orangutan Type post Author Michael Flannery Date September 12, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology Michael Flannery September 12, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design 16 Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›
Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury Type post Author Michael Flannery Date November 11, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, Galen, ideology, intelligent evolution, Joseph Hooker, medicine, Overruling Intelligence, phlogiston, physical chemistry, Quarterly Review, Science, The Malay Archipelago, X Club What We Can Learn from Darwin Michael Flannery November 11, 2020 Evolution 4 We hear a lot of talk these days about “following the science.” But science rarely speaks with one unified voice. Read More ›
Wallace-2 Type post Author Michael Flannery Date November 19, 2019 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Deborah Blum, demons, Duke of Argyll, Ernst Mayr, First Cause, Freeman Dyson, Ghost Hunters, Harvard University, John Magens Mello, Jonathan Wells, magicians, materialists, Nature's Prophet, spiritualism, Summa Theologica, T.H. Huxley, The Scientist as Rebel, The Screwtape Letters, The World of Life, Thomas Aquinas Why Nature’s Prophet Had to be Written Michael Flannery November 19, 2019 Evolution, Faith & Science 11 Wallace’s greatest “heresy” was to become, after his co-discovery of natural selection, “godfather” of the modern theory of intelligent design. Read More ›
orangutan Type post Author Michael Flannery Date August 14, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology Michael Flannery August 14, 2018 Evolution, Intelligent Design 16 In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin's principal failing in developing his theory. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date September 5, 2016 CategoriesHistory of SciencePhilosophy of Science Tagged , __tedited, Alfred North Whitehead, Cicero, complex specified information, Duke of Argyll, Etienne Gilson, form, limits of science, mind, natural theology, substance, Universal Design Intuition Intelligent Design, from Cicero to Kant Sarah Chaffee September 5, 2016 History of Science, Philosophy of Science 7 Darwin himself sought to overcome his own design intuition. Read More ›
