Denis Diderot Type post Author Neil Thomas Date January 6, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Charles Darwin, Denis Diderot, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, gods, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Herschel, Judeo-Christian tradition, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lucretius, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorians Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? Neil Thomas January 6, 2022 Evolution, Intelligent Design 6 Denis Diderot mooted the possibility of a creature evolving through habitual functioning into another form of life altogether. Read More ›
Egyptian_sandals,_vegetable_fiber_-_Bata_Shoe_Museum_-_DSC00009 Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date September 20, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , ancient Greece, authoritarianism, Ben Shapiro, doctors, expertise, Latin, physicists, podcast, scientism, Stephen Meyer, UC San Diego “Ultracrepidarianism” — A Helpful New Word for a Problem in Science and Elsewhere David Klinghoffer September 20, 2021 Bioethics, Medicine 2 It alludes to an adage with roots in ancient Greece, “Let the cobbler not judge above the sandal.” That is, mind your own business. Read More ›
Douglas Axe Dallas Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date April 1, 2020 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __cedited, ancient Greece, atheism, Caltech, credentialism, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, evolution, expertise, experts, frogs, high school, intelligent design, materialists, molecular biology, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, U.C. Berkeley Evolution and the “Experts” — A Liberating Message from Molecular Biologist Doug Axe David Klinghoffer April 1, 2020 Evolution, Intelligent Design 3 The controversy about Darwinian evolution is often framed as a matter of credentials. We must listen to the “experts”! Please precious experts, tell us what to think! Read More ›