Tag: Asa Gray

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atomism, barnacles, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin and His Critics, David L. Hull, Duke of Argyll, Epicureanism, evolution, Fleeming Jenkin, Inkwell Press, ipse dixit, Jacob Gruber, James Barham, Lucretianism, odium antitheologicum, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholics, Samuel Haughton, Sir Charles Lyell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Jay Gould, The Descent of Man, theists, vera causa}

A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, Alphonse de Candolle, Asa Gray, biologists, butterflies, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, final cause, Friedrich Engels, Harvard University, historians, James G. Lennox, Karl Marx, mimicry, purpose, teleology, William Graham}

Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

_{Richard Weikart
December 16, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Asa Gray, cats, Charles Lyell, Darwin Mythology, deism, designer, history, mice, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, variations}

Is It a Myth That Darwin Rejected Design?

_{Richard Weikart
December 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Deism is the idea that God created the cosmos and its natural laws, but thereafter did not intervene with miraculous events. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, Asa Gray, athletes, blood, blood pressure, blood vessels, calcium, carbon dioxide, Charles Darwin, circulatory system, Communications Biology, Darwin’s Bluff, embryo, evolution, glucose, great apes, hard problems, heart, heart rate, humans, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, natural selection, oxygen, placenta, potassium, Robert Shedinger, selective pressure, Steve Laufmann, temperature, Your Designed Body}

Exposing the Heart of Neo-Darwinism

_{Howard Glicksman
July 30, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Technology

21}

At complete rest, for your organs and tissues to work properly, your heart must pump out about five liters of blood per minute. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Anaximander, Asa Gray, Bible, California, Charles Darwin, Council of Nicaea, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Genesis, Hamlet, Hebrew Bible, hierophany, Higher Criticism, James Moore, Journal of Researches, King James Bible, miracles, Mircea Eliade, Neal Gillespie, On the Origin of Species, poetry, prophets, Pyrrho, Robert Fitzroy, secularism, St. Paul, Tertullian, The Canon, The Voyage of the Beagle, William Paley}

With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

_{Neil Thomas
July 3, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

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In what follows I pose the question of how Darwin fell subject to such wide “fluctuations” in his beliefs and how he came to resolve those tensions. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 13, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abstract, Asa Gray, biographers, Bridgewater Treatises, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Darwinian mechanism, developmental biology, epigenetics, evolution, genomics, hagiography, mythology, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, orchids, paleontology, punctuation, Theodosius Dobzhansky, variation, Victorian period}

Does the World Need Another Book About Darwin?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 13, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

We need to let Darwin speak for himself. It turns out that Darwin, given the opportunity, is quite capable of dismantling his own mythology. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 3, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Asa Gray, biologists, caterpillars, cats, chance, Charles Darwin, Dogs, evolution, evolutionary theory, Isaac Newton, mice, mutations, randomness, theology, Twitter, UC Davis}

A Debate on the “Randomness” of Mutation

_{Paul Nelson
August 3, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Metaphysics

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The historical wellspring of randomness in evolutionary theory is Darwin’s own insistence on “chance” at the causal foundations of life. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Asa Gray, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Day, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, evolution, history, intelligent design, Michael Denton, public education, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, William Paley}

Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
February 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Given Lincoln’s acknowledgment of the evidence of design in nature, he would be banned from expressing his views on evolution in most public schools today. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Asa Gray, Bridgewater Treatises, evolution, fertilization, history, insects, intelligent design, John Murray, Linnean Society, monograph, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orchids, Sigmund Freud, William Paley}

Charles Darwin’s Freudian Slip

_{Robert Shedinger
September 13, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It looks like Darwin was as impressed as everyone else by the amazing ingenuity in orchids and could not ignore the evidence for design. 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

5}

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