Tag: Greek gods

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, childhood, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary psychology, Greek gods, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Martin Luther, Misia Landau, Robert Chambers, Samuel Haughton, Stephen Jay Gould, telos, Thomas Huxley, William Wordsworth}

Darwin’s Science and Storytelling

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

17}

His five-year voyage was undoubtedly an eye-opening rite of passage but perhaps not as foundational to his intellectual development as is sometimes proposed. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 4, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Epicurus, Greek gods, Matthew Arnold, On the Origin of Species, Oxford, Victorian England}

Darwin and Theomachy

_{Neil Thomas
March 4, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

4}

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin. Read More ›

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post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, Greek gods, history, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Prometheus, South America, Travel}

The Evolution of Natural Selection

_{Neil Thomas
January 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

3}

Remarkably, Darwin’s evolutionary ideas did not derive from his empirical observations in the South Seas or anywhere else. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Devil, Greek gods, Heaven, Hell, HMS Beagle, Jesus Christ, John Milton, Joseph Hooker, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, religion, Satan, Scripture, spontaneous generation, Titan}

Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species

_{Neil Thomas
October 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

15}

Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression. Read More ›

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post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, atomism, Charles Darwin, creation, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Greek gods, intelligent design, Lucretius, Romans}

Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate

_{Neil Thomas
August 5, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2017

Categories
Faith & Science
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Bible, C. John Collins, Canaanites, DNA, Greek gods, Greeks, Homer, journalism, Lebanon, science}

Canaanite DNA Episode Reveals Limits of Science and of Science Reporting

_{David Klinghoffer
August 4, 2017

Faith & Science, Science Reporting

4}

For science reporters, misinformation on a hot story was "Too good to check." Read More ›