Tag: Friedrich Engels

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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

4}

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
December 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Revolution, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Cicero, Darwinism, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, faith and science, Friedrich Engels, Galen, Lucretius, Matt Ridley, natural selection, Plato, Taking Leave of Darwin, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus}

Three Thousand Years of Darwinism

_{Neil Thomas
December 23, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

13}

I began to suspect that Darwinism was being taught at school in a somewhat philosophically decontextualized way, lacking historical background. Read More ›

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post

Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, Asa Gray, biologists, butterflies, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, final cause, Friedrich Engels, Harvard University, historians, Karl Marx, mimicry, purpose, teleology, William Graham}

Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

_{Richard Weikart
December 16, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

_{Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

16}

It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

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post

Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, capitalism, Christianity, Communism, creationism, Darwinism, evolution, Friedrich Engels, fundamentalists, history, immorality, Indiana University, Karl Marx, morality, Politics, power}

Rejecting Evolution Because of Anti-Communism? Charge by Cornell U Press Book Fails to Detonate

_{Richard Weikart
June 1, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Weinberg takes a historically accurate claim — that many creationists over the years blamed communism on evolution — and then blows it way out of proportion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, academia, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, Christianity, economics, Friedrich Engels, John Milton, Karl Marx, Marxism, Michael Egnor, natural selection, Paradise Lost, power, Walter Bradley Center}

Darwinism and Critical Theory — The Connection

_{David Klinghoffer
January 26, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

"Strange that it may seem, Darwin plays a central role in this drama. Karl Marx himself credited Darwin with much of his basic insight into human history." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Metaphysics
Tagged
, act, Aristotle, Artificial Selection, atheism, censorship, Communism, Darwinism, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, evolution, Expelled (movie), Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, materialism, potency, purpose, V.I. Lenin, violence}

Darwinism as Hegelian Dialectics Applied to Biology

_{Michael Egnor
September 22, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Metaphysics

6}

Nineteenth-century Darwinism was much more than a revolutionary scientific theory. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Chicago, civilization, Communism, Darwinian evolution, democracy, Edward Feser, freedom, Friedrich Engels, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, lockdown, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, Nazism, npr, paralysis, Plato, Portland, tyranny}

Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment

_{David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2020

Evolution

5}

The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 23, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, evolution, Friedrich Engels, Hannah Arendt, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Michael Egnor, movement, Nazis, Russia, The Origins of Totalitarianism, totalitarianism}

How Darwin Shaped the Young Joseph Stalin

_{David Klinghoffer
July 23, 2020

Evolution

2}

Jonathan Wells notes that a figure in the totalitarian tradition was influenced by evolution from a very early age. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, China, COVID-19, Darwinism, evolution, Friedrich Engels, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, looting, movement, natural law, natural selection, Nazis, pandemic, paralysis, rioting, Russia, The Origins of Totalitarianism, totalitarianism, vandalism}

Totalitarianism Is Darwinism Applied to Politics

_{Michael Egnor
July 20, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

7}

Atomization is the radical isolation of each individual from every other individual. Atomization breaks the bonds that hold society in its traditional shape. Read More ›