2560px-En_attendant_Godot,_Festival_d'Avignon,_1978_f22 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 4, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsEvolution Tagged , Aldous Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alice in Wonderland, atheism, behaviorism, Caligula, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, cosmogony, David Berlinski, Freudianism, Lewis Carroll, Madame Blavatsky, Marxism, multiverse, On the Origin of Species, quantum fluctuation, Richard Dawkins, theistic Darwinism, Theory of Everything, Theosophy, Tom Wolfe, Universal Darwinism, Victorians Existentialist Science: Darwin as Proto-Absurdist Neil Thomas November 4, 2024 Bioethics, Evolution 16 The existentialist story might arguably start with Charles Darwin and his conception of the chance evolution of life. Read More ›
black hole Type post Author Guillermo Gonzalez Date September 12, 2024 CategoriesCosmologyIntelligent DesignPhysical SciencesTechnology Tagged , Anthropic Principle, black holes, cosmogony, Cosmological Natural Selection, elements, evolution, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, intelligent life, Jay Richards, Lee Smolin, life, planets, scientific discovery, silicon, stars, superconductivity, The Privileged Planet, universes Were We Made to Make Black Holes? Guillermo Gonzalez September 12, 2024 Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology 9 I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Read More ›
Ralph Waldo Emerson Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 6, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsFaith & Science Tagged , Bible, Christianity, cosmogony, earth, Heaven, Hell, hierophany, Matthew Arnold, Mircea Eliade, poetry, romanticism, Rudolf Otto, The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series) Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad Neil Thomas November 6, 2022 Bioethics, Faith & Science 3 In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Read More ›
Asa Gray Type post Author Neil Thomas Date August 25, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionScience Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, cosmogony, evolution, Glen Roy, Harvard University, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Louis Agassiz, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Platonic forms, Robert Chambers, United States Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin Comes to America Neil Thomas August 25, 2022 Evolution, Science 5 A less class-bound kind of protectiveness was shown to Darwin in the United States by Professor Asa Gray of Harvard University. Read More ›
cafe-darwin-jannik-2400x1672 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date August 18, 2022 CategoriesCosmologyEvolutionHuman ExceptionalismLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Big Bang, Bonfire of the Vanities, cosmogony, Genesis, Headlong Hall, homologies, ideology, language, Michelangelo’s David, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, Oxford English Dictionary, perverse incentives, phrenology, Richard Lewontin, Steady State, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Theory of Everything, Thomas Love Peacock, Tom Wolfe Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery Neil Thomas August 18, 2022 Cosmology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 14 A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›
