Tag: Herbert Spencer

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Amazon, astronomer, beavers, biochemists, biology, chance, Easter Island, elements, evolution, gods, helium, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, iron picks, Laurence Moran, life, necessity, New York City, Norman Lockyer, Occam’s razor, On the Origin of Species, parsimony, skyscraper, smartphones, special creation, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, stone hammers, Stonehenge, will}

How Did the Designer Do It?

_{Daniel Witt
July 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, adaptation, apocalypticism, book reviews, bottleneck, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, evolutionary biologist, Herbert Spencer, human extinction, MIT, persecution, revolutionary science, University of Melbourne, University of Toronto}

When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2024

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

6}

Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 5, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", abduction, adaptation, CELS, Charles Darwin, Columbia University, Current Biology, driver, equilibrium, Eric Anderson, gravity, Herbert Spencer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars, Mars rovers, molecular machines, New Zealand, orbits, planets, PNAS, Science Advances, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selective pressure, software, sponges, TEDx talk, University of Otago, University of Sydney, water}

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

_{David Coppedge
September 5, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
June 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, anthropologists, birth, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, feelings, Herbert Spencer, intelligence, intuition, males, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, nurturing, sexism, The Toxic War on Masculinity, women}

Darwin: Why Women Are Inferior

_{Nancy Pearcey
June 14, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

4}

Any list of toxic male behavior includes disrespect for women, and Darwin bears some responsibility for that. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", antifreeze, cattle, Charles Darwin, crustaceans, Dogs, evolution, evolutionary theory, fish, Herbert Spencer, horses, intelligent design, James Tour, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jonathan Wells, mollusks, natural selection, organisms, oxygen, oxymoron, pine tree, puppies, purpose, science of purpose, selection, sheep, speciation, Stephen Meyer, variations, water}

A New Look at Natural Selection

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 18, 2023

Biology, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, animals, anti-science, athens, C.S. Lewis, civil rights, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, eugenics, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, humans, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Nagasaki, scientific materialism, scientific racism, scientism, segregationists, sermons, Strength to Love, Texas}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 16, 2023

Bioethics, Culture, Faith & Science

5}

Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 25, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Creative Evolution, evolutionary theory, evolutionists, eyes, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, natural selection, New Atheists, Richard Dawkins, The Magician's Twin, William Paley}

Why C. S. Lewis Doubted the Creative Power of Natural Selection

_{John G. West
October 25, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Lewis first read Bergson in France during World War I while recovering from shrapnel wounds from the front-lines, and the experience on Lewis was profound. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
August 10, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur Balfour, C.S. Lewis, Dallas, Darwinian theory, discrimination, gravitation, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, Human Zoos, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Day, materialism, Nagasaki, progress, Racism, Science, scientific racism, scientism, Strength to Love}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
August 10, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Technology

5}

Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", adaptationist, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, empirical science, evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William A. Dembski, zoologists}

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Applied Eugenics, Darwin Industry, Darwinian evolution, Herbert Spencer, James Moore, Jeffrey O’Connell, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Richard Weikart, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

Some Additional Comments on Social Darwinism

_{Michael Flannery
April 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

6}

O’Connell and Ruse’s failure to engage deeply and fully with the historiography of this question makes it hard to take their effort seriously. Read More ›