Tag: Edinburgh

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abrahamic religions, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, brain, Charles Darwin, Corinthians, Darwinism (book), Edinburgh, Ernst Haeckel, frenemies, Genesis, George Romanes, Harvard University, historiography, human consciousness, Jacques Barzun, John Lukacs, Man’s Place in the Universe, materialism, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, Notebook C, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Psalms, Romans, Scripture, Social Environment and Moral Progress, teleology, The American Scholar, The Wedge of Truth, The World of Life}

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

_{Michael Flannery
October 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Cornelius Hunter, Darwin’s God, Edinburgh, evolutionary theory, Janet Browne, John Murray, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, neo-Darwinian synthesis, positivism, Robert Edmond Grant, Ternate, theology}

Devil’s Chaplain: Evolution as a “Theological Research Program”

_{Michael Flannery
September 10, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

5}

This stands the standard historiography and received wisdom concerning the development of modern evolutionary theory on its head. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 12, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Adrian Desmond, Africa, Allison Hopper, anti-racism, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Edinburgh, Emma Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Harriet Martineau, human origins, James Moore, Racism, slavery, slaves, The Descent of Man, Victorian England}

The Casual Racism of Charles Darwin

_{Robert Shedinger
July 12, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

5}

It is certainly startling to see the N-word cropping up in Darwin’s letters, but this is not the only place. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 24, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, David Klinghoffer, David Quammen, Edinburgh, evolution, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harriet Martineau, John Murray, materialists, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Paul Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, rhetoric, The Descent of Man, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, transmutation}

Darwin’s Origin of Species — Some Historical Reflections 160 Years Later

_{Michael Flannery
November 24, 2019

Evolution

6}

Surely the “iconic” status of Darwin’s book could never have been predicted by either the author or his publisher. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 20, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Abrahamic religions, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, brain, Charles Darwin, Corinthians, Darwinism (book), Edinburgh, Ernst Haeckel, frenemies, Genesis, George Romanes, Harvard University, historiography, human consciousness, Jacques Barzun, John Lukacs, Man’s Place in the Universe, materialism, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, Notebook C, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Psalms, Romans, Scripture, Social Environment and Moral Progress, teleology, The American Scholar, The Wedge of Truth, The World of Life}

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

_{Michael Flannery
November 20, 2019

Evolution, Faith & Science

7}

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›

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post

Date
November 28, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, Boltzmann brains, Charles Darwin, Cleanthes, clockmaker, cosmic fine-tuning, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Edinburgh, Flying Spaghetti Monster, instinct, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life, natural theology, Philo, 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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post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, Edinburgh, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Herbert Spencer, history, James Moore, Linnean Society, Loren Eiseley, Plinian Society, Robert Brown, Robert Edmond Grant}

A.N. Wilson’s Charles Darwin — A Sense of Déjà Vu

_{Michael Flannery
December 20, 2017

Evolution

5}

Factual errors aside, the problem is I’ve heard all this before. Read More ›