Tag: Enlightenment | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, American Astronomical Society, Darwinism, defining id, defining science, defining terms, definist fallacy, Enlightenment, evolution, fear mongering, gravity, intelligent design, Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis? (tribute series), Isaac Newton, materialism, Myth of the Dark Ages, naturalism, Nature (journal), peer review, pseudoscience, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn}

Theory in Crisis? Redefining Science

_{Jonathan Wells
September 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Scientific revolutions are often marked by disputes over the “standard that distinguishes a real scientific solution from a mere metaphysical speculation.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Enlightenment, evil, John Henry Newman, John Herschel, John Milton, John Ray, methodological naturalism, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, problem of pain, suffering, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, theodicy, William Paley}

Darwin and the Problem of Pain

_{Neil Thomas
September 11, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›

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Date
August 5, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, assisted suicide, death, despair, Discovery Institute Press, Enlightenment, euthanasia, Greeks, history, Howard Glicksman, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, materialism, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Peter Singer, Richard Weikart, Socrates, suffering, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

How Did We Get Here? New Book by Richard Weikart Tracks Rise of the Culture of Death

_{Science & Culture
August 5, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

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The Judeo-Christian tradition encouraged a culture of life, but the secular Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a different direction. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, childhood, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary psychology, Greek gods, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Martin Luther, Misia Landau, Robert Chambers, Samuel Haughton, Stephen Jay Gould, telos, Thomas Huxley, William Wordsworth}

Darwin’s Science and Storytelling

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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His five-year voyage was undoubtedly an eye-opening rite of passage but perhaps not as foundational to his intellectual development as is sometimes proposed. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Euripides, gods, Judeo-Christian tradition, mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, secularism, theodicy}

Poet and Scientist, Goethe Offered an Enlightenment Theodicy

_{Neil Thomas
April 18, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Asia, atheism, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, First Cause, fundamentalism, Garden of Eden, God Hypothesis, Higher Criticism, Lamarckian theory, Louis Agassiz, On the Origin of Species, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Richard Dawkins, Richard Swinburne, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Uncertainty Principle, Victorian England, William James, William Lane Craig}

Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate

_{Neil Thomas
March 13, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley threw down the gauntlet for what was effectively to become the great Victorian dispute about religious faith. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 16, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Bertrand Russell, bias, C.S. Lewis, causation, Darwinian evolution, determinism, Enlightenment, evolution, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, libertarian free will, logic, Miracles (book), North Korea, rigor, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William A. Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson}

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

_{David Coppedge
January 16, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, China, Christianity, Civil War, Enlightenment, Evangelical Christians, image of God, Native Americans, Rodney Stark, slavery, United States}

Slavery and the Image of God

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 17, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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America is the only country on Earth to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in a war to end slavery. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Physics
Science Education
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Christianity, Discovery Institute, education, educators, Enlightenment, faith and science, God's Grandeur, integration, intelligent design, jesus, John Henry Newman, Logan Gage, Roman Catholic, schools, scientific materialism}

Teaching Intelligent Design to Revitalize Catholic Education

_{Brian Miller
August 14, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Physics, Science Education

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Many Christian schools teach the same curriculum that secular schools do with some added religious flavoring. Read More ›