Tag: Great Britain

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alister McGrath, Annabel Lustig, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Darwinism, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Douglas Axe, evolution, Flower Power, Great Britain, Honest to God, John Robinson, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Michael Behe, mount improbable, natural selection, Richard Dawkins, Rudolf Bultmann, The Selfish Gene}

How Darwinism Dodges the Iceberg

_{Neil Thomas
January 10, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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When I viewed the stranded vessel in 1992 it looked remarkably well preserved, but of course functionally it was a mere “zombie” craft. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, convergent evolution, cynodonts, Early Jurassic, evolutionary icons, Fossil Friday (series), Gondwana, Great Britain, Jonathan Wells, mammals, reptiles, South America, University of Bristol}

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
November 1, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 16, 2023

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amsterdam, atheism, Christianity, Declaration of Independence, endowed by their creator, England, equal rights, equality, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Britain, Houston Christian University, human nature, image of God, imago Dei, Judaism, Museum of the Bible, Puritans, Richard Rorty, struggle for existence, Westerners}

Human Rights and the Image of God

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 16, 2023

Ethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, books, censorship, George Orwell, Great Britain, groupthink, intellectuals, intelligentsia, Joseph Stalin, literature, satire, Soviet Union, totalitarianism, USSR, Utopia, Winston Churchill}

Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 14, 2023

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

6}

The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous. Read More ›

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Date
February 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, culture, Darwin Comes to Africa, Discovery Institute Press, Great Britain, history, imperialism, John West, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, Racism, Social Darwinism, Summer Seminar}

John West Introduces Darwin Comes to Africa

_{Science and Culture
February 22, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

1}

The work explores the poisonous influence of Social Darwinism on British rule in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, colonialism, culture, Darwin Comes to Africa, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Great Britain, history, imperialism, Jeremiah, John West, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, paganism, podcast, scientific racism, Scripture, World Magazine}

Two Nigerian Authors and Darwin’s African Legacy

_{David Klinghoffer
February 19, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Missing from Chinua Achebe’s account is the role played by scientific racism in driving British imperialist policy in the country. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 22, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, authoritarianism, C.S. Lewis, Camille Griffin, Christmas, Christmas carols, COVID-19, Davida McKenzie, experts, government, Great Britain, Greta Thunberg, House Beautiful, Keira Knightley, Lily-Rose Depp, Matthew Goode, movies, pandemic, profanity, Republicans, Roman Griffin Davis, Russia, scientists, secularism, Silent Night, Sope Dirisu, spoilers, The Abolition of Man}

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

_{John G. West
December 22, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Medicine, Science

12}

The Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, Bible, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creed, faith, Great Britain, nature, Psalms, theology, UK Parliament, Victorian England, William Hale White, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth and the Faith of the Victorians

_{Neil Thomas
November 8, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

Even Charles Bradlaugh, the first atheist member of Parliament, was haunted by the psalmist’s reproach, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, Great Britain, HMS Beagle, natural theology, Natural Theology (book), nature, spirituality, William Paley, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Natural Revelation and Natural Selection: Wordsworth versus Darwin

_{Neil Thomas
November 2, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

2}

It has long been recognized that the many hymns to Nature in the poetic works of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) convey an implicit belief in natural theology. Read More ›

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Date
March 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, brain, Bristol University, engineers, Eric Anderson, Great Britain, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, mantis shrimp, muscles, Olympics, podcast, sling-jaw wrasse, Stuart Burgess}

Jaw Dropping: Nature’s Irreducibly Complex Linkage Mechanisms

_{Science and Culture
March 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Bristol University engineer Stuart Burgess goes deeper into the marvels of such sea creatures as the parrotfish, sling-jaw wrasse, and mantis shrimp. Read More ›