Tag: David Hume

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Larry Sanger

Date
December 23, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Albert Einstein, argument from ignorance, benevolence, Big Bang, Christianity, complexity, constants, David Hume, designer, faith, intelligent design, logos, matter, natural laws, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, universe, William Lane Craig}

No. 10 Story for 2025: Wikipedia Co-Founder on Arguments for God

_{Larry Sanger
December 23, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, who presented versions of the cosmological argument and the fine-tuning argument. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, atheism, Barry Arrington, Big Bang, chaos, Christianity, Colorado, Columbine High School, cosmic fine-tuning, Daniel Dennett, Darwin on Trial, David Hume, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Enlightenment, evidence, Evolution News, Francis Collins, Friedrich Nietzsche, intelligent design, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., materialism, Michael Behe, On the Origin of Species, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, Supreme Court, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, theistic evolution, tribalism, Uncommon Descent, Unforgetting God, University of Texas, Voltaire, Western civilization, William A. Dembski}

Interview: New Book Advances Skepticism as a Solution to Materialist Ideology

_{William A. Dembski
June 9, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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"The book's cover features Friedrich Nietzsche and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn holding opposite ends of a rope as they play tug of war for the soul of the West." Read More ›

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Author
Larry Sanger

Date
February 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Albert Einstein, argument from ignorance, benevolence, Big Bang, Christianity, complexity, constants, David Hume, designer, faith, intelligent design, logos, matter, natural laws, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, universe, William Lane Craig}

Re-Examining the Arguments for the Existence of God

_{Larry Sanger
February 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Technology

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I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science and well-known apologist Stephen Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 21, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy of Science
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, David Hume, Doug Monroe, evolutionary process, ID the Future, intelligent design, laws of nature, miracles, podcast, Praxis Circle, Return of the God Hypothesis, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Do Miracles Violate the Laws of Physics?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 21, 2024

Faith & Science, Philosophy of Science, Physics

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Philosopher of science Stephen Meyer thinks David Hume’s argument against miracles is weak. 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
Michael Flannery

Date
November 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwinian, David Hume, evolution, history, John Elof Boodin, John Herschel, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Overruling Intelligence, Quarterly Review, scientism, St. George Mivart, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, transmutation, William James, William Whewell, X Club}

The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

_{Michael Flannery
November 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered? Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinesin, matter, mind, molecular machines, Natural Theology (book), nature, philosophers, William Paley}

Reconsidering David Hume’s Critique of Design Thinking

_{Robert Shedinger
July 12, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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There is no sense in which we can say that Hume destroyed the intellectual coherence of design thinking. William Paley could already see this in 1802. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 19, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, automation, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, circulation, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, heart, Howard Glicksman, innovation, intelligent design, Lucretius, Michael Denton, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Paul Davies, physiology, prosthetics, Steve Laufmann}

On the Miracles of Physiological Design

_{Neil Thomas
January 19, 2023

Anatomy, Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science

12}

The book under review is a splendid and uniquely well-informed contribution to the debate about what is by all indices a theory in possibly terminal crisis. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

_{Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

16}

It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›