Tag: Bertrand Russell

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Author
Charles Thaxton

Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, apes, bacteria, Bertrand Russell, Bible, California, carbon, Center for Science and Culture, chauvinism, consciousness, Declaration of Human Rights, Declaration of Independence, DNA, dolphins, endowed by our creator, human rights, John Lilly, John West, language, legal protection, Leon Kass, moral crisis, Science (journal), solar system, Thomas Jukes, United Nations, United States, Yale University, zoo}

On Our 250th Anniversary, There Is a Battle for America’s Soul

_{Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
July 2, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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While some researchers have "personified" their apes, others have mechanized their concept of man. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, beginning, Bertrand Russell, Big Bang, Cambridge University, Christianity, cosmology, creator, designer, despair, faith and science, Hoover Institution, James Tour, john lennox, monotheism, Peter Robinson, philosophers, scientists, Singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theaters, theism, universe, Why I Am Not a Christian}

Lennox, Meyer, Tour, Robinson: The Science of Monotheism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The indefinite article is emphatically in the singular. In all those statements, there was only one beginning. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, China, cooperation, COVID-19, Denis Noble, Erasmus Darwin, eugenics, evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joana Xavier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Marxism, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, Peter Corning, Stuart Kauffman, UNESCO, 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, 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

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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

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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, eukaryotes, evolution, foresight, genes, genetic code, intelligent design, Michael Behe, multicellularity, natural selection, No Free Lunch, Peter Corning, proteins, random variation, RNA, sexual reproduction, 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, elementary particles, eternity, humans, Nick Bostrom, 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, C.S. Lewis, causation, Darwinian evolution, determinism, Enlightenment, evolution, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, libertarian free will, logic, Miracles (book), 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, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

_{Science & 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 ›