Tag: Greece

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bullying, bureaucracy, Cambrian Explosion, Center for Science and Culture, Emily Sandico, Federal Government, Greece, Greek Orthodox Church, heresy, immaterial genome, John West, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, National Museum of Natural History, Ottoman Empire, parishioners, Plato's Revenge, priests, Redmond, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity}

“Recant!” A Sternberg Story that (Almost) Got Away

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The priest cited to Sternberg the experience of Greeks when they lived under harsh Turkish rule. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bondage, exercise, function, Greece, health, human flourishing, humans, Ikaria, lifespan, longevity, natural selection, naturalism, zoo}

Longevity as Evidence of Original Design

_{Eric Hedin
October 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

A general principle for any designed system is that it functions optimally when it is used or able to perform in the way it was originally designed. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
August 29, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, curiosity, eclipses, France, Greece, Jay Richards, lunar eclipses, natural phenomena, planetary habitability, science, technological advancement, The Privileged Planet, total solar eclipses}

Solar Eclipses May Have Spurred Both Scientific Curiosity and Economic Development

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
August 29, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

6}

A study explores the relationship between curiosity, triggered by natural phenomena such as solar eclipses, and economic development in pre-modern societies. Read More ›

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Date
June 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, chicken-and-egg problem, China, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute Press, Europe, evolution, Greece, human origins, ID the Future, podcast, Science After Babel, scientific revolution}

Listen: David Berlinski on Chickens, Eggs, Human Exceptionalism, and a Revolution

_{Evolution News
June 14, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

1}

Dr. Berlinski explores a chicken-and-egg problem facing origin-of-life research, and a blindness afflicting some evolutionists focused on human origins. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alphonse de Candolle, 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, Law of Correlation, 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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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 12, 2022

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science
Tagged
, children, civilization, copper, Greece, Homo naledi, Iraq, Lee Berger, Michael Marshall, Neanderthals, owls, pulses, Quartz, Rising Star Cave, Shanidar Cave, South Africa, University of Liverpool, Zagros Mountains}

Early Humans Were More Sophisticated than We Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 12, 2022

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science

6}

Neanderthals were not just downing raw hunks of meat 70,000 years ago, as many of us have assumed. Read More ›

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Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cesare Lombroso, criminologists, Darwinism, evolution, Greece, ID the Future, intelligent design, Italians, Italy, philosophers, podcast, Racism, Rome, Turin, Western civilization}

John West in Turin, Italy: Intelligent Design’s Roots and Fruit

_{Evolution News
November 30, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

1}

West celebrates Italy’s contributions to civilization but also calls attention to Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, who championed various racist ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, David Hull, Democritus, Edward Blyth, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Law of Correlation, Linnaean Society, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Irvine}

Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

18}

Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
April 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Eugene Wigner, Greece, intelligent design, intelligibility, Islam, Judeo-Christian tradition, mechanical philosophy, Medieval Europe, naturalism, theism, worldview}

How Does the Intelligibility of Nature Point to Design?

_{Bruce Gordon
April 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

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Albert Einstein famously remarked that “the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…[t]he fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.” Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 21, 2019

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, Ann Gauger, bullying, Darwin Devolves, graduate students, Greece, intelligent design, Islam, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, Michael Keas, Middle Ages, Pacific Northwest, Paul Nelson, Politics, postdocs, Richard Sternberg, Roger Bacon, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, Unbelievable, undergraduates}

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design — Unique Opportunity for the Sincerely Curious Learner

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 21, 2019

Biology, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

4}

Recently I spoke to a university senior who is a leader in a political club at her school. I wondered how things were going for the club. Read More ›