Tag: John Milton

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, chemistry, Christianity, Dante Alighieri, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, intelligence, intelligence tests, J. B. S. Haldane, J. R. R. Tolkien, John Milton, Lord Monboddo, Mars, Naomi Mitchison, Possible Worlds and Other Essays, race, science fiction, scientific racism, scientists, The Descent of Man, Third Reich, UNESCO}

The End of Scientific Racism

_{Daniel Witt
June 24, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

10}

J. B. S. Haldane initially subscribed to some of the racism of the era — but, to his credit, his views shifted over time as more evidence came to light. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Connop Thirlwall, David Newsome, Death and the Ploughman, Enlightenment, evil, John Henry Newman, John Herschel, John Milton, John Ray, methodological naturalism, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, problem of pain, suffering, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, theodicy, Thomas Carlyle, William Paley}

Darwin and the Problem of Pain

_{Neil Thomas
September 11, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

19}

For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
December 6, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, An Introduction to Systems Biology, beauty, biography, Brazil, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, Emily Reeves, evolution, intelligent design, intelligibility, John Milton, natural selection, nature, purposiveness, Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, Systems Biology, Texas A&M, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, understanding, Uri Alon, William Shakespeare, wonder}

Nature’s Wonder — A Tale of Two Scientists

_{Stephen Dilley
December 6, 2023

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Charles Darwin described an atrophied sensitivity to “grandeur” that he noted in himself. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
March 28, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Dante, Discovery Institute Press, G.K. Chesterton, George Gilder, Holocaust, Homo sapiens, John Milton, knowledge, Malcolm Muggeridge, Michael D. Aeschliman, morality, relativism, Russell Kirk, scientism, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Restoration of Man, Winston Churchill}

Michael D. Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis and Scientism

_{Peter Biles
March 28, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Technology

5}

Scientism claims that science alone dictates the truth, although this system of thought depends on non-scientific reasons to come to such a conclusion. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, China, Christianity, Eucharist, Europe, Godhead, history, India, Jesus Christ, John Keats, John Milton, Middle Ages, Middle East, nature, Paradise Lost, poets, Protestant Reformation, Roman Catholic, Thomas Aquinas, William Hale White, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

The Apotheosis of William Wordsworth

_{Neil Thomas
November 7, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

What many responded to in Wordsworth’s evocations of Nature’s sacrality was his restoration of a partially obscured link between Nature and the divine. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, creation, E Conchis Omnia, Enlightenment, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, French Revolution, Jacques Monod, John Milton, Lucretius, New Atheists, Paradise Lost, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, spontaneous generation, theodicy, Thomas Paine}

Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Consideration of Erasmus Darwin’s writings suggests that his unbelief could well have been father to the thought in the matter of his evolutionary speculations. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Devil, Greek gods, Heaven, Hell, HMS Beagle, Jesus Christ, John Milton, Joseph Hooker, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, religion, Restoration, Satan, Scripture, South Sea Islands, spontaneous generation, Titan}

Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species

_{Neil Thomas
October 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

15}

Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, academia, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Critical Theory, economics, Friedrich Engels, John Milton, Karl Marx, Lucifer, Marxism, Michael Egnor, natural selection, Paradise Lost, power, Walter Bradley Center}

Darwinism and Critical Theory — The Connection

_{David Klinghoffer
January 26, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

"Strange that it may seem, Darwin plays a central role in this drama. Karl Marx himself credited Darwin with much of his basic insight into human history." Read More ›

African savanna with mountain in national wild park

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 13, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Africa, Bible, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinian materialism, English literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H.G. Wells, human brain, human origins, Jacques Derrida, John Milton, John Updike, Michael Keas, monolith, Robert Ardrey, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick, Texas, The Time Machine, Unbelievable, weapons}

Darwinism, Storytelling, and the Futurist ET Myth

_{Jonathan Witt
December 13, 2020

Bioethics

5}

The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 9, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, atheism, Brights, cosmos, David Klinghoffer, eugenics, Ezekiel, Gaia, hate, human body, human life, human mind, Isaiah, John Milton, mankind, misanthropy, New Atheists, Paradise Lost, pride, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud}

Milton and the Psychology of Materialism

_{Michael Egnor
July 9, 2019

Biochemistry, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

4}

It is basically the denial of human exceptionalism. That is, it is hatred of man, in practically every way imaginable. Read More ›