Tag: Cicero

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Author
Scott Powell

Date
April 22, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, astronomy, biology, Charles Darwin, Cicero, computer code, cosmology, creator, digital symbols, discovery, DNA, fine-tuning, Florence, galactic habitable zone, Galileo Galilei, history, intelligence, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Karl Marx, living cell, Medicis, mind, Nicolaus Copernicus, Periclean Athens, physics, programmer, progress, Robert Boyle, self-destruction, The Story of Everything, theism, Thomas Huxley, war, William Shakespeare, written language}

In the Sweep of History, Two Great Competing Stories

_{Scott Powell
April 22, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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We are on the threshold of greater discovery and flourishing than ever because of a quiet, but growing reconciliation between trust in science and trust in God. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 24, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, Archbishop Fénelon, atoms, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Christianity, Cicero, creator, culture, Declaration of Independence, Discovery Institute, endowed by our creator, faith and science, Founding, government, happiness, intelligence, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, John Adams, John Ray, John West, liberty, life, liturgy, natural philosophers, natural science, nature, pagans, philosophy, Psalms, race, revelation, Richard Blackmore, rights, Romans, Salvo Magazine, science, stars, Thomas Jefferson, universe}

John West: The Science Underlying the American Founding

_{David Klinghoffer
March 24, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Political Science

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Notice that Jefferson held this “without appeal to revelation.” That is, the study of nature alone was sufficient to produce “a conviction of design.” Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 9, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Algernon Sidney, Apostle Paul, Aristotle, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Cicero, College of Philadelphia, conscience, Declaration of Independence, Founders, George Washington, gravity, James Wilson, John Adams, John Calvin, John Locke, Martin Luther, Mere Christianity, Moral Law, Nature, reason, Richard Hooker, Romans, Supreme Court, Ten Commandments, The Abolition of Man, theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Jefferson, Two Treatises of Government, U.S. Constitution}

The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God

_{John G. West
March 9, 2026

Ethics, Faith & Science

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The “Laws of Nature” are those truths about reality that all well-formed human beings have access to through observation, reason, and conscience. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 15, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antony Flew, Barbara Forrest, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Cicero, creationism, creator, David dewolf, Edwards v. Aguillard, Eugenie Scott, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Fred Hoyle, intelligent agent, intelligent causes, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John E. Jones, John Haught, John West, Jonathan Witt, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Polanyi, molecular machines, New York Times, Of Pandas and People, Pennsylvania, philosophy, religion, Richard Dawkins, scientific method, Scott Minnich, Supreme Court, Ten Myths About Dover, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Thomas Aquinas, William Dembski, William Paley}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 7, “Showed ID Is ‘Religious’ and a Form of ‘Creationism’”

_{Casey Luskin
December 15, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Is intelligent design actually religious? Is it a form of Christianity? We can immediately see that it is not. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, George Eliot, history, HMS Beagle, intellectual history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Journal of Researches, literature, Lucretianism, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Misia Landau, Origin of Species, philosophy, Plato, Renaissance, seafaring, Tom Wolfe}

Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist: Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea

_{Neil Thomas
September 25, 2025

Arts, Evolution

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Today we would of course brand both Faust and the Alchemist fantasists or “mad scientists” of the first order. Was Darwin prone to such wishful thinking? Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, Charles Darwin, Cicero, constraints, cooption, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Coppedge, exaptation, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lucretius, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, natural philosophers, Neo-Darwinism, Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum, Stuart Kauffman}

Hello, Stuart Kauffman

_{Daniel Witt
January 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Revolution, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Cicero, Darwinism, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, faith and science, Friedrich Engels, Galen, Lucretius, Matt Ridley, natural selection, Plato, Taking Leave of Darwin, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus}

Three Thousand Years of Darwinism

_{Neil Thomas
December 23, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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I began to suspect that Darwinism was being taught at school in a somewhat philosophically decontextualized way, lacking historical background. 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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 3, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Zoology
Tagged
, Aristotle, cats, Cicero, digestion, Dogs, ethology, Galen, grass, indigenous peoples, intelligence, orangutan, Stanford University}

Animals Using Healing Plants? That’s Old News

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 3, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine, Zoology

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Recently, an orangutan who successfully treated a wound by applying chewed leaves to it touched off a worldwide media event. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›