Tag: Democritus

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antiquity, atomism, biologists, chaos, Charles Darwin, Chronicles Magazine, City Hall, culture, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Democritus, Eric Metaxas, information, John Zmirak, logos, Los Angeles, madness, materialism, mathematicians, meaning, personal finance, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Seattle, theism, values, West Coast}

Cultural Chaos Has Long Roots, Millennia Before Darwin

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2025

Culture, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As I’m writing this, some rioters have gathered (literally) across the street from our Seattle office, on their way to a “protest” at City Hall. Read More ›

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Author
Logan Paul Gage

Date
April 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, atomists, Benjamin Wiker, Church Fathers, Democritus, Douglas Axe, Epicurus, evolution, God's Grandeur, intelligent design, James Sinclair, Jonathan Witt, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, New Atheists, Plato, Robin Collins, Roman Catholic, Scopes Monkey Trial, Scripture, Socrates, Stephen Meyer, stereotypes, William Lane Craig}

Understanding Design Arguments: An Introduction for Catholics

_{Logan Paul Gage
April 24, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics

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What ID denies is that every feature of nature is the product of natural forces all the way down. This commitment is necessarily shared by Catholics. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 16, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Ecology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alasdair MacIntyre, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, creation, de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, Democritus, energy production, error correction, imago Dei, information processing, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, James Tour, materialism, molecules, natural law, Plato, Pope Francis, redemption, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholic, scientific revolution, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, stewardship, teleology, University of Notre Dame}

Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design

_{Brian Miller
November 16, 2022

Cosmology, Ecology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, David Hull, Democritus, Edward Blyth, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Law of Correlation, Linnaean Society, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Irvine}

Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
May 20, 2022

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrophysicists, atheism, bioengineering, brain, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, cytology, demiurge, Democritus, Denis Diderot, earth, Erasmus Darwin, human eye, humankind, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, natural selection, nature, Paul Davies, philosophes, physiology, Plato, purpose, teleology, The Miracle of Man, theism, William Paley}

In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

_{Neil Thomas
May 20, 2022

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences

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In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
May 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, atomism, Bridgewater Treatises, Chance and Necessity, Darwinism, Democritus, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Wald, Harold Morowitz, imago Dei, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, Lawrence Henderson, materialism, natural selection, pre-Socratic philosophers, Stephen Jay Gould, Stone Age, The Fitness of the Environment, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, Western civilization}

How We Moved Beyond Darwin to the Miracle of Man

_{Michael Denton
May 11, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The extraordinary ensembles of natural environmental fitness described in my book are thoroughly documented scientific facts. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 15, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Anaxagoras, ancient Greeks, Aristotle, atheism, atomists, body plans, Christianity, cognition, demiurge, Democritus, evolutionary theory, idealism, intelligent design, materialism, Mr. Potato Head, natural selection, Plato, purposefulness, Scott Turner, Socrates}

Scott Turner Explains Philosophical Traditions Shaping Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 15, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Turner classifies the intelligent design movement as a resurgence of Platonic idealism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 31, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, At the Mountains of Madness, atheism, Darwinism, Democritus, dinosaur, Epicurus, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fiction, H.P. Lovecraft, Halloween, horror, Kenneth Miller, mollusk, octopuses, Simon Conway Morris, Ten Commandments, theistic evolution}

Halloween Offering: H.P. Lovecraft Versus Theistic Evolutionists

_{David Klinghoffer
October 31, 2018

Faith & Science

6}

Play the videotape of evolutionary history back again and Ken Miller imagines you get a charming brainy creature for God to play with — something lovable and admirable. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 31, 2017

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, At the Mountains of Madness, atheism, Darwinism, Democritus, dinosaur, Epicurus, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fiction, H.P. Lovecraft, horror, Kenneth Miller, mollusk, octopuses, Simon Conway Morris, Ten Commandments, theistic evolution}

H.P. Lovecraft Versus Theistic Evolutionists

_{David Klinghoffer
October 31, 2017

Faith & Science

6}

My argument here is not with Kenneth Miller's science but with his imagination. Read More ›