Darwin statue Type post Author Neil Thomas Date September 13, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, animism, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, evolution, Hesiod, James Le Fanu, Mary Midgley, materialistic science, natural selection, natural theology, Neo-Darwinism, Odysseus, On the Origin of Species, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, Samuel Wilberforce, selfish genes, Zeus The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment Neil Thomas September 13, 2021 Evolution, Faith & Science 10 If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it. Read More ›
Frankenstein Type post Author Neil Thomas Date August 12, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionLife SciencesOrigin of Life Tagged , Aeschylus, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, Hesiod, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, re-animation, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step Neil Thomas August 12, 2021 Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life 12 The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›
Seneca Type post Date July 31, 2020 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, artificial intelligence, C.S. Lewis, Dan Brown, future, Hesiod, history, ID the Future, john lennox, Max Tegmark, MIT, mythology, Oxford University, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, science fiction, theology, transhumanism Oxford Mathematician John Lennox Reviews AI Predictions Through the Ages Science and Culture July 31, 2020 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 1 With Robert J. Marks, Dr. Lennox discusses AI’s cousin, transhumanism, its surprising history, and its potentially very dark future. Read More ›