Tag: history

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, adaptations, biology, conscious purposiveness, determinism, Edmund Ware Sinnott, environment, epigenetics, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution: The History of an Idea, freedom, George Levine, Georges Cuvier, history, homeostasis, inheritance, instinctive regulation, J. Scott Turner, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, Jessica Riskin, Lamarckism, Laurent Larson, Marion Lamb, motivation, neo-Darwinian synthesis, personality, Peter J. Bowler, Purpose and Desire, regeneration, Skeptic Magazine, teleology, The Power of Life, Yale University}

Re-evaluating Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

_{Michael Flannery
July 9, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 1, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Political Science
Tagged
, Alexander H. Stephens, Amazon Prime, America 250, American Founders, Catholic Integralism, Christian Fascism, citizens, Cornerstone Speech, Declaration of Independence, Emerging Right, Eric Metaxas, George Washington, history, Independence Day, Jeremy Boreing, Jeremy Boreing Show, Jews, John West, Newport, Revolution (book), Rhode Island, Rick Green, slavery, Tucker Carlson, Woke Right}

West, Boreing, Metaxas on the Woke Right Versus the Character of the Founders

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2026

Evolution, Political Science

3}

It’s surprising that no definite name has yet attached itself to this poisonous brew. Read More ›

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Date
June 6, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheists, Battle of the Big Bang, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Christianity, debates, Egyptian Exodus, history, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Justin Brierley, Nile, Phil Halper, philosophy, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Royal Astronomical Society, science and faith, Stephen Meyer, theology}

“ID Takes Center Stage”: Brian Miller on the Meyer/Halper Debate

_{Science & Culture
June 6, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

"Halper is one of the most formidable proponents of atheism, but he also admits that the discussion with Meyer was 'the toughest debate I’ve ever had.'" Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, biology, Birkbeck College, C. W. Howell, causation, Christian teaching, Christians, David Bentley Hart, demiurge, Designer Science, Edward Feser, formal cause, formal principle, gnosticism, God's Grandeur, history, intelligent design, intrinsic purpose, logos, materialism, metaphysics, natural processes, natural selection, philosophy, physics, Plato, primary sources, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Sternberg, scholars, Socrates, Sophia Connell, teleology, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Designer Science Misrepresents Aristotle and Ignores Church History

_{Brian Miller
May 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics

7}

C. W. Howell contrasts intelligent design with what he believes is Aquinas’ and Aristotle’s understanding of teleology (purpose) in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Scott Powell

Date
April 22, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, astronomy, biology, Charles Darwin, Cicero, computer code, cosmology, creator, digital symbols, discovery, DNA, fine-tuning, Florence, galactic habitable zone, Galileo Galilei, history, intelligence, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Karl Marx, living cell, Medicis, mind, Nicolaus Copernicus, Periclean Athens, physics, programmer, progress, Robert Boyle, self-destruction, The Story of Everything, theism, Thomas Huxley, war, William Shakespeare, written language}

In the Sweep of History, Two Great Competing Stories

_{Scott Powell
April 22, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

7}

We are on the threshold of greater discovery and flourishing than ever because of a quiet, but growing reconciliation between trust in science and trust in God. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 24, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Aristotle, athens, biology, C.S. Lewis, change over time, Democritus, DNA, dynamis, eidos, energeia, evolution, From Logos to Bios, George Gaylord Simpson, H. B. Whittington, Heraclitus, history, Jerusalem, Leucippus, Lev Berg, Malcolm Gordon, metaphysics, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, nomogenesis, philosophy, Pierre-Paul Grassé, Plato, Plotinus, potentiality, Pythagoras, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, tautology, Tertullian, The Selfish Gene, universal common descent, Western thought, Wynand de Beer}

Biology (and Cosmology) as Footnotes to Plato: A Review of Wynand de Beer

_{Michael Flannery
February 24, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Philosophy

8}

An important book by Wynand de Beer recaptures the wisdom of the ages and puts it into service not only of science, but of history, philosophy, and religion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 26, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, characters, divine design, foundational truths, history, intelligent design, logic, mind, Mr. Blue, reality, red doubter, science, smart blue one, technology, The God Proofs, YouTube videos}

New God Proofs Episode: Making Logic Adorable

_{David Klinghoffer
January 26, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

2}

The series for young and old, with its two recurring characters (the smart blue one, the red doubter), develops three foundational truths. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 8, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Education
Technology
Tagged
, [Un]Intentional, 1 Thessalonians, absolutism, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, Bible, Carl Rogers, ChatGPT, Christians, dopamine, Doug Smith, education, Edward Thorndike, Eighteenth Amendment, ELIZA program, Frederick Buechner, geography, history, Jacques Ellul, Jaime Escalante, Joseph Weizenbaum, Judeo-Christian tradition, large language models, Laurent Siklossy, liquor, Marshall McLuhan, math, mathematicians, Neil Postman, Open AI, Phillips Exeter Academy, programmed learning, Prohibition, Rogerian therapists, Sam Altman, software, St. Paul, Substack, technology, Turing test, William Jennings Bryan}

Against Anti-LLM and Anti-AI Absolutism

_{William A. Dembski
January 8, 2026

Computational Sciences, Science Education, Technology

39}

Doug Smith has been a software developer for three decades. He writes extensively about the impact of technology on culture. Read More ›

A 1940s style American kitchen, green. Generative AI

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Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Geology
Historical Sciences
Tagged
, climate, earth, Encyclopaedia Britannica, geologists, geology, history, humankind, humans, sediments, Stone Age}

As an Idea, the “Anthropocene” Era Is Dead

_{Science & Culture
November 25, 2025

Geology, Historical Sciences

3}

In a world where pundits regularly accuse us all of being too anthropocentric, the naming of a new geological epoch would enshrine that view forever in science. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, animals, atheists, codes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, digital code, DNA, double helix, evolution, faith, Francis Crick, genes, genetics, history, Human Zoos, information, intelligence, intelligent design, intelligent designer, James D. Watson, John West, language, nihilism, Nobel Prize, Plato's Revenge, race, Racism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, sequence hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, theism}

For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

_{David Klinghoffer
November 11, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

6}

Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›