Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Erasmus Darwin

William Paley
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Neil Thomas
Date
June 19, 2023
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Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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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 ›
Darwin's finch
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Neil Thomas
Date
March 7, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage

Neil Thomas
March 7, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Read More ›
swimmer
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Neil Thomas
Date
January 19, 2023
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Anatomy
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
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On the Miracles of Physiological Design

Neil Thomas
January 19, 2023
Anatomy, Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science
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The book under review is a splendid and uniquely well-informed contribution to the debate about what is by all indices a theory in possibly terminal crisis. Read More ›
Thomas Malthus
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Neil Thomas
Date
January 16, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›
Voltaire
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Neil Thomas
Date
October 6, 2022
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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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 ›
Erasmus Darwin
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Neil Thomas
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October 5, 2022
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Evolution
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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 ›
Dawkins
Dawkins
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
October 4, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Darwin and the “New Atheists” 

Neil Thomas
October 4, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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There is surely some historical irony in the attempt to enlist Charles Darwin posthumously in defense of the atheist cause. Read More ›
Charles_Bradlaugh_Statue_Northampton
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Neil Thomas
Date
August 1, 2022
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Culture
Faith & Science
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Darwin and the British Secularist Tradition

Neil Thomas
August 1, 2022
Culture, Faith & Science
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The arresting historical vignette of Darwin’s fraught meeting with Bradlaugh and Aveling at his country retreat would doubtless make for a good TV docudrama. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943)
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
June 13, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

Neil Thomas
June 13, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind
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Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›
Samuel Haughton
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Neil Thomas
Date
June 10, 2022
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Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

Neil Thomas
June 10, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›

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