orangutan Type post Author Michael Flannery Date August 14, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology Michael Flannery August 14, 2018 Evolution, Intelligent Design 16 In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin's principal failing in developing his theory. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace 2 Type post Author Michael Flannery Date August 7, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignPhilosophy Tagged , __k-review, agent, causation, common descent, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, John West, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Neoplatonism, principle of utility, relic principle, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Edge of Evolution, The World of Life, theology Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same Michael Flannery August 7, 2018 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy 5 Wallace was the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. He later broke with Darwin over the question of teleology. Read More ›
Wallace_frog Type post Author Michael Flannery Date August 2, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent 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 7 Wallace’s formulation of evolution was quite incompatible with Darwin’s. His theory might be called intelligent evolution. Read More ›
kudzu Type post Author Michael Flannery Date May 4, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ann Gauger, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwin's Doubt, David Berlinski, David Premack, fossil record, intelligent evolution, J. Scott Turner, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Neo-Darwinism, Purpose and Desire, Quarterly Review of Biology, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Human Instinct, Thomas Nagel, Wendell Berry Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct Michael Flannery May 4, 2018 Evolution, Human Exceptionalism 11 Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›
