Tag: Jacques Barzun

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abrahamic religions, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, brain, Charles Darwin, Corinthians, Darwinism (book), Edinburgh, Ernst Haeckel, frenemies, Genesis, George Romanes, Harvard University, historiography, human consciousness, Jacques Barzun, John Lukacs, Man’s Place in the Universe, materialism, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, Notebook C, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Psalms, Romans, Scripture, Social Environment and Moral Progress, teleology, The American Scholar, The Wedge of Truth, The World of Life}

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

_{Michael Flannery
October 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, eugenics, evolution, forced sterilization, From Darwin to Hitler, Germany, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harry Bruinius, Heidelberg University, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Jacques Barzun, James Moore, Janet Browne, Joseph Stalin, New Scientist, On the Origin of Species, Paul Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Racism, Richard Weikart, Slate, Social Darwinism, Stanley Jaki, The Descent of Man, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Thomas Malthus, United States, Victorian England}

Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
January 12, 2023

Evolution, Science

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The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Civil War, evolution, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gertrude Himmelfarb, history, Jacques Barzun, Michael Polanyi, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert E. Lee}

Aeschliman: The Charles Darwin/John Brown Connection

_{David Klinghoffer
March 30, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The year 1859, when Darwin changed the course of science and when John Brown rebelled and died, was a profound historical turning point. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, common descent, Copernican principle, fleas, Human Zoos, Jacques Barzun, John West, London, pandemic, plague, Plato, Racism, rats, scientism, Thomas Henry Huxley, Werner Heisenberg, X Club, Yersinia pestis}

Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley

_{Michael Flannery
September 14, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Charles Murray, God Hypothesis, Jacques Barzun, Jerusalem Post, Jordan Peterson, Judaism, materialism, New York Times, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Wagner, Ross Douthat, Scientific American, scientific atheism, scientism, scientists, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes, Tom Holland}

Meyer: “Twilight of the Godless Universe”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2021

Faith & Science, Physics

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What is that “different direction” that Steve Meyer refers to? It looks less like a twilight and more like a dawn. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute Press, Final Solution, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Jacques Barzun, James LeFanu, Karl Marx, Michael Flannery, Nazi Germany, New York Times, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Hofstadter, Richard Wagner, Richard Weikart, Signature in the Cell, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Restoration of Man}

Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2021

Bioethics

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Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
Michael D. Aeschliman

Date
January 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Back to Methuselah, Candida, Charles Dickens, Darwinism, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, Great Britain, Jacques Barzun, London, Ludwig van Beethoven, Malcolm Muggeridge, Russia, scientism, Shaw Chesterton series, The Restoration of Man, Victorian England}

Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism

_{Michael D. Aeschliman
January 8, 2021

Bioethics

4}

George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 23, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Down House, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, Janet Browne, Jews, Lord Acton, Oliver Cromwell, Protestants, Roman Catholic, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago}

#10 Story of 2020: Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb

_{Michael Flannery
December 23, 2020

Evolution

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It is comforting to know that Himmelfarb never lost her intellectual acuity or her moral passion on the subject. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Dickson White, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, City University of New York, Cornell University, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harry Bruinius, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Leo Strauss, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Brooklyn College, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, David Berlinski, David Quammen, E.O. Wilson, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, Janet Browne, Jews, Julian Huxley, Library of Congress, Oliver Cromwell, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, University of Chicago, Winston Churchill}

Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution”

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject. Read More ›