Tag: Antony Flew

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Science Education
Tagged
, ACLU, Antony Flew, attorneys, biology, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Christians, cricket (sport), Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Dover trial, education, evolution, George W. Bush, H. L. Mencken, Harrisburg, Henry Quastler, Hollywood, information, Inherit the Wind, intelligent design, John E. Jones III, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, natural processes, Pennsylvania, philosophy of science, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Pulitzer Prize, Robert Crowther, Scopes Monkey Trial, Spencer Tracy, Stephen Meyer, Summer for the Gods, theists, theology, William Paley, Williams Jennings Bryan}

Dover Days: A Fatuous Decision Is About to Turn 20 Years Old

_{Jonathan Witt
December 2, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Science Education

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Judge Jones looked my way, and his expression seemed full of fellow feeling, as if to say, “Don’t sweat it. I’m all about free speech. I’ve got your back.” Read More ›

Cave with cave drawings. Cartoon mountain scene background Primitive cave paintings. ancient petroglyphs.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 22, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Psychology
Tagged
, Antony Flew, artifacts, brain, cave art, death, dying, Gary Wenk, graveyard, human beings, Marilyn Mendoza, Michael Egnor, Neanderthals, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Ohio State University, paleontology, periaqueductal gray, presumption of atheism, pseudoscience, psychology, Psychology Today, The Immortal Mind, There Is a God}

In Study of Human Psychology, the Power of “Maybe”

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 22, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology, Psychology

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This is not science and is not a good look for a psychology that purports to have some relationship with science. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Colin Pittendrigh, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Sahotra Sarkar, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Tagged
, Antony Flew, anxiety, atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, depression, Huffington Post, Professor Dave, religious believers, Richard Dawkins, Ross Andersen, Sam Harris, suicide, The Atlantic, There Is a God}

Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 30, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning

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It didn’t help that Hitchens and Dennett are deceased. But what’s significant is that they were not replaced. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 7, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Antony Flew, Baruch Spinoza, Cornell University, Fred Hoyle, John Horgan, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Peter Atkins, Richard Feynman, There Is a God, Werner Heisenberg}

Our Universe Works … Yet Doesn’t Make Sense; How Could That Be?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 7, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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How can so much uncertainty lie placidly at the basis of our universe but disrupt nothing in particular? We even build better computers because of it. Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, Antony Flew, atheism, Bertrand Russell, Darwinian materialism, evolution, geneticists, ID the Future, John Updike, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin, theistic humanism}

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

_{Science and Culture
January 14, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antony Flew, Bernard de Fontenelle, Charles Darwin, complexification, David Stove, evolution, gemmules, heredity, John Gray, meme, Percival Lowell, phlogiston, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, The Selfish Gene, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

The Dawkinsian Mythology

_{Neil Thomas
April 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Philosopher Mary Midgely pointed out the fatuousness of the “meme” hypothesis in painfully direct terms. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Abrahamic faiths, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Antony Flew, Bonfire of the Vanities, brain, Charles Darwin, Church of England, Communism, Cristian Bandea, cytology, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, East Germany, Erasmus Darwin, Eric Metaxas, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, philosophes, religion, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, The Return to the God Paradigm (series), Tom Wolfe, William Paley}

Toward a New Natural Theology

_{Neil Thomas
December 13, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Alfred Wallace was arguing his position from simple logic rather than on the authority of revelation from any of the Abrahamic faiths. Read More ›

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Date
June 30, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antony Flew, atheism, C.S. Lewis, Center for Science and Culture, intelligent design, Intelligent Design YouTube Festival, movie producers, The Magician's Twin, YouTube videos}

C. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
June 30, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Watch to the end of the video and learn about the connection between Lewis and the late, renowned atheist Antony Flew. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 26, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Allan Bloom, Antony Flew, atheism, Censor of the Year, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, comedy, Cosmos (series), Darwin's bulldog, Darwinian evolution, Discovery Institute Press, evidence, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Marcos Eberlin, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Plato, poets, Socrates, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The Republic, The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos, There Is a God, Thomas Henry Huxley, tragedy, wind}

Origins of a Dictum

_{David Klinghoffer
June 26, 2019

Intelligent Design

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“Follow the evidence wherever it leads.” It's almost the official rallying cry of intelligent design proponents. Read More ›