Tag: deism

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, atheism, Basil Willey, Brights, C. S. Lewis, causality, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christian Bandea, Daniel Dennett, Deborah Lavin, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, ineffable, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Leslie Stephen, Lisbon earthquake, logomachia, Louise Mabille, Marcus du Sautoy, Meister Eckhart, Moses Maimonides, natural selection, negative theology, New Atheists, Newtonianism, Noam Chomsky, Peter Vorzimmer, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Robin Le Poidevin, Sextus Empiricus, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, The above consideration, Thomas Aquinas, truth, tsunami, Unmoved Mover, via negativa, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg, wortelos, wortlos}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›

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Date
March 22, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, astrobiologists, Casey Luskin, clock-maker, Cosmic Habitable Age, deism, designer, fine-tuning, fingernails, galactic habitable zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jay Richards, podcast, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Stephen Dedalus, The Privileged Planet, theism}

Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism?

_{Science and Culture
March 22, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Asa Gray, cats, Charles Lyell, Darwin Mythology, deism, designer, history, mice, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, variations}

Is It a Myth That Darwin Rejected Design?

_{Richard Weikart
December 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Deism is the idea that God created the cosmos and its natural laws, but thereafter did not intervene with miraculous events. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, afterlife, cosmos, deism, intelligent design, meaning, mind, obedience, Paul Davies, purpose, religious traditions, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, soul}

Deism and the Afterlife: Cosmologist Paul Davies Outlines His Views

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Paul Davies argues that we’re not at the center of the attention of a God who is specifically concerned with us. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 8, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, boxing, Bryan Callen, Charles Darwin, comedians, conversation, deism, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Shermer, origin of the universe, pantheism, phantom field, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, theism, Wales}

Friendly Sparring, Verbal and Otherwise, on a Recent Episode of The Bryan Callen Show

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 8, 2023

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The result is the type of interaction we’re secretly craving — energetic conversation between people with differing views but who demonstrate mutual respect. Read More ›

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Date
March 16, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrobiologists, Casey Luskin, Cosmic Habitable Age, cosmos, deism, designer, fingernails, galactic habitable zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, James Joyce, podcast, Science and Faith in Dialogue, The Privileged Planet, theism}

Cosmic Fine-Tuning: A Look at the Implications

_{Science and Culture
March 16, 2023

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnostic, atheism, Big Bang, Christianity, deism, Deity, intelligent design, Judaism, Judeo-Christian tradition, pantheism, physical existence, Return of the God Hypothesis, revelation, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer, Charlie Kirk: Return of WHAT God Hypothesis?

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science

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A listener says he is not an atheist, but an agnostic, and evidently a searcher. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, consciousness, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, On the Origin of Species, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe}

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 28, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Bible, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Christianity, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, deism, demythologization, Enlightenment, evolution, faith, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig Feuerbach, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Wilberforce, secularization, The Essence of Christianity, Thucydides}

For Darwin, Timing Was Everything

_{Neil Thomas
January 28, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
September 8, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, "leap of faith", Abraham, Apostle Paul, Bill Gates, biological machines, Christianity, Darwinism, deism, evolutionary theory, Genesis, Howard J. Van Till, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, Judaism, microscopes, Microsoft, miracles, modern science, omnipotence, Psalms, Revelation (book of), Romans, theism, theistic evolution}

Theistic Darwinism’s “Fully Gifted” Creation Theology Contradicts Itself, and Science

_{Jonathan Witt
September 8, 2020

Faith & Science

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Theistic evolutionists treat God as time-bound when it suits their argument, and beyond time when it suits their argument. Read More ›