Tag: Charles Lyell

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 15, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ambivalence, Ann Gauger, biological complexity, biology, Charles Lyell, chemical evolution, common descent, Darwinian evolution, Duke of Argyll, evolution, First Things, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Michael Chaberek, human body, human life, infraction, Judaism, natural selection, nature, Neil Thomas, On the Genesis of Species, origin of life, Richard Owen, Roman Catholic Church, Science and Culture Today, scientists, slovenliness, St. George Mivart, Stephen M. Barr, theology, universal common descent, vera causa}

Catholicism and “Evolution,” Whatever That Means

_{David Klinghoffer
January 15, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

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In the book review by Stephen Barr, I count 66 mentions of “evolution” and not one of “Darwinian evolution.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Historical Sciences
Tagged
, chance, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, domestication, John Herschel, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, natural forces, natural law, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, quantum mechanics, randomness, Samuel Haughton, St. George Mivart, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Whewell}

A Matter of Insinuation: Chance in Darwin’s Theory

_{Neil Thomas
November 10, 2025

Evolution, Historical Sciences

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Think of a rock dislodged by happenstance, tumbling down a mountain, and coming to rest in some particular spot. 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, Duke of Argyll, Epicureanism, evolution, Fleeming Jenkin, Inkwell Press, James Barham, Lucretianism, 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
William A. Dembski

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bats, biological origins, books, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, convergence, Darwinists, development, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, excommunication, growth, humans, Inkwell Press, John Henry Newman, monographs, natural selection, On the Genesis of Species, Roman Catholics, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley}

An 1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch

_{William A. Dembski
September 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A new series aims to restore a historically honest balance to the debate over evolution and design in the study of biological origins. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, atheism, Basil Willey, Brights, C. S. Lewis, causality, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Daniel Dennett, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Lisbon earthquake, Meister Eckhart, natural selection, New Atheists, Noam Chomsky, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, Thomas Aquinas, truth, Unmoved Mover, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Allan Bloom, Anaxagoras, Biochemical Predestination, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, Dean Kenyon, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, Guillermo Gonzalez, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, Lord Byron, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Michael Polanyi, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Percy Shelley, Plato, Return of the God Hypothesis, RNA, Roger Olsen, Shannon information, Signature in the Cell, spaghetti, specified complexity, spontaneous generation, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, uniformitarianism, Walter Bradley}

Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2025

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›

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Author
Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce

Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algae, animals, cats, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, descendants, Dogs, elephants, England, flies, grasses, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joseph Hooker, Lucretius, mites, mosses, mushrooms, natural history, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, propositions, Quarterly Review, reasoning, Thomas Henry Huxley, variations, whales, worms}

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Excerpts from Samuel Wilberforce on Darwin

_{Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce
April 7, 2025

Botany, Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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"We have objected to the views with which we have been dealing solely on scientific grounds." 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
Neil Thomas

Date
September 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Enlightenment, evil, John Henry Newman, John Herschel, John Milton, John Ray, methodological naturalism, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, problem of pain, suffering, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, theodicy, William Paley}

Darwin and the Problem of Pain

_{Neil Thomas
September 11, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Marshall, Darwin's Doubt, dialogue, epigenetic information, Eric Davidson, evo-devo, evolution, Evolution News, genes, intelligent design, phenotype, Stephen Meyer, The Joe Rogan Experience, transmutation}

On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer

_{Casey Luskin
July 25, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Mutations in genes that affect body plan characteristics don’t lead to new body plans — they lead to dead embryos. Read More ›