. Lewis, evolution, G.K. Chesterton, Gifford lectures, intelligent design, morality, natural selection, Plato, relativism, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin}

Humanity: Natural Selection’s Ultimate Challenge According to C. S. Lewis

_{John G. West
November 1, 2021

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Scientific Reasoning

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How could a blind material process produce man’s unique capabilities of reason and conscience? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Aristotle, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, emergence, evolution, ID the Future, idealism, instinct, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, materialism, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, natural selection, neuroscience, panpsychism, random mutations, teleology}

An Intelligent Design Behind Consciousness — Or an Instinctive One?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2020

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Something immaterial can’t have an effect on the material realm, presumably, so how would it be selected as advantageous by Darwinian natural selection? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 15, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, agnosticism, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, anti-science, atheism, cancel culture, censorship, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, evolution, Expelled (movie), free speech, Jonathan Wells, Lysenkoism, Marxism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Napoleon, Phillip E. Johnson, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Richard Sternberg, totalitarianism, William A. Dembski}

“Live Not by Lies”: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

_{Michael Egnor
July 15, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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The censors depend on active personal destruction not to silence us, but to get us (out of fear) to lie and thus silence ourselves. Read More ›