RembrandtvanRijn-Ascholarinhisstudy1634-2 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date September 25, 2025 CategoriesArtsEvolution Tagged , alchemy, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Ben Jonson, Charles Bradlaugh, Christopher Marlowe, Cicero, David Berman, Doctor Faustus, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, H. J. Shephard, history, HMS Beagle, intellectual history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Journal of Researches, literature, Lucretianism, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Misia Landau, Origin of Species, Peter Bement, philosophy, Plato, Renaissance, seafaring, The Alchemist, 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 ›
Lucretia_committing_suicide Type post Author Richard Weikart Date August 19, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Australia, Christianity, disabilities, happiness, Hebrews, Hippocratic Oath, human life, infanticide, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, Melbourne, physicians, Plato, Plutarch, 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 ›
Cicero Denounces Catiline Type post Author Nancy Pearcey Date January 4, 2024 CategoriesFaith & ScienceIntelligent DesignPhilosophyScientific Reasoning Tagged , Ancient Rome, Bible, Christ, Cicero, design intuition, Finding Truth, history of id, intelligence, intelligent design, machinery, mind, nature, universe Cicero on Intelligent Design — Sound Familiar? Nancy Pearcey January 4, 2024 Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning 2 Yesterday was Cicero's birthday. To celebrate, here's my favorite quote from the Roman philosopher. Read More ›
Denis Diderot Type post Author Neil Thomas Date January 6, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, daemons, Denis Diderot, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Fates, gods, harpies, 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, satyrs, 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 ›
