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Date
September 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, human origins, ID the Future, intellectual history, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, Michael Keas, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, podcast}

How Evolutionary Theory’s Co-Founder Broke with Darwin

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September 18, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Unlike Darwin, Wallace thought that biology, chemistry, and cosmology proclaimed clear evidence of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
September 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Date
September 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science and Culture
September 4, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This year, 2023, marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lamarckism, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, metaphors, Mother Nature, natural causes, natural selection, nature, On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Steve Laufmann, Steve Stewart-Williams, Thomas Malthus, transmutation, Victorians, world spirit}

Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage

_{Neil Thomas
March 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, eugenics, evolution, forced sterilization, From Darwin to Hitler, Germany, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harry Bruinius, Heidelberg University, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Jacques Barzun, James Moore, Janet Browne, Joseph Stalin, New Scientist, On the Origin of Species, Paul Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Racism, Richard Weikart, Slate, Social Darwinism, Stanley Jaki, The Descent of Man, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Thomas Malthus, United States, Victorian England}

Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
January 12, 2023

Evolution, Science

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The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these. Read More ›

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Date
September 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

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September 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, history, John William Draper, Joseph Hooker, Linnaean Society, natural selection, Nature (journal), On the Origin of Species, Peter Bowler, propaganda, proselytizing, Royal Society, Samuel Wilberforce, Thomas Henry Huxley, X Club}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: The Role of Propaganda

_{Neil Thomas
August 26, 2022

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science

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To isolate and quantify the factors which ultimately led to the acceptance of Darwinian ideas is not a straightforward task. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, cosmogony, evolution, Glen Roy, Harvard University, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Louis Agassiz, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Platonic forms, Robert Chambers, United States}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin Comes to America

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2022

Evolution, Science

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A less class-bound kind of protectiveness was shown to Darwin in the United States by Professor Asa Gray of Harvard University. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Britain, Down House, evolution, friendship, George Romanes, history, HMS Beagle, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, natural selection, Oxbridge, Peter Bowler, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, sociologists, Thomas Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Westminster Abbey, William Whewell}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin and the English Class System

_{Neil Thomas
August 24, 2022

Evolution, Science

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The theory of natural selection was the co-discovery of two men, but by the mid 1860s one of its progenitors began to reject his own theory. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Big Bang, Bonfire of the Vanities, cosmogony, Genesis, Headlong Hall, homologies, ideology, language, Michelangelo’s David, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, Oxford English Dictionary, perverse incentives, phrenology, Richard Lewontin, Steady State, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Theory of Everything, Thomas Love Peacock, Tom Wolfe}

Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery

_{Neil Thomas
August 18, 2022

Cosmology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›