Denis Diderot Type post Author Neil Thomas Date January 6, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, daemons, Denis Diderot, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Fates, gods, harpies, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Herschel, Judeo-Christian tradition, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lucretius, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Robert Chambers, satyrs, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorians Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? Neil Thomas January 6, 2022 Evolution, Intelligent Design 6 Denis Diderot mooted the possibility of a creature evolving through habitual functioning into another form of life altogether. Read More ›
Epicurus Type post Author Neil Thomas Date August 5, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Anaximenes, ancient Greeks, atomism, Charles Darwin, creation, daemons, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Fates, Greek gods, harpies, intelligent design, Iphigenia, King Agamemnon, Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Romans, satyrs, Stephen Greenblatt 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 ›
