Tag: Enlightenment | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, creation, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Erwin Schrödinger, giraffes, Homo sapiens, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckian theory, micromutations, natural preservation, natural selection, nature, Nick Lane, On the Origin of Species, quantum physics, Stanford University, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, University of Chicago Press, William Paley, William Shakespeare}

Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?

_{Neil Thomas
June 19, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 11, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, American Astronomical Society, Biophysical Society, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Enlightenment, evolution, gravity, Harvey Lodish, intelligent design, Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis? (series), Isaac Newton, materialism, Modern Age, Myth of the Dark Ages, Nature (journal), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, Walther Nernst}

Theory in Crisis? Redefining Science

_{Jonathan Wells
October 11, 2022

Evolution, 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
October 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Brights, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Max Planck, New Atheists, quantum weirdness, superstition, Werner Heisenberg, worldview}

Darwin and the Loss of the Enlightenment Paradigm

_{Neil Thomas
October 6, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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As a plethora of books, articles, and TV programs have recently intoned, our almost complete ignorance of the nature of ultimate reality has been laid bare. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, creation, E Conchis Omnia, Enlightenment, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, French Revolution, Jacques Monod, John Milton, Lucretius, New Atheists, Paradise Lost, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, spontaneous generation, theodicy, Thomas Paine}

Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Consideration of Erasmus Darwin’s writings suggests that his unbelief could well have been father to the thought in the matter of his evolutionary speculations. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
August 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science
Tagged
, A Leg to Stand On, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Charles Thaxton, Charles University, Czech Republic, Dallas, David Hume, DNA, Douglas Axe, England, Enlightenment, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Guillermo Gonzalez, information, information theory, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Paul Nelson, Phillip E. Johnson, Prague, Roger Olsen, Russell Doolittle, Stephen Meyer, Texas, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, UC San Diego, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton

_{Stephen C. Meyer
August 11, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science

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It is my privilege and honor to recommend this fascinating autobiography — which is also perhaps the least I can do to repay a friend and mentor. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, antiquity, Aristotle, atomism, Cambridge University, Darwinism, David Brown, David Hume, Enlightenment, evolution, fideism, Gospels, Headlong Hall, Judeo-Christian tradition, Meister Eckhart, Mendelian genetics, Middle Ages, New Testament, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Rudolf Otto, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Love Peacock, Victorians}

On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason

_{Neil Thomas
June 16, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity. Read More ›

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Author
Kenneth Feucht

Date
March 26, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, assisted suicide, beauty, COVID-19, creativity, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, death, embryo, Enlightenment, euthanasia, evolution, free speech, ingenuity, intelligence, John West, medicine, New York Times, physicians, speech, Terri Shiavo, theology, totalitarian science, unborn}

Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America

_{Kenneth Feucht
March 26, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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The afterword, on “Totalitarian Science,” published in 2015, shows John West as a prophet of things to come. 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
Neil Thomas

Date
January 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Cicero, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Galen, intelligent design, Lucretius, Mind of God, Phoenix, Plato, pre-Socratic philosophers, Stoics, Thomas Aquinas, Weltanschauung}

The Enlightenment (Re)turn to Atomism

_{Neil Thomas
January 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, animism, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, evolution, Hesiod, James Le Fanu, Mary Midgley, materialistic science, natural selection, natural theology, Neo-Darwinism, Odysseus, On the Origin of Species, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, Samuel Wilberforce, selfish genes, Zeus}

The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment

_{Neil Thomas
September 13, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it. Read More ›