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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Cicero, common sense, David Hume, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, Geoffrey Chaucer, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Lucretius, materialism, natural selection, Plato, Victorian England}

How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin: A Coda

_{Neil Thomas
November 15, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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After seeing my recent book through to publication, I began to experience a certain gnawing feeling. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, atomism, Charles Darwin, creation, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Greek gods, intelligent design, Lucretius, Romans}

Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate

_{Neil Thomas
August 5, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction. Read More ›

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Date
February 28, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, David Hume, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Logan Gage, natural theology, natural world, philosophers, William Paley}

Jay Richards: A Look Back at Paley and Hume

_{Science and Culture
February 28, 2021

Intelligent Design

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Dr. Richards addresses David Hume’s critique of analogical arguments like those used by William Paley. Read More ›

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Date
December 7, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, David Hume, determinism, free will, ID the Future, initial conditions, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mike Keas, natural law, podcast, Sabine Hossenfelder, Science, universe, William Shakespeare}

Determinism: A “Bizarre Position” Held by Scientists “with Great Confidence”

_{Science and Culture
December 7, 2020

Physical Sciences, Physics

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If it’s true, then all one says or thinks — right or wrong, true or false — was determined some 13.8 billion years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 27, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, creator, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, John Ray, Kenneth Miller, mosquitos, religion, Robert Chambers, scientists, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, universe}

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 27, 2020

Evolution

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Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 22, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, brains, David Hume, determinism, evolution, free will, humans, illusion, knowledge, laws of nature, miracles, particles, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Sabine Hossenfelder, St. Paul, theoretical physics, truth}

Determinism: Smart People and an Absurd Claim

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 22, 2020

Physical Sciences

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Why should Sabine Hossenfelder think for a moment that anything that occurs to her has any correspondence to truth? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 29, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Cicero, common sense, cosmological argument, David Hume, Evolution News, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Barham, Jay Richards, metaethics, Michael Denton, natural theology, Plato, podcast, realism, Scotland, teleology, The Miracle of the Cell, University of Glasgow}

Thomas Reid — Recovering Another ID Ancestor

_{David Klinghoffer
September 29, 2020

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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“There’s little doubt in my mind that Reid if he were alive today would be part of the intelligent design movement.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
August 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Clarence Darrow, Dante, Darwinian theory, David Hume, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, J.B.S. Haldane, Jacques Maritain, John Dewey, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Malcolm Muggeridge, Marxists, Michael Polanyi, Pierre Duhem, Social Darwinism, T.S. Eliot, That Hideous Strength, William Jennings Bryan, William Shakespeare, Yuval Harari}

That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
August 16, 2020

Bioethics

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The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›

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Date
November 28, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, cosmic fine-tuning, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Edinburgh, Flying Spaghetti Monster, instinct, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life, natural theology, physicists, rationality, Richard Dawkins, software, universe, vitalism, watchmaker}

Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

_{Science and Culture
November 28, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 1, 2018

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

The Outsider: Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

_{Michael Flannery
August 1, 2018

Evolution, History of Science

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As I asked in a previous post: Why is Alfred Russel Wallace today a comparatively little known figure next to Darwin? Read More ›