Tag: intellectual history

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, autobiography, Charles Darwin, Cold War, correspondence, creation, creator, Darwinism, Darwinists, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, False Messiah, Friedrich Engels, intellectual history, Karl Marx, Marxism, Messiah, natural theology, Neil Thomas, radicalism, religion}

Darwin’s Doubts: A Scientist Betrayed by His Own Followers

_{Neil Thomas
October 28, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

4}

I will argue that employing Darwin in this way is false twice over: First, it is not what Darwin made himself out to be. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, George Eliot, history, HMS Beagle, intellectual history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Journal of Researches, literature, Lucretianism, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Misia Landau, Origin of Species, philosophy, Plato, Renaissance, seafaring, Tom Wolfe}

Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist: Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea

_{Neil Thomas
September 25, 2025

Arts, Evolution

19}

Today we would of course brand both Faust and the Alchemist fantasists or “mad scientists” of the first order. Was Darwin prone to such wishful thinking? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, BIO-Complexity, Charles Babbage, closed system, computer science, Conservation of Information, Edgar Allan Poe, Energy, entropy, information, intellectual history, large language models, Law of Conservation of Information, Leonard Susskind, Peter Medawar, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert J. Marks II, search}

Conservation of Information: The History of an Idea

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2025

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Conservation of information” is a term that appears in both the physics and the computer science literature. Read More ›

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Author
Melissa Cain Travis

Date
January 18, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, cosmos, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, intellectual history, intelligent design, intelligibility, Johannes Kepler, natural theology, nature, transparency}

In Dallas, Learn About Uncanny Synchronicity Behind the Comprehensibility of the Cosmos

_{Melissa Cain Travis
January 18, 2024

Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

1}

The idea that the rational transparency of our cosmos has design implications came to fruition with the natural theology and astronomy of Johannes Kepler. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

20}

Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›

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Date
September 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, human origins, ID the Future, intellectual history, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, Michael Keas, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, podcast}

How Evolutionary Theory’s Co-Founder Broke with Darwin

_{Science & Culture
September 18, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Unlike Darwin, Wallace thought that biology, chemistry, and cosmology proclaimed clear evidence of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, biotechnology, book reviews, defining terms, evolution, film, film review, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, intellectual history, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, movies, panspermia, satire, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Frankenstein and His Offspring

_{Neil Thomas
April 13, 2022

Biology, Origin of Life, Technology

3}

"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 9, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthony Flew, Aristotle, atheism, British Rationalist Association, Cicero, Cristian Bandea, DNA, electron microscope, Epicurus, Eric Metaxas, First Cause, Galen, intellectual history, Irreducible Complexity, Is Atheism Dead?, Lucretius, Paul Davies, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Plato, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Return to the God Paradigm (series)}

Nothing New Under the Sun

_{Neil Thomas
December 9, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

7}

The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 10, 2017

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Philosophy
Tagged
, __nedited, anti-humanism, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Corrosive Idea, Darwinism, Freudianism, humanism, ideas have consequences, intellectual history, Karl Marx, Marxism, materialism, Sigmund Freud}

Darwin, Marx, and Freud: The Genealogy of “Posthumanism”

_{David Klinghoffer
January 10, 2017

Ethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Philosophy

2}

Exactly how posthumanism cashes out in contemporary cultural terms is the subject of a detailed study with new polling data by John G. West. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
April 29, 2012

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Age of Reason, deism, design intuition, history of id, intellectual history, watchmaker, William Paley}

Reason, not Revelation: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Watchmaker

_{Mike Keas
April 29, 2012

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

9}

"I admire the workman in the details of his work, and I am quite certain that all these wheels only work together in this fashion for some common end which I cannot perceive." Read More ›