Tag: Baruch Spinoza

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 29, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baruch Spinoza, Christian practice, Christianity Today, civilization, cultural Christianity, Douglas Adams, Elon Musk, FaithIt, god of the philosophers, Jordan Peterson, Mona Lisa, Piss Christ, religion of curiosity, Richard Dawkins, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Tom Holland}

To Save Civilization, Will “Cultural Christianity” Suffice?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 29, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Elon Musk told Jordan Peterson that he is a cultural Christian in an interview broadcast on X last July. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Baruch Spinoza, Casey Luskin, Cosmos reboot, Flat Earth myth, Galileo Galilei, history of science, humanity, ID the Future, Inquisition, Judaism, Michael Keas, Myth of the Dark Ages, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcast, revisionist history, Science and Faith in Dialogue, theology, universe}

Examining the Legacy of Baruch Spinoza in the History of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 2, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Join host and geologist Casey Luskin and historian of science Michael Keas for a lively conversation puncturing a series of anti-Christian myths. 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

5}

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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Author
Jean-Pierre Luminet

Date
May 7, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Baruch Spinoza, Edwin Hubble, galaxies, Georges Lemaître, German, Mount Wilson Observatory, quantum mechanics, static universe}

When Einstein Met Lemaître

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
May 7, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Einstein’s response shows the same unwillingness to change his position: he accepted the mathematics, but not a physically expanding universe. Read More ›

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Date
March 23, 2023

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Baruch Spinoza, Casey Luskin, Christianity, conflict myth, Cosmos (series), faith, flat earth, Galileo Galilei, ID the Future, Inquisition, Judaism, Judeo-Christian tradition, Michael Keas, Myth of the Dark Ages, podcast}

Puncturing the Science-Faith Warfare Myth

_{Science and Culture
March 23, 2023

Culture, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

1}

In abandoning his traditional Jewish faith, was Baruch Spinoza able to provide an improved framework for doing science? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, atomists, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Christian de Duve, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Erasmus Darwin, logos, magical thinking, philosophers, Simon Powell, supernatural, Thomas Malthus}

Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking

_{Neil Thomas
March 6, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Life Sciences

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Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alec Ryrie, Arthur Schopenhauer, atheism, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Darwinism, David Hume, doubt, evolution, faith, intellectuals, Ludwig Feuerbach, Mrs. Humphry Ward, novels, On the Origin of Species, Oxford, Robert Elsmere, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

_{Neil Thomas
March 2, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

4}

As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 24, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, “consensus science”, atheism, Baruch Spinoza, COVID-19, Darwinian materialism, Humanize, intelligent design, mainstream media, materialism, Michael Medved, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Lewontin, Salon, Stephen Meyer, Steven Pinker, Thanksgiving, Wesley Smith}

Thanksgiving and the Frailty of Scientific Atheism

_{David Klinghoffer
November 24, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism

4}

Our bioethicist colleague Wesley Smith had a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation with Stephen Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 22, 2021

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, brain, cerebral cortex, consciousness, evolution, Jerry Coyne, Mark Solms, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, physicalism, robots, Science Uprising, The Hidden Spring, Thomas Aquinas}

Where and What Is Consciousness?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 22, 2021

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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If humans are just “robots made of meat,” then the seat of consciousness ought to be locatable somewhere in the brain. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 21, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Baruch Spinoza, Bible, Cosmos 3.0, Evolution News, Giordano Bruno, ID the Future, Jerry Coyne, Michael Keas, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New Atheists, pantheism, public education, Richard Dawkins, The Privileged Planet, Unbelievable}

Clever Move — Cosmos Pushes Pantheism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 21, 2020

Faith & Science

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Easier for slipping it into the public schools! It won't alarm the parents nearly as much as an all-out siege on theism. Very clever, Dr. Tyson. Read More ›