Tag: French Revolution

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Date
October 21, 2025

Categories
Culture
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, A. N. Whitehead, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alistair McKitterick, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, David Galloway, Enlightenment, False Messiah, French Revolution, George Eliot, history, James Le Fanu, literature, Marxism, Michael Behe, Neil Thomas, Paul Beasley-Murray, Peter Jeavons, philosophy of nature, purpose, purposeless, Steve Fuller, Steve Laufmann, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Origin of Species, The Prelude, Victorian England, William Wordsworth}

New Book: Darwinism as “The God That Failed”

_{Science and Culture
October 21, 2025

Culture, Evolution, History of Science

8}

There is hope for renewal in a flanking movement against materialism — the spiritually charged philosophy of nature in the poetry of William Wordsworth. 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, mental climate, 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

12}

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 ›

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post

Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Age of Exploration, animals, Arthur Lovejoy, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, civilization, Darwinism, Edward Young, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary theories, F. W. J. Schelling, French Revolution, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, James Burnett, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Robinet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lord Monboddo, Michael Flannery, Night-Thoughts, P.T. Barnum, philosophers, Robert Richards, scientific paradigms, sea creaturess, The Discarded Image, The Great Chain of Being, University of Chicago, worldview, Zoonomia}

Before Darwin — How Evolution Evolved

_{Daniel Witt
May 28, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

13}

The soil was prepared — soon, seeds were sprouting. In roughly the third quarter of the 18th century, evolutionary theories of biology proliferated. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, Athena, Australopithecines, biological origins, butterfly, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Christmas, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, free speech, French Revolution, Genetics (journal), Günter Bechly, human brains, human origins, Human Origins Program, Human Zoos, humans, intelligent design, Jeffrey Schwartz, John West, mammals, mosasaurs, National Museum of Natural History, Niles Eldredge, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Racism, Richard Sternberg, Rick Potts, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, scientific racism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Washington DC, Zeus}

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

_{Casey Luskin
October 5, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

18}

Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, England, epiphany, France, French Revolution, Lake District, Mircea Eliade, natural theology, Natural Theology (book), nature, soul, spirituality, William Paley, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Darwin, Wordsworth, and Natural Theology

_{Neil Thomas
November 3, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

I give here a short sample of just one of the passages in “Tintern Abbey” where Wordsworth reports undergoing what might be described as a moment of epiphany. 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

8}

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
Brian Miller

Date
April 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, atomists, bees, Charles Darwin, dinosaurs, evolution, French Revolution, Georges Cuvier, giraffe’s neck, J.B.S. Haldane, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, paleontologists, Plato, punctuated equilibrium, scientific materialism, Scott Turner, swarm, tautology, teleology, vitalism}

Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 16, 2021

Biology, Evolution

6}

The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, academic freedom, American Revolution, arson, conservatives, Darwinism, David Coppedge, Douglas Axe, free speech, French Revolution, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, John Adams, looting, Marxism, Oregon, Portland, Richard Sternberg, rioting, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, The New Criterion, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Thomas Jefferson, Tony Woodlief, Wall Street Journal, Wesley Smith, William F. Buckley Jr., Willmoore Kendall, Yale University}

Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine

_{David Klinghoffer
September 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

7}

In Wesley J. Smith’s phrase, in the present cultural moment, we have witnessed “the French Revolution attacking the American Revolution.” 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, taboos, tattooing}

#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

4}

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, taboos, tattooing}

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

_{David Klinghoffer
November 25, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Science Education

4}

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