Tag: Bertrand Russell

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Alan Rayner, Albert Einstein, Antón Barba-Kay, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, China, cooperation, COVID-19, Cultural Revolution, Denis Noble, Erasmus Darwin, eugenics, evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joana Xavier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Marxism, mutationism, N. S. Lyons, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, orthogenesis, Peter Corning, Stuart Kauffman, Synergism Hypothesis, UNESCO, world government, Zeitgeist}

Nature in the Image of Man: Introducing the New Social Darwinism

_{Daniel Witt
June 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

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Always, the initial social/intellectual change has come first, and the scientific paradigm shift has followed after. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, Carl Woese, causation, cells, Chance and Necessity, David Hume, dispositionalism, Evolution News, final cause, intentionality, Isaac Newton, Jacques Monod, Michael Behe, organelle, powers ontology, purpose, René Descartes, science of purpose, telos, The Design Inference, Walter Elsasser, William A. Dembski}

Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 12, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 16, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alister McGrath, Bertrand Russell, Cambridge University, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Cicero, intelligent design, John Ray, multiverse, natural theology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Plato, Richard Dawkins, St. Augustine, universe, William Paley, Zeitgeist}

On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation

_{Neil Thomas
July 16, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

10}

The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset, Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, chromosomes, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, DNA, emperor penguins, eukaryotes, evolution, foresight, genes, genetic code, Grand Unified Theory, intelligent design, Michael Behe, multicellularity, natural selection, No Free Lunch, Peter Corning, proteins, random variation, RNA, self-replicating molecules, sexual reproduction, synergistic selection, synergy, The Design Inference, turtles, William A. Dembski}

Synergies All the Way Down

_{Daniel Witt
April 10, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan Turing, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, Bertrand Russell, California, Christianity, computational power, David Hilbert, elementary particles, eternity, Gregory of Nyssa, humans, Marvin Minsky, Nick Bostrom, oscillating universe, Ray Kurzweil, The Design Inference, theology}

Artificial General Intelligence: Digital vs. Traditional Immortality

_{William A. Dembski
February 1, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gregory of Nyssa taught that eternity for humanity is an unending progression in the knowledge of God. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial intelligence, Bertrand Russell, chess, Elon Musk, environments, Los Angeles, machines, Robert J. Marks II, self-driving cars, software, Tesla, West Virginia}

Artificial General Intelligence: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

_{William A. Dembski
January 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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The worry is — and it’s a legitimate worry — that our environments will increasingly be altered to accommodate AI. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 16, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Bertrand Russell, bias, Big Brother, C.S. Lewis, causation, clinical psychology, Darwinian evolution, determinism, Enlightenment, epistemic virtues, evolution, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, libertarian free will, logic, Miracles (book), Nicholas Caputo, North Korea, rigor, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William A. Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson}

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

_{David Coppedge
January 16, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. 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

2}

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
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bertrand Russell, biomolecules, chemical reactions, form, function, life, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, observation, organic molecules, organisms, paradigm, random mutation, science of purpose, structure, theory, urea, vitalism}

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, creator, faith, Francisco Ayala, Frederik van Niekerk, humanity, intellectuals, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, natural selection, Nico Vorster, NOMA, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert Boyle, Science and Faith in Dialogue, soul, William of Ockham, worldview}

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 4, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Epistemology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics

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For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›