Taking Leave of Darwin Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 15, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Cicero, common sense, David Hume, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, Geoffrey Chaucer, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Lucretius, materialism, natural selection, Plato, Victorian England How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin: A Coda Neil Thomas November 15, 2021 Evolution, Faith & Science 2 After seeing my recent book through to publication, I began to experience a certain gnawing feeling. Read More ›
Darwin statue Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 12, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Aristotle, Darwinian theory, evolution, freedom of conscience, Great Britain, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), intelligent design, nature, paradigm shift, Paul Davies, Scopes Monkey Trial, Tennessee, Thomas Kuhn, United States, Unmoved Mover Intelligent Design and Natural Theology Neil Thomas November 12, 2021 Evolution, Intelligent Design 6 How just is the imputation of “neo-creationist” tendencies to members of the intelligent design community? Read More ›
Lucretius Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 11, 2021 CategoriesCosmologyIntelligent DesignPhysical Sciences Tagged , Copernican Revolution, cosmic rays, earth, evolution, heliocentric model, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), humankind, intelligent design, Lucretius, Michael Denton The Stars Above Us Neil Thomas November 11, 2021 Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences 3 What Lucretius once termed in the widest sense “the nature of things” is no respecter of modern scientific conventions. Read More ›
Charles Darwin Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 10, 2021 CategoriesChemistryEvolutionEvolutionary PsychologyPaleontology Tagged , Charles Darwin, evolution, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Louis Pasteur, macromutations, Mars, micromutations, Niles Eldredge, Paul Davies, sociobiology, Stanley Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Viking mission, William Harvey Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology) Neil Thomas November 10, 2021 Chemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Paleontology 7 Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›
young Darwin statue Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 8, 2021 CategoriesBiologyCosmologyEvolutionIntelligent DesignPhysics Tagged , Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, cognitive dissonance, evolution, Fred Hoyle, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), intelligent design, materialists, On the Origin of Species, public opinion, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker Darwin’s Many Doubts Neil Thomas November 8, 2021 Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics 5 Did the admirably candid Charles Darwin himself really believe all that he wrote about evolution? Read More ›
Charles Darwin Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 6, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , animal husbandry, biologists, Charles Darwin, Communism, Darwinism, East Germany, evolution, genetic code, Homo sapiens, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), missing links, Nazis, Piltdown Man, propaganda Darwin on Trial (Again) Neil Thomas November 6, 2021 Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology 4 My attempt to disentangle this “case” forensically was to lead me on what was often a surprising journey of discovery. Read More ›
cafe-darwin-jannik-2400x1672 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 5, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Charles Darwin, Christian de Duve, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolution, fundamentalists, gravity, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, john lennox, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, natural selection, Nobel Prize, Peter Atkins, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, William A. Dembski How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin Neil Thomas November 5, 2021 Evolution, Intelligent Design 5 I had once assumed that any opposition to Darwin must necessarily be confined to the ranks of such as Biblical fundamentalists. Read More ›