Tag: atomism

Charles Robert Darwin bust sculpture, English naturalist, geologist, and biologist. Generative AI

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, anti-theism, atomism, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, deification, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, faith and science, False Messiah, ID the Future, Lucritianism, materialistic philosophy, natural selection, Neil Thomas, podcast, scientific materialism, Sir Charles Lyell, uniformitarianism}

Neil Thomas on the Internal Flaws and Historical Roots of Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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It might surprise you to learn that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection did not triumph on scientific grounds alone. Read More ›

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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
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antiquity, atomism, biologists, chaos, Charles Darwin, Chronicles Magazine, City Hall, culture, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Democritus, Eric Metaxas, information, John Zmirak, logos, Los Angeles, madness, materialism, mathematicians, meaning, personal finance, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Seattle, theism, values, West Coast}

Cultural Chaos Has Long Roots, Millennia Before Darwin

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2025

Culture, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As I’m writing this, some rioters have gathered (literally) across the street from our Seattle office, on their way to a “protest” at City Hall. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, antiquity, Apostle Paul, Aristotle, atomism, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, evolution, Francisco Ayala, Hippocrates, intelligent design, Lucretius, materialism, Modern Synthesis, natural processes, Neo-Darwinism, Plato, population genetics, Romans, Science and Faith in Dialogue, teleology}

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 9, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alphonse de Candolle, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Law of Correlation, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

_{Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, antiquity, Aristotle, atomism, Cambridge University, Darwinism, David Brown, David Hume, Enlightenment, evolution, fideism, Gospels, Headlong Hall, Judeo-Christian tradition, Meister Eckhart, Mendelian genetics, Middle Ages, New Testament, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Rudolf Otto, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Love Peacock, Victorians}

On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason

_{Neil Thomas
June 16, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity. 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, Harold Morowitz, 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

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

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 27, 2022

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, atomism, Chance and Necessity, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinism, David Hume, David Sedley, Epicurus, evolution, fear, human beings, Jacques Monod, Lucretius, natural selection, Richard Dawkins, theomachy}

The Ghost of Epicurus and the Doctrine of Natural Selection

_{Neil Thomas
January 27, 2022

Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, afterlife, atomism, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinian theory, demiurge, Epicurus, evolution, gods, Greek, Latin, Lucretius, materialism, Matthew Arnold, Victorians}

Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus

_{Neil Thomas
January 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Darwinism, when viewed from a philosophical perspective, might more accurately be understood as a late sub-branch of ancient speculative thought. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 12, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agnostics, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, down, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, George Eliot, HMS Beagle, London, Lucretius, Ludwig Feuerbach, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Naturphilosophie, world spirit}

Darwinian Theory: Science or Speculative Philosophy?

_{Neil Thomas
January 12, 2022

Evolution, Life Sciences

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Bottom line: Darwin did not have a single scrap of empirical fieldwork to document his conjectures. Read More ›