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Author
Jay W. Richards

Date
October 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, Arthur Balfour, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Columbus, evolution, Gifford lectures, J.B.S. Haldane, knowledge, Miracles (book), natural selection, naturalism, Oxford University, Plato, The Most Reluctant Convert, Victor Reppert}

C. S. Lewis and the Argument from Reason

_{Jay W. Richards
October 26, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Naturalists, like everyone else, generally trust their reason to lead them to truth. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago}

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

_{Neil Thomas
August 12, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, Declaration of Independence, gorilla, human origins, humans, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, John Keats, Judeo-Christian tradition, Justin Brierley, materialism, Miracles (book), neo-Darwinian theory, Noam Chomsky, Patricia Churchland, religion, Sapiens (book), Sapiens review, Unbelievable, William Graham, Yuval Noah Harari}

Reviewing Sapiens — Back to the Guy Who Lost His Faith Over Harari

_{Casey Luskin
August 5, 2021

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics

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Podcaster Sam Davis told Justin Brierley that what did it for him was reading Yuval Noah Harari’s idea that “humanity is a weaver of stories.” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, atomists, bees, Charles Darwin, dinosaurs, evolution, French Revolution, Georges Cuvier, giraffe’s neck, J.B.S. Haldane, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, paleontologists, Plato, punctuated equilibrium, scientific materialism, Scott Turner, tautology, teleology, vitalism}

Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 16, 2021

Biology, Evolution

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The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 25, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, genetic engineering, George Bernard Shaw, history, J.B.S. Haldane, Silicon Valley, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism

_{James A. Herrick
August 25, 2020

Bioethics

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I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur C. Clarke, C.H. Waddington, C.S. Lewis, Darwinism, eugenics, evolution, Francis Galton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, J.B.S. Haldane, science fiction, scientism, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man}

C. S. Lewis, Science, and Science Fiction

_{James A. Herrick
August 23, 2020

Bioethics, Technology

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Was C. S. Lewis an enemy of science? The apparent answer to this question is no. Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Technology
Tagged
, autonomy, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, dystopia, Francis Galton, George Bernard Shaw, human nature, J.B.S. Haldane, Julian Savulescu, liberalism, Oxford University, pharmaceuticals, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

The Abolition of Man and the Advent of the Posthuman

_{James A. Herrick
August 21, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Technology

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In Julian Savulescu’s view, rapidly advancing brain science will provide some of the data necessary to shaping a better human race. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
August 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Clarence Darrow, Dante, Darwinian theory, David Hume, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, J.B.S. Haldane, Jacques Maritain, John Dewey, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Malcolm Muggeridge, Marxists, Michael Polanyi, Pierre Duhem, Social Darwinism, T.S. Eliot, That Hideous Strength, William Jennings Bryan, William Shakespeare, Yuval Harari}

That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
August 16, 2020

Bioethics

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The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ants, athletes, fire, Fire-Maker series, gravity, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Mass, muscles, Steven Vogel, vertebrates}

For Fire and More, Humans Are Designed to Have Just the Right Strength

_{Michael Denton
August 10, 2020

Intelligent Design

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How is it that an ant appears proportionately so much stronger than a trained human weight lifter? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, African Savannah, American Scientist, Aristotle, fire, Fire-Maker series, hands, Homo floresiensis, humans, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, kilns, kinetic energy, metallurgy, metals, Richard Wagner, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Vogel}

Remarkably, Humans Are Just the Right Size to Make and Master Fire

_{Michael Denton
August 7, 2020

Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Only an organism of our dimensions and android design — 1.5 to 2 meters in height with arms about 1 meter-long ending in manipulative tools — can handle fire. Read More ›