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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 8, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, Charles Darwin, christian, conservative, Darwin Day in America, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Discovery Institute Press, history, intelligent design, John Magens Mello, John West, Michael Behe, natural selection, Phillip E. Johnson, socialist, teleology, The World of Life, Traipsing Into Evolution, University of Alabama, William Dembksi}

Discovering Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
August 8, 2018

Intelligent Design

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For those who wish to caricature the theory of intelligent design, Wallace becomes a very inconvenient historical figure. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Fleming, Alfred Russel Wallace, Archimedes, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, evolution, history, intelligent evolution, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, penicillin, R.H. Barfield, Sherrie Lyons, socialism, South America, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Kuhn, Victorians, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

_{Michael Flannery
August 2, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Wallace’s formulation of evolution was quite incompatible with Darwin’s. His theory might be called intelligent evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, An Elusive Victorian, Andrew Berry, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwinian, David Hume, evolution, history, John Duprétly, John Elof Boodin, John Herschel, John Tyndall, Martin Fichman, Max Horkheimer, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Overruling Intelligence, Paul Janet, Quarterly Review, scientism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, transmutation, William James, William Whewell, X Club}

The Outsider: Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

_{Michael Flannery
August 1, 2018

Evolution, History of Science

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As I asked in a previous post: Why is Alfred Russel Wallace today a comparatively little known figure next to Darwin? Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
July 20, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Geology
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Crustacea, Greeks, historiography, history, Manual of Geology, materialism, methodological naturalism, naturalism, paleontology, Paul Nelson, religion, Saturday Night Live, science, T.H. Huxley, theism, Yale University}

A Tendentious Appeal for Methodological Naturalism

_{Paul Nelson
July 20, 2018

Faith & Science, Geology, Philosophy

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Dawes and Smith say they’re simply describing (as a “matter of fact”) the history of science. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
July 11, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, alt-right, anti-Semitism, Darwinian theory, Europeans, From Darwin to Hitler, history, inequality, James Watson, Jews, Kevin MacDonald, Nazism, neo-Nazism, Nobel Prize, Racism, Richard Spencer, Steven Pinker}

Evolutionary Psychology Grapples with Racism and Anti-Semitism

_{Richard Weikart
July 11, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology

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Kevin MacDonald is trying to resurrect this troubling legacy of Darwinian theory. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
July 2, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, “consensus science”, cosmos, Darwinian evolution, Epicureanism, faith, history, intelligent design, intervention, Isaac Newton, John Farrell, Michael Ruse, naturalism, planets, religion, science, solar system, Warfare Thesis}

Commonweal Misrepresents Isaac Newton, Intelligent Design

_{Cornelius Hunter
July 2, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Newton was arguing from science, not religion. But that doesn’t fit the Epicurean mythos that religion opposes naturalism while science confirms it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 27, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, Civil War, farming, history, Industrial Revolution, Jay Richards, jobs, liberalism, robots, Rod Dreher, socialism, The Human Advantage, unemployment, United States, Utopia}

Richards: Using Artificial Intelligence to Sell the Welfare State

_{David Klinghoffer
June 27, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

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There’s an undoubted sense of crisis in the air. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 12, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, “consensus science”, alt-right, Anthem Film Festival, Bronx Zoo, Darwinism, documentary, FreedomFest, George Gilder, George Will, history, Human Zoos, John West, Las Vegas, Michael Shermer, Monkey House, Ota Benga, Pamela Newkirk, pygmy, Racism, Rich Lowry, Richard Weikart, Ross Douthat, Steve Forbes}

See Human Zoos in Las Vegas at FreedomFest!

_{David Klinghoffer
June 12, 2018

Evolution

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It’s not, how shall I say this, an audience guaranteed to be sympathetic to a critique of Darwinism and its social impact, even one as thoroughly researched and accurately told as this. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 8, 2018

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", American Scientific Affiliation, ASA, Big Bang, Charles Townes, concordism, deism, history, intelligent design, Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, Louis Pasteur, Nobel Prize, science, scientism, theistic evolution}

In Defense of Theistic Evolution, Denis Lamoureux Rewrites History

_{Jonathan Witt
June 8, 2018

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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Scientism’s grand progress narrative holds that as we learn more and more about the world, purely natural or material explanations inevitably will arise and grow stronger. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
May 16, 2018

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, bias, Communism, Eastern Europe, education, history, ideology, Jonathan Wells, Marxism, National Review, Pearson Education, pedagogy, Politics, public education, Ray Bohlin, Texas, textbooks, Zombie Science (book)}

Biased School Textbooks Aren’t Limited to Biology

_{Sarah Chaffee
May 16, 2018

Biology, Science Education

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Textbook publishers use their influence over kids and the appearance of neutrality to advance a set of strong biases. Read More ›