Tag: ancient Greece

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. 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

15}

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
Neil Thomas

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, George Eliot, history, HMS Beagle, intellectual history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Journal of Researches, literature, Lucretianism, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Misia Landau, Origin of Species, philosophy, Plato, Renaissance, seafaring, Tom Wolfe}

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

_{Neil Thomas
September 25, 2025

Arts, Evolution

19}

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 ›

Young boy and chimpanzee, both with open mouths in excitement or surprise, side by outdoor setting

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, ancient Greece, cells, chimpanzees, China, civilizations, complexity, David Berlinski, evolutionists, human origins, ID the Future, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, mathematicians, non-life, origin of life, RNA, RNA world, Science After Babel, Stephen Jay Gould, Western Europe}

David Berlinski on Human-Chimp Differences, Human Origins, Origin of Life, and More

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 29, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

2}

He challenges Stephen Jay Gould’s idea that the difference between humans and chimps is merely one of degree but not kind, calling this “utterly ridiculous.” Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
August 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Australia, Christianity, disabilities, happiness, Hebrews, Hippocratic Oath, human life, infanticide, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, physicians, Plato, poison, Pythagoras, Socrates, Stoics, The Republic}

Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

_{Richard Weikart
August 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

13}

Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, ancient Greece, animals, assisted suicide, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Anderson, euthanasia, healing, human life, humans, killing, Nazi Germany, Richard Weikart, Unnatural Death}

Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 6, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

Dr. Weikart's book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from ancient Greece to today. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Euripides, gods, Judeo-Christian tradition, mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, secularism, theodicy}

Poet and Scientist, Goethe Offered an Enlightenment Theodicy

_{Neil Thomas
April 18, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

13}

Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 1, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, ancient Greece, civilization, color, complexity, creator, doctors, E.O. Wilson, emergence, emotion, empirical science, engineers, human mind, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, memory, photon, quantum mechanics, René Descartes, science of purpose, scientific method, scientism, sound, theology, thought, vision, Werner Heisenberg}

Understanding the Limits of Scientism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 1, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

5}

The great impasse in empirical science was reached early in the 20th century when quantum mechanics was first being developed. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
May 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, atomism, Bridgewater Treatises, Chance and Necessity, Darwinism, Democritus, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Wald, imago Dei, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, Lawrence Henderson, materialism, natural selection, pre-Socratic philosophers, Stephen Jay Gould, Stone Age, The Fitness of the Environment, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, Western civilization}

How We Moved Beyond Darwin to the Miracle of Man

_{Michael Denton
May 11, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The extraordinary ensembles of natural environmental fitness described in my book are thoroughly documented scientific facts. Read More ›

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Date
March 9, 2022

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Higgs Boson, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, Large Hadron Collider, Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, Reductionism}

“Miraculously” Fine-Tuned Universe? Evidence from the Large Hadron Collider

_{Science & Culture
March 9, 2022

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

The continued spookiness of the fine-tuning of the interactions in the universe is a constant threat to materialism. Read More ›