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February 22, 2023

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Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
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, 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 & Culture
February 22, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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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, 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

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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, Christmas, COVID-19, experts, government, Great Britain, Greta Thunberg, movies, pandemic, Republicans, Russia, scientists, secularism, The Abolition of Man}

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

_{John G. West
December 22, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Medicine, Science

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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, faith, Great Britain, nature, Psalms, theology, UK Parliament, Victorian England, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth and the Faith of the Victorians

_{Neil Thomas
November 8, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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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

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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, Stuart Burgess}

Jaw Dropping: Nature’s Irreducibly Complex Linkage Mechanisms

_{Science & Culture
March 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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 ›

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Date
March 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Bristol University, engineer, Eric Anderson, fish, Great Britain, ID the Future, intelligent design, jaws, misuse, nature, University of Cambridge}

Stuart Burgess: Biology’s Designs Tutor Our Top Engineers

_{Science & Culture
March 9, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The human knee is still well ahead of what even the most advanced human engineers have managed. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 29, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Geology
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Charles Lyell, Darwinism, evolution, Great Britain, Isaac Newton, Lord Byron, mathematician, On the Origin of Species, uniformitarianism, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Newtonian Metanarrative

_{Neil Thomas
January 29, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Geology

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People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 17, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, authoritarianism, C.S. Lewis, Christmas, COVID-19, experts, government, Great Britain, Greta Thunberg, movies, pandemic, Republicans, Russia, scientists, secularism, The Abolition of Man}

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

_{John G. West
December 17, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

12}

The new 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 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle, Darwinian theory, evolution, freedom of conscience, Great Britain, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), intelligent design, nature, paradigm shift, Paul Davies, Scopes Monkey Trial, Tennessee, Thomas Kuhn, United States, Unmoved Mover}

Intelligent Design and Natural Theology

_{Neil Thomas
November 12, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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How just is the imputation of “neo-creationist” tendencies to members of the intelligent design community? Read More ›