Tag: Gertrude Himmelfarb

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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

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

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, eugenics, evolution, forced sterilization, From Darwin to Hitler, Germany, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Heidelberg University, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Jacques Barzun, James Moore, Janet Browne, Joseph Stalin, New Scientist, On the Origin of Species, Paul Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Racism, Richard Weikart, Slate, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Malthus, United States, Victorian England}

Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
January 12, 2023

Evolution, Science

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The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Civil War, evolution, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gertrude Himmelfarb, history, Jacques Barzun, Michael Polanyi, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert E. Lee}

Aeschliman: The Charles Darwin/John Brown Connection

_{David Klinghoffer
March 30, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The year 1859, when Darwin changed the course of science and when John Brown rebelled and died, was a profound historical turning point. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute Press, Final Solution, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Jacques Barzun, Karl Marx, Michael Flannery, Nazi Germany, New York Times, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Wagner, Richard Weikart, Signature in the Cell, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Restoration of Man}

Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2021

Bioethics

4}

Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 23, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Down House, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, Janet Browne, Jews, Protestants, Roman Catholic, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago}

#10 Story of 2020: Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb

_{Michael Flannery
December 23, 2020

Evolution

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It is comforting to know that Himmelfarb never lost her intellectual acuity or her moral passion on the subject. Read More ›

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Date
January 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, "survival of the fittest", Andrew McDiarmid, Charles Darwin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, history, ID the Future, Michael Flannery, On the Origin of Species, podcast, scholarship, science}

Flannery: A Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Pioneering Darwin Critic

_{Science and Culture
January 16, 2020

Evolution

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Gutsy, bold, and precise in her scholarship, she saw Darwin’s theory as offering convenient “scientific” support for class-divided, untrammeled survival-of-the-fittest industrial competition. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Cornell University, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Brooklyn College, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, David Berlinski, E.O. Wilson, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, Janet Browne, Jews, Julian Huxley, Library of Congress, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, University of Chicago, Winston Churchill}

Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution”

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 24, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, David Klinghoffer, Edinburgh, evolution, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harriet Martineau, John Murray, materialists, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Paul Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, rhetoric, The Descent of Man, transmutation}

Darwin’s Origin of Species — Some Historical Reflections 160 Years Later

_{Michael Flannery
November 24, 2019

Evolution

6}

Surely the “iconic” status of Darwin’s book could never have been predicted by either the author or his publisher. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 16, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Commentary, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, Firing Line, Gertrude Himmelfarb, intelligent design, Irving Kristol, James A. Shapiro, Kevin Williamson, National Review, Phillip E. Johnson, Royal Society, Signature in the Cell, Texas, The Information Enigma, Tom Wolfe, Wesley Smith, Whittaker Chambers, William F. Buckley Jr.}

Kevin Williamson on Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
January 16, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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No intellectually challenging idea has attracted more uninformed criticism than ID. Read More ›