Tag: Erasmus Darwin

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
January 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Aquinas and Evolution, Aristotle, Catholic evolutionism, Catholic scientists, Catholicism and Evolution, Christianity, Congregation of the Index, Daniel Kuebler, Darwin and Doctrine, Darwinism, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, faith and science, First Things, Humani Generis, Kenneth W. Kemp, Knowledge and Evolution, neo-Platonism, Plato, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius IX, Raffaello Caverni, St. George Jackson Mivart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Stephen Barr, Steve Greene, Syllabus Errorum, The Origins of Catholic Evolutionism, Zoonomia}

Catholicism and Evolution: A Response to Stephen Barr

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
January 28, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

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These publications are far from telling, in Barr’s words, “the full story of how the Church did react to the theory of evolution.” Read More ›

Charles Robert Darwin bust sculpture, English naturalist, geologist, and biologist. Generative AI

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atomism, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, deification, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, faith and science, False Messiah, ID the Future, materialistic philosophy, natural selection, Neil Thomas, podcast, scientific materialism, Sir Charles Lyell, uniformitarianism}

Neil Thomas on the Internal Flaws and Historical Roots of Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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It might surprise you to learn that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection did not triumph on scientific grounds alone. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, autobiography, Charles Darwin, Cold War, correspondence, creation, creator, Darwinism, Darwinists, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, False Messiah, Friedrich Engels, intellectual history, Karl Marx, Marxism, Messiah, natural theology, Neil Thomas, radicalism, religion}

Darwin’s Doubts: A Scientist Betrayed by His Own Followers

_{Neil Thomas
October 28, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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I will argue that employing Darwin in this way is false twice over: First, it is not what Darwin made himself out to be. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, atheism, Basil Willey, Brights, C.S. Lewis, causality, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Daniel Dennett, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Lisbon earthquake, Meister Eckhart, natural selection, New Atheists, Noam Chomsky, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, Thomas Aquinas, truth, Unmoved Mover, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Allan Bloom, Anaxagoras, Biochemical Predestination, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, Dean Kenyon, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, Guillermo Gonzalez, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, Lord Byron, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Michael Polanyi, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Percy Shelley, Plato, Return of the God Hypothesis, RNA, Roger Olsen, Shannon information, Signature in the Cell, spaghetti, specified complexity, spontaneous generation, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, uniformitarianism, Walter Bradley}

Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2025

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, chemistry, Christianity, Dante Alighieri, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, intelligence, J. B. S. Haldane, John Milton, Lord Monboddo, Mars, race, science fiction, scientific racism, scientists, The Descent of Man, Third Reich, UNESCO}

The End of Scientific Racism

_{Daniel Witt
June 24, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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J. B. S. Haldane initially subscribed to some of the racism of the era — but, to his credit, his views shifted over time as more evidence came to light. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, apes, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary theory, females, humans, Lord Monboddo, monkeys, orangutans, Racism, special creation, species, speech, tails, The Descent of Man, women}

Monkey Men: The Fables That Inspired Evolutionary Theory

_{Daniel Witt
June 19, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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“For, that there are men with tails,” wrote Lord Monboddo, “…is a fact so well attested that I think it cannot be doubted.” Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, China, cooperation, COVID-19, Denis Noble, Erasmus Darwin, eugenics, evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joana Xavier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Marxism, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, Peter Corning, Stuart Kauffman, UNESCO, Zeitgeist}

Nature in the Image of Man: Introducing the New Social Darwinism

_{Daniel Witt
June 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

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Always, the initial social/intellectual change has come first, and the scientific paradigm shift has followed after. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Alexis de Tocqueville, animals, capitalism, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Europe, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biologists, food, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Margaret Sanger, Modern Synthesis, Neil Thomas, On the Origin of Species, paradigm shift, population, printing press, Social Darwinism, Thomas Malthus, United States, Winston Churchill, World War II, worldview, Zeitgeist}

Evolution Evolved to Mirror the Zeitgeist

_{Daniel Witt
June 4, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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By the mid 1800s, the mental climate had shifted, and the time was ripe for a new Darwin to craft a new Darwinism. Read More ›