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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, animism, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, evolution, James Le Fanu, materialistic science, natural selection, natural theology, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, 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 ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, atomism, Charles Darwin, creation, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Greek gods, intelligent design, Lucretius, Romans}

Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate

_{Neil Thomas
August 5, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 21, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, censorship, conference, debate, economy, Enlightenment, free market, free speech, men, National Association of Scholars, post-modernism, science, Twitter, Wall Street Journal, Wikipedia, women}

To Create or Destroy, Via Twitter

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 21, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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Wood here is the creator. Teytelman is the would-be destroyer. He could work with people sympathetic to his view to hold an alternate conference. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 28, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, barbarism, Ben Shapiro, Columbia University, Communism, David Berlinski, Enlightenment, evolution, First World War, French Revolution, genocide, Human Nature (book), modern life, Nazism, Neanderthals, social status, Stanford University, Steven Pinker, Sunday Special}

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Shapiro, Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life

_{David Klinghoffer
December 28, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Science Education

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Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 25, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, barbarism, Ben Shapiro, Columbia University, Communism, David Berlinski, Enlightenment, evolution, First World War, French Revolution, genocide, Human Nature (book), modern life, Nazism, Neanderthals, social status, Stanford University, Steven Pinker, Sunday Special}

Ben Shapiro and David Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life

_{David Klinghoffer
November 25, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Science Education

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Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 30, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, academics, atheism, Christianity, Darwin Day, Darwinism, Enlightenment, French Revolution, Jerry Coyne, Nicene Creed, North Korea, Notre Dame Cathedral, public education, Quillette, religion, terrorism, universities, Western civilization}

Evolutionist Seethes as Duke Professor Analyzes Secular “Religion”

_{Michael Egnor
April 30, 2019

Faith & Science

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Staddon’s piece is topical, well written, and carefully reasoned. Coyne is of course free to disagree with Staddon’s conclusions. Read More ›

Golden Sunset Reflecting On A Breaking Ocean Wave

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Epistemology
History of Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotelianism, Big Bang, causation, Ed Feser, Enlightenment, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, knowledge, Maimonides, materialism, nature, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, philosophers, power, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, scientific revolution, scientists, Steven Pinker, Thomas Aquinas}

Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2018

Epistemology, History of Science, Metaphysics

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A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 2, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, Adolf Hitler, Bertrand Russell, Enlightenment, history, Hitler’s Religion, Richard Weikart, The Death of Humanity, Thomas Jefferson}

Weikart on C-SPAN: Jefferson, Russell, Hitler, Pianka, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
September 2, 2018

Bioethics

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Kudos to interviewer Peter Slen who is utterly unreadable as to his own attitudes on any on this. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 18, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, cognition, computation, computers, Enlightenment, Henry Kissinger, human beings, machines, money, personhood, Pinocchio, The Atlantic, toaster, transhumanism}

Kissinger: A.I. Machines Won’t “Think”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 18, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Transhumanists and other anti-human exceptionalists have been arguing of late that artificial-intelligence machines are destined to become so sophisticated that they will become “self-aware.” Read More ›