Tag: Charles Lyell | Page 4 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Lyell, complexity, fossils, heuristic, historical sciences, history, inference to the best explanation, information, intelligent design, paleontologists, plate tectonics, predictions, rocks, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), uniformitarianism}

What Is the Positive Case for Intelligent Design?

_{Casey Luskin
April 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Imagine that you took your 4x4 truck off-roading and you returned home with the truck covered in mud. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Down House, Emma Darwin, evolution, John Murray, Joseph Hooker, Journal of Researches, Linnean Society, On the Origin of Species, Peter Bowler, Quarterly Review, Southeast Asia, Whitwell Elwin}

Darwin’s Reticence: How on Earth Did the Origin of Species Ever Get Published?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 10, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Even Darwin would be aghast at what the world has made of a mere abstract that he was almost pathologically ambivalent about ever publishing. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 29, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Geology
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Charles Lyell, Darwinism, evolution, Great Britain, Isaac Newton, Lord Byron, mathematician, On the Origin of Species, uniformitarianism, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Newtonian Metanarrative

_{Neil Thomas
January 29, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Geology

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People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Geology
Life Sciences
Tagged
, catastrophism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, HMS Beagle, Homo sapiens, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), naturalists, Principles of Geology, speciation, species, transmutation, uniformitarianism}

Darwin’s John the Baptist

_{Neil Thomas
January 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Geology, Life Sciences

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Catastrophism viewed the planet as having been molded by forces far more powerful than any observable at the present day. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Devil, Greek gods, Heaven, Hell, HMS Beagle, Jesus Christ, John Milton, Joseph Hooker, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, religion, Satan, Scripture, spontaneous generation, Titan}

Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species

_{Neil Thomas
October 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
August 9, 2021

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Geology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Charles Lyell, earthquakes, evolution, First Cause, floods, God Hypothesis, intelligent design, James Croft, mind, naturalism, Prime Mover, programming, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, uniformitarianism}

Meyer vs. Croft: Vying for the Lyellian Mantle

_{Bethel McGrew
August 9, 2021

Biology, Faith & Science, Geology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Stephen Meyer has aligned himself in spirit with the geologist Charles Lyell, who explained geological features “by reference to causes now in operation." Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
August 6, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Lyell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Croatia, God Hypothesis, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, James Croft, Lydia McGrew, masks, philosophers, puppy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Substack}

God Hypothesis: The Problem of Background Knowledge

_{Bethel McGrew
August 6, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The wet-washcloth sensation of puppy tongue on baby cheeks is part of the baby’s evidence that Puppy exists. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 16, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Lyell, Darwinian evolution, Douglas Axe, Eugenie Scott, evolutionary biology, geologists, historical sciences, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Intelligent Design Uncensored, Jonathan Witt, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Planck time, specified complexity, specified information, Stephen Jay Gould, William A. Dembski}

Answering an Objection: “You Can’t Measure Intelligent Design”

_{Casey Luskin
July 16, 2021

Cosmology, Geology, Intelligent Design

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We test intelligent design in the same way that we test all historical scientific theories. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animals, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin Day, evolutionary racism, Frederick Douglass, freedom, humans, Ku Klux Klan, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

Frederick Douglass, Champion Abolitionist and Former Slave, on Evolutionary Racism

_{Michael Flannery
February 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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One wonders what kind of address Douglass would give on Darwin Day — falling tomorrow, February 12 — amidst Black History Month. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, Galen, ideology, intelligent evolution, Joseph Hooker, medicine, Overruling Intelligence, phlogiston, Quarterly Review, Science, The Malay Archipelago, X Club}

What We Can Learn from Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
November 11, 2020

Evolution

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We hear a lot of talk these days about “following the science.” But science rarely speaks with one unified voice. Read More ›